Optimistic Realist Quotes

#1. All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' - which is just another way of saying that you can't.

Richard Feynman

#2. A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.

Cameron Sinclair

#3. But I ... I don't want to do something to you that you don't at least at some level want me to do.

Laurelin Paige

#4. My childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn't look like it would last until I was grown up.

Tove Ditlevsen

#5. You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.

Tom Petty

#6. I'd be glad to go out on a limb with those
Who want nothing beyond what the wind bestows,
Were I not bound to roots, dug in deep to bear
Never being done grasping for light and air

X.J. Kennedy

#7. Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

Tony Blair

#8. I can be fairly optimistic, but I'm probably more a realist, I think. I mean, optimism's an interesting quality, isn't it, because I'm always slightly dubious as to what's behind it?

Guy Pearce

#9. If God forgave you, then forget your past and renounce it

Sunday Adelaja

#10. An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

Cameron Sinclair