Top 100 Quotes About Realistic
#1. We have not the remotest realistic inkling of a consciousness which is not self-consciousness.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#2. With the ebb of lust, an ashen sense of awfulness, abetted by the realistic drabness of a grey neuralgic day, crept over me and hummed within my temples.
Vladimir Nabokov
#3. Maybe people don't see me as believable playing a person of today. I guess I'm just more realistic in a corset and funny hairstyles.
Katie McGrath
#4. Before we can consider which way to go from where we are, we must agree on where we want to end up. If our desire is to become happy, then let's begin by having a realistic understanding of what it means to be happy.
Will Bowen
#5. I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#6. When I watched American Idol, I always thought Simon was the most realistic. Simon's like, It was absolutely horrid. That's what they tell in the music industry.
Toni Braxton
#7. Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic.
Tennessee Williams
#8. 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
#9. Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.
Ray Bradbury
#10. When I stopped making films, they were getting on to the more realistic films and the explicit films and all. They were depicting life as it is, and some of it was unpleasant. I gradually moved away from that.
Danny Kaye
#11. He saves us by realistic restoration of our heart to God and then by dwelling there with his Father through the distinctively divine Spirit. The heart thus renovated and inhabited is the only real hope of humanity on earth.
Dallas Willard
#12. You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks ... although the latter is much less realistic.
Kenneth Lonergan
#13. The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.
Golda Meir
#14. Whether you work with a small or corporate press, the important thing is to have realistic expectations in terms of sales, promotion, and the work you have to do as an author promoting your novel.
Joe Meno
#15. It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.
Igor Babailov
#16. When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible.
Claudio Reyna
#17. Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.
Flannery O'Connor
#18. 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
#19. Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals is instructive in painting a realistic portrayal of Lincoln and his methods for accomplishing his objectives. In fact, many good political biographies are useful in learning about power, strategy, and decision-making.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#20. 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
#21. There is no greater path to mediocrity in life than trying to be realistic.
Sean Plott
#22. One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well ... just realistic.
Faraaz Kazi
#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. Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!
T. S. Eliot
#25. I deal with football from a realistic, logical point of view.
Joe Namath
#26. My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators.
Bill Parcells
#27. You know, there comes a time in everyone's life when they have to carefully examine the goals they've set for themselves. When they have to admit their limitations and look at their capibilities in a more realistic way.
Jenny Trout
#28. 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
#30. 'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
David R. Brower
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. I think there's a ton of fear in the perception of romance in part because there's something very realistic in great romance - namely, that women have the right to demand relationships that are based on equality and honesty and trust and, yes, a great sex life.
Sarah MacLean
#34. An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.
Peter Drucker
#35. To think that we as a publisher (i.e. people who have never actually MADE a game) can have a realistic impact on a project that a team of experts is slaving away on full time for 2 years is a bit arrogant.
Mike Wilson
#36. I have a fairly realistic idea about what my gifts and limitations are.
Amanda Peet
#37. Many people love grey squirrels, but the reality is that they are a real problem for some of our most threatened native species, like the red squirrel and dormouse. It is not realistic, practical or even desirable to completely eradicate grey squirrels, but we must control them effectively.
Jim Knight
#38. Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try.
in Good Housekeeping
Peggy Noonan
#39. Common standards ensure that every child across the country is getting the best possible education, no matter where a child lives or what their background is. The common standards will provide an accessible roadmap for schools, teachers, parents and students, with clear and realistic goals.
Roy Romer
#40. Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries
which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.
Marcel Proust
#41. If vitality gives a man's perspectives color, if community bonds give them breadth, if awareness of the land makes them realistic, a deep sense of loyalty gives them personal meaning and integrity.
Harry Ransom
#42. We live on two levels ... the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really?
Tennessee Williams
#43. Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse.
John Crowley
#44. 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
#45. In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.
Michael Shanks
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. It's not realistic to imagine that any poem will last forever. Our species won't last forever! We try to capture and preserve our impressions of reality because it's all going away: everything we think and remember, everything we've ever felt, everyone we love.
James Arthur
#49. Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.
Samuel Fuller
#50. 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
#51. We will never stop illegal immigration until this country has a comprehensive, realistic immigration policy.
Ruben Hinojosa
#52. 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
#53. I had always studied French and was obsessed with French films. I hated the way American films always had happy endings. I liked the way French films had dark and unpleasant characters; it was much more realistic.
Jerry Hall
#54. I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant.
Marton Csokas
#55. In France, it's always about life, normal life. We always stick with these realistic things. So when French people are dreaming about American movies, they go and see the thrillers, and Westerns, and science fiction, huge entertaining movies.
Berenice Bejo
#56. 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
#58. 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
#60. 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
#61. When you look at a photo or realistic drawing of a face, you see it as the face of another . But when you enter the world of the cartoon , you see yourself.
Scott McCloud
#62. I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things.
Jai Rodriguez
#63. As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories.
Moshe Sharett
#64. 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
#65. Risk management is a more realistic term than safety. It implies that hazards are ever-present, that they must be identified, analyzed, evaluated and controlled or rationally accepted.
Jerome F. Lederer
#66. Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation.
Lee Ellis
#67. I've certainly always had a very high regard for Botswana and so I paint a very good picture of the country and I've never pretended to be painting an entirely realistic picture.
Alexander McCall Smith
#68. I think the more realistic you try to make the graphics and the experience, the more you limit yourself to a single vision.
Markus Persson
#69. I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.
Marguerite Young
#70. Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
Federico Fellini
#71. There is an exuberance in good fantasy quite unlike the most exalted moments of realistic fiction. Both forms have similar goals; but realism walks where fantasy dances.
Lloyd Alexander
#72. In a way, I think we all want to look to that journalistic voice as a kind of global omniscience, a big eye to correct for our own limited purview: "Here's a realistic accounting of the world in which we live."
Karen Russell
#73. Delusion is not good; better to be realistic and then surprise yourself if you're lucky.
Lenny Abrahamson
#74. Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk.
Sergei Bubka
#75. Youthful dreams are precious things. They ought not to be dashed as foolish and unrealistic just because they are young dreams. Innocence ought not to be destroyed from any callous conviction that a realistic sort of cynicism is better.
Mary Balogh
#76. The girl with the shaved head has a scar tattooed on her scalp. It looks like a long, sutured gash. You tell her it is very realistic. She takes this as a compliment and thanks you. You meant as opposed to romantic. "I could use one of those right over my heart," you say.
Jay McInerney
#77. The 3-D effects in "Star Wars" are so realistic, you can actually see George Lucas reaching from the screen and taking the money from your wallet.
Craig Ferguson
#78. Coming back from doing 'The Hobbit,' you think 'Sherlock' is realistic, but of course, it's not that realistic.
Martin Freeman
#79. Dreams that are realistic, often come out of fantasies.
Mike Vance
#80. We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India.
Irrfan Khan
#81. I'm not a Democrat; I'm something well to the left of a Democrat, but I'm just realistic about the system.
Steve Earle
#82. ...
You are here again,
so realistic,
just, the golden dawn
takes you away
in the morning...
Be here now,
not there,
where there is nothing
but stars
and emptiness...
...
Zorica Savron
#83. Any realistic vision of change must be based on the notion of empowerment of people.
Michael Manley
#84. I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.
Gene Wilder
#85. As long as you are in the relative worlds, you should be realistic and know there is winning and losing here.
Frederick Lenz
#86. I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious.
Amy Lee
#87. I read fiction all the time. It's true that I don't like fantasy or science fiction. I like "realistic" novels, particularly those in which nothing much ever happens.
Gustavo Perez Firmat
#88. When considering a career move, consider the most important assumptions that have to prove true and how you can swiftly and inexpensively test if they are valid. Also, remain realistic about the path ahead of you.
Clayton Christensen
#89. In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions.
Jurgen Habermas
#90. People who want to know how stocks fared on any given day ask, "Where did the Dow close?" I'm more interested in how many stocks went up versus how many went down. These so-called advance/decline numbers paint a more realistic picture.
Peter Lynch
#91. We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't
and those feelings are probably realistic.
Hugh Prather
#92. We now have capabilities in science and technology that raise the very realistic possibility that a small group of terrorists could kill not only thousands of people, as they did on September 11th, but hundreds of thousands of people. And that has changed the dimension of the threat we face.
Michael Chertoff
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don't care to know any more.
Michel Houellebecq
#96. 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
#97. Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic ...
Bob Woodward
#98. Anxiety is a state of apprehension, uncertainty, and fear resulting from the anticipation of a realistic or fantasized threatening event or situation. Often, men will appear confident and self-assured to others but actually be living with a great deal of worry and fear.
Jed Diamond
#99. If realistic fiction is primarily metonymic, fantasy is inescapably metaphoric; because the presence of the impossible blocks a literal reading, we are invited to look at Fred and his world as some sort of iconic stand-in for everyday life, rather than as an extension from it. By
Brian Attebery
#100. There aren't a lot of films about adolescents or quote-unquote coming-of-age films that are realistic nowadays.
Shailene Woodley
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