Best 108 quotes in «realistic quotes» category

Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic.

But while I'm realistic about our challenges, I'm optimistic about our future. There are a few things, and if we do them, we're going to have the greatest era in our history. And I have detailed what those things are specifically.

But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or they are in no sense works of art): they must persist as objects of contemplation.

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.

Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.

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.

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.

Goals have to be realistic and flexible.

God is the true realistic point where human reason mostly, if not completely, breaks down.

If I had to choose, I would never take my shirt off again in a movie, but I guess that's not very realistic. I certainly won't be asking to do it, though.

I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds.

I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.

I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things.

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

If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

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.

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.

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.

I try to be realistic, listen to my body and know when to slow down.

Job's unraveling wasn't wrong or sinful; rather, it was emotionally realistic.

My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

I'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.

It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.

It's always an honor to be ranked high, but whatever is said about you, you take it and then take a realistic look at yourself and who you are.

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

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.

Pick a goal, make a realistic plan to reach that goal, work through each step of the plan, and repeat.

Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

Steve has a reality distortion field.” When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. “In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he’s not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules.

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.

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.

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.

There is an automatic assumption that negative is realistic and positive is unrealistic.

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

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.

The Wire' is very realistic and based on real events.

Only by advocating 'politically unrealistic' CO2 concentrations can runaway global warming be avoided. But what is politically realistic for humans is whollymunrelated to what is physically realistic for the planet.

The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.

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

The scenes in the show were filmed with a crew of really excellent stunt jumpers, but we had the feel of the parachutes, so we could be more realistic in the roles.

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

To put more American personnel in harm's way without a realistic chance for success is something I'm not in favor of. And a realistic chance for success depends upon having the Iraqis with the will and the ability to fulfill their share of the bargain, and so far they have not.

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.

Winning a championship is now a legitimate and realistic goal.

A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up.

And it's beyond my energy to explain why I don't think that four-letter word that everyone's so obsessed over and that gets everyone into so much trouble and pretty much makes everyone behave like an ass can live in a place like this. Somewhere during dry cleaning, details, and missed meals, it flakes away and what you're left with is married people with a tolerable affinity for each other. That little four-letter word can exist only in poetry, or movies of 2 to 3 hours in length. Maybe in a mini-series. This place of dull details and irksome obligations is a home only to other four-letter words, which are used much more frequently.