(312 quotes found)
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
William Arthur Ward
“I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.”
Walt Disney
“If someone tells you he is going to make "a realistic decision", you immediately understand that he is going to do something bad.”
Mary McCarthy
“as realistic as possible.”
Tom Hanks
“The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of ''nothing attempted, nothing gained'' and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.”
Wilferd A. Peterson
“We have to be realistic,”
Howard Dean
“I think if we are realistic, the South - the old Confederate states - really only has one entirely unique feature that other parts of the country don't have, and that is this nearly 400-year history of tremendous intimacy, in every sense of the word, good and evil, between two very different kinds of peoples: people who were brought here against their wishes from Africa and a largely Anglo-white population.”
Reynolds Price
“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
“I'm not conceding. I'm just being realistic.”
Johnny Weir
“[There should be plenty of visuals to watch, including realistic depictions of the way Christ was tortured before his excruciating crucifixion. Caviezel, also a practicing Catholic, spent 15 days on the cross during shooting and was scourged so realistically that he dislocated a shoulder at one point.] There's an immense amount of suffering on this, ... Fortunately, God is helping me.”
Jim Caviezel
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