Top 100 Quotes About Be Realistic
#1. The first step in building a solid, dependable attitude is to be realistic, not only about your inherent capabilities, but also about how well you are playing to those capabilities on any given day.
Byron Nelson
#3. I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it's not realistic you run into kids running around shooting people and not realizing the consequences.
Darren Aronofsky
#4. I base the roles I choose depending on the characters. That's just how I'm gonna run my career. So if it's a good role I'm gonna take it whether it be fantasy, or whether it be realistic or fiction, anything.
Josh Hutcherson
#5. I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.
Gwen Stefani
#6. The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.
Rick Hansen
#7. One of the most important things I'm glad we did and am proud of is that we don't have any real grass on our property. It might not be realistic to ask people to pull out their grass, but we'll never have to think about it. We used Smart Grass, and I think it looks beautiful.
Lisa Ling
#8. If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it ... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.
Alexander Calder
#9. Whenever you look back on life, be positive Whenever you look at the present, be realistic Whenever you look at the future, the bold
Ricky Manna
#10. People will kill you over time. And how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases like 'be realistic'.
Dylan Moran
#11. Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make it. But there's a part of you that's got to be realistic and say: 'Look, it might not happen to me.'
Sam Claflin
#12. I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.
Vin Scully
#13. As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list.
John Eliot
#14. Be realistic we're told. Listen to feedback. Play well with others. Compromise. Well, what if the "other" party is wrong? What if conventional wisdom is too conservative? It's this all-too-common impulse to complain, defer, and then give up that holds us back.
Ryan Holiday
#15. People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realistic!'
[What It Is (2009)]
Dylan Moran
#16. Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.
Vera Wang
#17. You have to shelf your excitement and be realistic about your internal and external strengths and weaknesses. (p.70)
Injap Sia
#18. If you're trying to be realistic and bring real life to the screen, you are going to have different elements. That's what I'm trying to do. As I make the movie, different elements come in naturally.
Takashi Miike
#19. We should always be realistic about our needs, steer clear of this over indulgence and self imposed poverty nonsense.
Auliq Ice
#21. I try to be realistic and pragmatic. I have a lot of hope for humanity as a species, but obviously as individuals we can be extremely flawed. We may have to go through some very terrible times in the near future, even if we ultimately survive as Homo sapiens.
Annalee Newitz
#22. People have to be realistic, or the dream just drags on.
Adam Carolla
#23. I trained as hard as I could, I ran as much as I could, I sparred hard, I did everything right. I did everything I could possibly do at the age when I could fight. You have to be realistic; you can't say, 'Oh, I am smarter now, older and I can punch harder.' You think you can, but you can't.
Micky Ward
#25. I try to be realistic, listen to my body and know when to slow down.
Christie Rampone
#26. One has to be realistic. One's concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory of unreasoned belief. That's very important.
Amartya Sen
#28. I do hope to die with a quiet heart . I know that may not be realistic.
Marilynne Robinson
#29. I've noticed...that whenever a man is asked to be realistic he is being asked to betray something in which he believes. It is the favorite argument of those who believe that only the end matters, not the means.
Louis L'Amour
#30. Let's be realistic - 90% of superheroes are male. Personally, I prefer Superman, Batman and Spider-Man to Wonder Woman. Not that I don't like female superheroes, but watching male superheroes gives me a high.
Kajol
#31. You have to be realistic in the use of blood in the movies. There is a little bit more than a gallon in a human being. If you have a few thousand people, that makes a lot of blood. I'm very realistic in my use of blood.
Alexandre Aja
#32. Goals should be realistic, attainable, and shared among all members of the team
Mike Krzyzewski
#33. Be realistic about your love feelings before saying 'I Love You'.
Auliq Ice
#34. Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that.
Werner Herzog
#35. You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it.
Clint Eastwood
#36. We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions.
Jerry Brown
#37. After learning , please be realistic.
Give yourself a permission to keep making mistakes.
We must also give ourselves the gift of understanding that we can't remember everything we learned at once
John Gray
#38. Imagination was a dangerously captivating magic for those compelled to be realistic in life, and words could be poisonous for those destined always to be silenced.
Elif Shafak
#39. Be realistic: plan for a miracle!
Anonymous
#40. Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic ...
Bob Woodward
#41. You're never going to get from the industry what you give to it. But it's worth it; you just have to be realistic.
Tiffany Thornton
#42. We cannot know the future, nor can we change it, ... It is best to be realistic about such things. But we have the time we have been given. So let us treasure it while we can.
Geraldine Brooks
#43. A choice between killing and dying is no choice at all. You have to be realistic about these things. b
Joe Abercrombie
#44. I don't think that ambition should not be in the dictionary of entrepreneurs. But our ambition should be realistic. You have to realise that you can't do everything.
Mukesh Ambani
#45. My goal is to never lose. That may not be realistic, but I'm going to try.
Jennie Finch
#46. Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.
Zhu Rongji
#47. As long as you are in the relative worlds, you should be realistic and know there is winning and losing here.
Frederick Lenz
#48. Delusion is not good; better to be realistic and then surprise yourself if you're lucky.
Lenny Abrahamson
#49. Let's be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That's why I like it ... The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar: now that's my idea of a good time.
Frank Zappa
#51. You have to create the space for the possibility of people speaking as they do. If writing is supposed to lead us in any way or educate or suggest other ways of being, it can't do so by simply reflecting what's considered to be realistic.
Lynne Tillman
#52. You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.
George Carlin
#53. It is not realistic, maybe ... but art doesn't have to be realistic. Romeo and Juliet is not realistic, but it is true ... it shows the essence of falling in love.
Jan Harlan
#54. We have to be realistic about what we can achieve in Afghanistan. The notion that the United States can build a Western-style democracy there is a myth
Barbara Boxer
#56. I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
Queen Latifah
#57. There is no greater path to mediocrity in life than trying to be realistic.
Sean Plott
#58. Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. Why would you be realistic? What's the point of being realistic? I'm going to do it. It's done. It's already done. The second I decide it's done, it's already done.
Will Smith
#59. Be reasonable. Friendly. The first rule of negotiation her dad taught her was to find out what the other person wanted and figure out a way you could convince them you'd be able to supply it. That, and always be realistic about what was going on.
Danielle Monsch
#60. One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride.
Richard Nelson Bolles
#61. Sometimes it is not right to wait for the right train. Take any train instead of rotting at the station! In other words, be realistic!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#62. When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
#64. I don't feel that I view things with a pessimistic eye. I should try to say which way events will go rather than which way events should go. We have to be realistic.
Henry Kaufman
#65. Today, Democrats not only have the White House; they have the Senate too. So we have to be realistic about what we can and cannot achieve, while at the same recognizing that realism should never be confused with capitulation.
Mitch McConnell
#66. Perhaps the vengeance could wait, at least until he had a bigger blade to work with. You have to be realistic, after all.
Joe Abercrombie
#67. You can't predict tomorrow. And because you can't predict tomorrow, you have to be realistic with what you have today. It doesn't mean don't enjoy yourself but enjoy yourself at the right time.
Lemar
#68. I have always believed there is great value in studying the flaws of mankind and men - even fictional characters. All of us are flawed. All of us are diminished by some form of prejudice and bias. If a fictional character is to be realistic, he must struggle with imperfections and weaknesses.
K. Lee Lerner
#69. Let's be realistic. Let's do the impossible!
Che Guevara
#70. We have to be realistic. If we don't win, life will continue.
Hayden Fry
#71. Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.
Brigid Brophy
#72. When loved ones die, people always say, "Don't be sad. I'm sure they would have wanted you to be happy." I'm sure that's true. But let's be realistic here, people also want to be missed. It is every person's nightmare to leave the world behind as if they had never been there at all.
Esther Earl
#73. One key to life is to be realistic by being more than imaginative.
Jesse Thompson
#74. Writing is not the lottery. New writers have to be realistic about what it takes to get published. But there is one similarity to the lottery: You have to play to win.
Lori Perkins
#75. The child and the poet know that Reality is what does not need to be realistic.
Vicki Lewis Thompson
#76. But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating the kitchen knife and wondering whether it wouldn't look nicer between someone's shoulder-blades.
Jude Morgan
#77. To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#79. In the years ahead of me, I learned that the world is actually filled with people ready to tell you how likely something is, and what it means to be realistic. But what I have also learned is that no one, no one truly knows what is possible until they go and do it.
Liz Murray
#81. Think proactively and dynamically. Be realistic, but set your sights high.
Lorii Myers
#82. He wondered for an idle moment if he'd ever see her again, but it didn't look likely. You have to be realistic, after all, and getting through tomorrow seemed like quite the ambition.
Joe Abercrombie
#83. To fight my enemies I need friends behind me, and I'm clean out of friends. You have to be realistic. It's been a while since my ambitions went beyond getting through each day alive.
Joe Abercrombie
#84. It's very important for entrepreneurs to be realistic. So if you believe on that first day while you're writing the business plan that there's a 70 percent chance that the whole thing will fail, then that kind of relieves the pressure of self-doubt.
Jeff Bezos
#85. Bob Goodenow will kill me, but if we're going to be realistic about things, probably 75 per cent of the league is overpaid. But we're not paying ourselves. There are people giving it to us and no one is putting a gun to their heads. Something has to be done if we're going to fix this.
Brett Hull
#86. Be realistic with your expectations. I'd really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it aint going to happen.
India Knight
#87. My work is known by too few people for me to be remembered as a writer - that is, beyond those dedicated souls (bless them) who have followed the oeuvre through its various stages. To be realistic, when they and the last of my friends have died, I doubt I shall be remembered at all.
John Scott
#88. Because Naughty Dog relies on their facial team to hand animate the faces of each game character and they do such a remarkable job, I think you can be more realistic with your acting. It gives the story and what's happening to you the feeling that it's a game.
Nolan North
#89. I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives.
Stephen Harper
#90. Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose?
Carl Sagan
#91. The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project's outcome; it is to determine whether a project's targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them.
Steve McConnell
#92. But how can psychotherapists purport to dispel the illusions of their clients while protecting and maintaining their own? Furthermore, a therapist's belief in and commitment to the therapeutic process ought not to be based on naive idealism, but rather on realistic appraisal.
Michael Sussman
#93. I think human beings exist in a social world. I write realistic fiction, and so it isn't that surprising that the social realities of their existence would be part of the story.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#94. Yeah, it was horrible! I mean really horrible. I felt incredibly awkward. It was not something I was [looking forward to]. I don't know, but it looked good. We somehow managed to make it look realistic. I was proud of myself that I managed to power through and be professional.
Emma Watson
#95. The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give this help, tends to change the balance of power in a youth's inner life with the result that compassion can become the master motive.
Kurt Hahn
#96. Courage is rarely reckless or foolish ... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.
Margaret Truman Daniel
#97. In a perfect world, you would be able to hold onto everyone. But It's not realistic. The changes with NYPD have been progressive and have taken the show to new levels.
Dennis Franz
#98. I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.
Alan Greenspan
#99. It's better to consider someone as Sandpaper who has hurt you over and over.. In spite of all the scratches and pain, you'll be all shiny and polished while they'll end up useless..
Anonymous
#100. There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.
Ben Okri
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