Top 56 Quotes About Being Realistic
#1. Believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.
Seth Godin
#2. But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.
Frank Miller
#3. You want to know how many times a day I question why I'm with you?" "Five times." "A hundred." "If you told me you were going to exaggerate, I would have picked that, but I thought we were being realistic here, hun.
Krista Ritchie
#5. 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
#6. To say that politics is not a part of sports is not being realistic. When I run, I am more than a runner. I am a diplomat, an ambassador for my country.
Filbert Bayi
#7. I wasn't trying to make a following. I was just trying to make interesting music. That's not being modest, that's just being realistic.
Girl Talk
#8. How has being "realistic" or "responsible" kept you from the life you want? How has doing what you "should" resulted in subpar experiences or regret for not having done something else?
Timothy Ferriss
#9. Being realistic is the quickest path to mediocrity.
Will Smith
#10. Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange If we accept them we will never win. Since being realistic, as in mundane combats fistic We will get a bloody nose and that's a sin.
George S. Patton
#11. Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity.
Will Smith
#12. I was giving up
being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter.
Tobias Wolff
#13. Being realistic encompasses the negative, but it by no means excludes the positive.
T.K. Coleman
#14. When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.
David R. Brower
#15. There is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.
Gertrude Stein
#16. In being realistic we do not always have to be pessimistic. Christ never blinked his eyes at bad things. But he never became so obsessed with human evil that he lost faith in man.
Ralph Washington Sockman
#17. What you think is fake in your head comes off as not enough on camera, a lot of times. You almost have to overdo it, in this overly, sort of Broadway, large-gestures kind of way to come off as being realistic on camera. It's strange. You almost have to act really fake to come off looking real.
Jack White
#19. 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
#20. If you're not being pessimistic, you're not being very realistic. But I think one must always have hope, and when you have children, of course, you have no choice but to work your tail off to try and protect the future for your children. And that is infused by hope in the end.
David Suzuki
#21. I don't think any of us know how we would react until we were put in a situation where we have to do something bad or do something good. I think I'd like to believe I'd act like a decent human being, but I'm realistic to know I don't know.
Philip Kerr
#22. I was always told that music isn't a 'realistic' path to take, and like a normal human being, I doubted myself over and over because I was afraid of failure.
Alessia Cara
#23. The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.
(Letter, April 19, 1951)
Raymond Chandler
#24. Nature has endowed the human with A HEART to detect the sensibility of
feelings and A WEIRD MIND to contemplate ... so be A REAL HUMAN BEING.
Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram
#25. Insecurity is a sign of well-being. It means we haven't allowed ourselves to take other people for granted, that we remain realistic enough to see that things could genuinely turn out badly and that we are invested enough to care. It
Alain De Botton
#26. Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic.
Tennessee Williams
#27. The genres, it is thought, have other designs on us. They want to entertain, as opposed to rubbing our noses in the daily grit produced by the daily grind. Unhappily for realistic novelists, the larger reading public likes being entertained.
Margaret Atwood
#28. The way the British 'Office' got away with being so dark was that it only had 13 episodes. There are realistic elements that people obviously enjoy, but they don't necessarily want to relive the trials and tribulations of their average work day.
John Krasinski
#29. I think I was always realistic - well, not the Percy thing, that was ridiculous - but I never dreamed of being a racing car driver or anything.
Alan Titchmarsh
#30. As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something.
Barney Frank
#31. Being an actress wasn't realistic. I knew that I was going to have to do it in a way that would speak to my parents. So I went to NYU Tisch School of the Arts for theater, and I studied at the conservatory.
Gina Rodriguez
#32. Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil - of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn't think of myself as evil - just realistic.
Andy Warhol
#33. Let's be honest - tracking down, rounding up, and deporting millions of people isn't realistic. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn't being straight with you. It's also not who we are as Americans.
Barack Obama
#34. One key to life is to be realistic by being more than imaginative.
Jesse Thompson
#35. I waited far too long, being optimistic rather than realistic. I also failed to do my homework
Gordon Clark
#36. I have gotten better at being patient and sitting with discomfort. Before I would worry and try to fix an issue and force circumstances to change or try to change people's minds sooner than was realistic. Now I wait and trust that everything passes and time really does heal everything.
China Forbes
#37. The mainstream has lost its way. Crime fiction is an objective, realistic genre because it's about the real world, real bodies really being killed by somebody. And this involves the investigator in trying to understand the society that the person lived in.
Michael Dibdin
#38. 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
#39. After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I haven't changed my style since.
Robert Bateman
#40. I'm a big fan of Edouard Vuillard, so I'd like anything by him - particularly a painting called 'Madame Hessel on the Sofa.' His work is realistic without being literal: I can really imagine what Madame Hessel is thinking.
Lesley Manville
#42. I don't like James Bond. They made him a super hero, but he is just an agent, a human being. In my movies, secret agents are more realistic, I didn't want to portray them in the most glowing colours.
King Hu
#43. At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny.
Simon Rich
#44. Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.
J.G. Ballard
#45. Sure, there are many bad things that can happen. Yet you can be aware of them, and realistic about them, without being obsessed and consumed by them.
Ralph Marston
#46. Don't front, don't put something out there that you feel isn't realistic and doesn't portray who you are. Just be yourself, be you, and don't be afraid to speak your mind.
Chloe Grace Moretz
#47. Only realistic flight schedules should be proposed, schedules that have a reasonable chance of being met. If in this way the government would not support them, then so be it. NASA owes it to the citizens from whom it asks support to be frank, honest, and informative.
Richard P. Feynman
#48. Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just being totally a randomly bad place.
William Gibson
#49. Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.
Marilu Henner
#50. While looking at a website for liposuction, I learned that it was a six-to eight-week recovery period, the clincher being that, during that time, I would under no circumstances be able to use street drugs. Obviously I had to think of a more realistic approach.
Chelsea Handler
#51. I liked being in the Marines. They gave me discipline I could live with. By the time I got out, I was able to cope with things on a more realistic level.
Steve McQueen
#52. 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
#53. Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.
Aberjhani
#54. I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds.
Mason Cooley
#55. When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.
Bruno Heller
#56. His attitude and behaviour was no different from any other Australian high school student and being in the teaching profession she was not entirely unfamiliar with the student culture and their perceptions that academic excellence was not the only gateway to success.
Neetha Joseph
