Realist Quotes - Page 7

• I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Cynic, Skeptic

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• A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in the raw; he is generally a proclaimed cynic and pessimist who makes it his business to look behind words and fine speeches for the motive. This motive is always low.

  Mary McCarthy

  Political, Looks, Speech

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The humanist in the bathtub”

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• When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Pay, Accepting, Refuse

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• In love' is for the romantic. 'Love' for the realist.

  Nancy Spain

  Romantic Love, Love Is

  Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”

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• I'm much more of a realist. I'm really practical. I'm the kind of person that calls my business manager and says, OK, if it were all to end today, how many months do I have to live?

  Courteney Cox

  Months, Today, Kind

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• People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.

  Joan Baez

  People, Pessimist

  "Joan Baez on the new protest era: The whole world's watching". Interview with Greg Kot, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 26, 2011.

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• Realist painting has to do with leaving out a lot of detail. I think my painting can be a little shocking in all that it leaves out. But what happens is that the mind fills in what's missing . . . Painting is a way of making you see what I saw.

  Alex Katz

  Thinking, Missing, Leaving

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• The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.

  Emile Zola

  Mean, Reality, Giving

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• I don't want to say that in a place that's negative about what the fear is. I just want to be a realist.

  Ava DuVernay

  Negative, Want

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• Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatistI have so carefully posited 'reality' ab initio, and why throughout my whole discussion, I remain an epistemologist realist.

  William James

  Reality, Ideas, Giving

  William James (2015). “The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding”, p.74, 谷月社

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• How cold the vacancy
  When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist
  First sees reality. The mortal no
  Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.

  Wallace Stevens

  Reality, Vacancy, Gone

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.331, Vintage

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• Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spring, Miracle, Doe

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.53, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realists, and their tactics are realistic, so no man should be a gentleman where women are concerned unless the women are very, very old or very, very young. Women admire gentlemen, and sleep with cads.

  Louis L'Amour

  Sleep, Men, Gentleman

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.215, Bantam

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• Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

  Heywood Hale Broun

  Golf, Games, Attention

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• The visionary is the only realist.

  Federico Fellini

  Hipster, Visionaries

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• Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top.")

  Terry Pratchett

  Cat, Doors, Views

  "The Unadulterated Cat". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• President Hinckley is not only a living prophet but also a living seer. He sees things that others do not see. He has the gift of discernment; he is an optimist and a realist. . . . Through President Hinckley's divine guidance, the Church has received many far-reaching blessings, many that are not obvious. I strongly encourage each of you to more closely follow his counsel and guidance, for truly 'a seer hath the Lord raised up unto his people' (Moses 6:36).

  David E. Sorensen

  Blessing, Divine Guidance, People

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• One cannot afford to be a realist.

  Albert Bandura

  Self Efficacy

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• Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called nominalist, an instrumentalist, a positivist, a realist, and several other ists. The technique seems refutation by denigration: If you can attach a label to my approach, you don't have to say what is wrong with it... I am sure that Einstein, Heisenberg and Dirac didn't worry about whether they were realists or instrumentalists.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Worry, Technique

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• The Society of North American Magic Realists welcomes its newest, most dazzling member, Louis Maistros. His debut novel is a thing of wonder, unlike anything in our literature. It startles. It stuns. It stupefies. No novel since CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES has done such justice to New Orleans. If Franz Kafka had been able to write like Peter Straub, this might have been the result.

  Donald Harington

  Writing, New Orleans, Justice

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• Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme.

  Esther Perel

  Passion, People, Intensity

  Esther Perel (2009). “Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an abstract painting. They both have more or less the same effect on the observer.

  Gerhard Richter

  Differences, Abstract Painting, Example

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Oct 28, 2015

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• Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

  Seth Godin

  Giving Up, Believe, Being Real

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.29, Penguin

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• I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

  Clay Aiken

  Thinking, Afterlife, Littles

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• What reality was ever made by realists?

  Richard Flanagan

  Reality, Made

  Richard Flanagan (2014). “The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel”, p.32, Vintage

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