Realist Quotes - Page 2

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.

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.

I'm a realist. And realists don't fool themselves.

A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.

We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions.

The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.

I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.

We should always be practical, realistic and optimistic.

Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.

The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.

I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious.

One cannot afford to be a realist.

Either we're going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border.

Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.

You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it.

Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.

My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in landscape.

We only hear success stories. You don't hear about the hundreds and hundreds - the overwhelming majority that don't go anywhere. This is a more realistic portrayal of what happens in startups.

I try not to do scenes a certain way, because then I become conscious of it, and it dosen't come off as realistic. I try to make it so that I'm not really aware of what I'm doing.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.

A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.

We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!

Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocracy

There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.

So often feminism is built up as this thing where you have to be perfect. You have to be consistent and you can't ever deviate. That's just not realistic.