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Realist Quotes

1.
The visionary is the only realist.
Federico Fellini

Authors on Realist Quotes: Martin Luther King, Jr. Fyodor Dostoevsky George Carlin Stephen King Quentin Crisp Elisabeth Rohm Joan Baez Nancy Spain Bill Maher Paul Christopher James Earl Jones Roger Moore Benjamin Graham Frances Parkinson Keyes Richard Flanagan Warren W. Wiersbe Adam Carolla Hillary Clinton Mae West Aretha Franklin Peter Drucker Nikolai Berdyaev Studs Terkel David Eddings Nick Frost Soe Hok Gie Wayne Dyer Adam Dunn Karen Russell Arthur Symons Pierre Trudeau Stefano Benni David Petraeus
2.
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.
Benjamin Graham

3.
If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
Quentin Crisp

4.
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
Arthur Symons

5.
I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, "No, you just have anxiety."
Jessica Chastain

6.
I'm not an idealist anymore, I'm a bitter realist.
Soe Hok Gie

7.
In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

8.
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist.
George Carlin

9.
Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme.
Esther Perel

10.
A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned.
Warren W. Wiersbe

11.
I'm a realist. And realists don't fool themselves.
Adam Dunn

12.
A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

13.
There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.
Dean Koontz

14.
The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

15.
One cannot afford to be a realist.
Albert Bandura

16.
Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

17.
A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.
Frances Parkinson Keyes

18.
Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.
Nikolai Berdyaev

19.
Cynical is a fool's word for realist.
Paul Christopher

20.
I am a mixture of idealist and realist.
Roger Moore

21.
A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war of ideals?
Michael Shaara

22.
I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.
Hillary Clinton

23.
I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.
Tom Hiddleston

24.
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
Bertrand Russell

25.
What reality was ever made by realists?
Richard Flanagan

26.
I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.
Aretha Franklin

27.
I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.
James Earl Jones

28.
It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to me, a misrepresentation.
Karen Russell

29.
Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom.
William C. Wright

30.
"Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists.
Stefano Benni

31.
I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances.
Lee Kuan Yew

32.
I'm not sexist, I'm just a realist.
Adam Carolla

33.
You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.
David Eddings

34.
I don't want to say that in a place that's negative about what the fear is. I just want to be a realist.
Ava DuVernay

35.
There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.
Daniel Woodrell

36.
I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.
Octavia Spencer

37.
Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.
Stephen King

38.
Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.
Carolyn Heilbrun

39.
I am indeed a moral realist.
Torbjorn Tannsjo

40.
It always felt like I had to be a realist.
Jack Tatum

41.
I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.
Elisabeth Rohm

42.
I am a great realist in all aspects of life. Whatever I can do ... here it is.
Olga Korbut

43.
I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.
Bill Maher

44.
He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.
Stephen King

45.
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic" has more than one meaning, and I see how I could be seen as cynical. "George, you're cynical." Well, you know, they say if you scratch a cynic you find a disappointed idealist. And perhaps the flame still flickers a little, you know?
George Carlin

46.
I'm a realist and I always have been.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee

47.
In love' is for the romantic. 'Love' for the realist.
Nancy Spain

48.
[ 'American Dream' ] probably will [go] somewhere in Europe. You get 3000 entries [to] Sundance, and how many movies get [screened]? So, I'm a realist. I'm very much realistic in terms of if this movie will be released in the States. Probably not.
Janusz Kaminski

49.
An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.
Peter Drucker

50.
Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.
Leni Zumas