Quotes About Realist

I'm a realist, I understand football and situations in the game.

Prince Philip prides himself on being a realist. He knows he is not going to live for ever.

If I can see my own recollections, like many adolescents, I was a Platonic realist. I believed in the reality of ideas, of the big nouns, and believed that one's life was determined by the ideas of the true, the good, and the beautiful which one held.

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer. One orients one's attitude toward the world either by God or by what the world is. The former gives as much security as the latter, in that one knows how one stands.

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.

Look, I'm a realist and I just had my heart ripped out. I don't want to be involved with anyone right now. You've been so kind to me and I don't know why. It's just that things like this don't happen in real life. Prince Charming doesn't come to the rescue all the time. Most of the time, he's too busy with perfect freakin' Cinderella and her teeny-tiny perfect feet to even notice the rest of us.

Your such a cynic. Exactly, thats what you call a guy who tells you the truth.

Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival. Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world. Jesus is not an impractical idealist: he is the practical realist.

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.

a cynic is only a term used by an idealist to describe a realist.

He once said: "In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles."3 To put it at its simplest: In Egypt, where the source of life was the Nile, you looked down. In Israel, where the source of life is rain, you had no choice but to look up.

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called.

I]maginability must not be made the test for ontology. The realist claim is that the scientist is discovering the structures of the world; it is not required in addition that these structures be imaginable in the categories of the macroworld.

I'm painfully a realist but ruthlessly an optimist. I think maybe it's because of my faith - I've always got the hope that there is something out there to make it all worthwhile.

Because death is the only reality, and I'm a realist.

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. The future value of every investment is a function of its present price.

El mercado es un péndulo que oscila constantemente entre un optimismo insostenible (que hace que las acciones sean demasiado caras) y un pesimismo injustificado (que hace que sean demasiado baratas). El inversor inteligente es un realista que vende a optimistas y compra a pesimistas. E

Sharon was a realist. He recognized, as did Ben-Gurion and Dayan, that the Arabs had as legitimate a claim to this land as we did, and that they possessed pride and courage and anger, against which no rejoinder existed except the sword.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. So said Voltaire, the realist.

I do think that science fiction ideas are best expressed through visual media like film and TV. Realist literature depicts things that we have seen in life, but science fiction is different: what it depicts exists only in the author's imagination. When it comes to science fiction, the written word is inadequate.

In love' is for the romantic. 'Love' for the realist.