Realistic Quotes - Page 18

• Every time you need protein, get yourself a boiled egg in. But your main meals would be chicken, or hummus, or white fish. You can lose about a pound a day. But you can do this stuff over a period of time, and you can have your happy days. It's about motivation and it has to be something that's realistic for you to keep up.

  Tom Hardy

  Motivation, Eggs, White

  "Bronson - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

  64 Copy quote

  Show source

• Obviously this stuff takes a bit of planning, but I've always been someone that sets achievable short-term goals. I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible. So I've just always been someone that's sort of reassessed where I'm at, and set goals that are realistic. And luckily, I've had plenty of chances to recalibrate and adjust, and good fortune's come my way.

  Eric Bana

  Disappointment, Years, Giving

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 29, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't consider myself very brave in any sense. I'm interested in this kind of behavior. My job is to try to make it realistic and emotionally resonant. That's the most challenging thing, to bring emotional resonance to what you do as an actor.

  Julianne Moore

  Jobs, Emotional, Brave

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. May 28, 2008.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a hopeless romantic. I consider myself a realistic person who usually finds stories from real life people.

  Mabel Cheung

  Real, People, Hopeless Romantic

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Interesting, Being Real, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm probably the only novelist who has ever written about political fugitives who actually knew a lot about them, had contact with them, and had a realistic notion of how they survived.

  Marge Piercy

  Political, Novelists, Contact

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary
  from book to book. But in many books, there is a colloquialism of address. The characters will speak in a quite idiosyncratic way sometimes.

  Don DeLillo

  Book, Writing, Character

  Interview with Martha Lavey, www.steppenwolf.org.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that it's important to try to keep reality. I think that Gabriel Garcia Marquez speaks a lot about reality in his magical realism. So I don't think we have to be hyper-realistic. But we have to understand the pressures that undergird the lives of the characters within that novel.

  Walter Mosley

  Character, Reality, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I run a lot. If I don't have time to go to the gym or don't have time to work out properly, I will go for a quick run. I think running is a great way to stay fit, and I really concentrate on fitting into a realistic urban lifestyle.

  Stella McCartney

  Running, Thinking, Work Out

  Source: www.glamour.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Look at the home makeover shows. It isn't realistic to tear down a house, rebuild it, and decorate it in less then a week, but there aren't people out there criticizing those shows.

  Kim Lyons

  Home, People, House

  Source: www.glamour.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Make sure you're realistic about what you can do, but if you have a good lead with something, making the plunge into full-time writing is the only way to go.

  Ben Clymer

  Writing, Way, Plunge

  "Careers In Fashion". Interview with Sachin Bhola, www.askmen.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For me it's important to get the origin of the character like in the Richard Donner superman. We saw him became slowly a super hero but i think it's important to take time and stay realistic.

  Xavier Gens

  Hero, Character, Thinking

  "‘Hitman’ Director Sets His Sights on Daredevil". Marvel Movies! Interview, screenrant.com. April 30, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A schism in the body social, will not be resolved by any scheme of a return to the good old days (archaism), or by programs guaranteed to render an ideal projected future (futurism), or even by the most realistic, hardheaded work to weld together again the deteriorating elements. Only birth can conquer death -- the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new.

  Joseph Campbell

  Old Things, Together Again, Elements

  Peter A. Clayton, Joseph Campbell (1994). “Great figures of mythology”, Gramercy

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and particularly Southern fiction, we find this quality about it that is generally described, in a pejorative sense, as grotesque. Of course, I have found that 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.... Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Southern, Quality

  "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction" (1960)

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• We've lived through a time in which people have felt they could forge their own future and make a better world. We may not have achieved our dreams in the time frame that we once believed was realistic, but the magnitude of what is yet to be achieved only confirms the importance of our commitment. Knowing this, we can't stop now.

  Peter Yarrow

  Dream, Commitment, Knowing

  4 Copy quote

• True hope is cleareyed. It sees all the difficulties that exist and all the potential for failure, but through that carves a realistic path to a better future.

  Jerome Groopman

  Path, Difficulty, Better Future

  8 Copy quote

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

  Kedar Joshi

  Reason, Breaking Down, Humans

  4 Copy quote

• It is the historical mind, rather than the scientific (in the physicist's sense), that destroyed the mythical orientation of European culture; the historian, not the mathematician, introduced the "higher criticism," the standard of actual fact. It is he who is the real apostle of the realistic age.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Real, Historical, Mind

  "Philosophy in a New Key". Book by Susanne Langer, 1941.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.

  John Lasseter

  Creating, World, Pixar

  6 Copy quote

• Flow is the process of achieving happiness through control over one's inner life. The optimal state of inner experience is order in consciousness. This happens when we focus our attention (psychic energy) on realistic goals and when our skills match the challenges we face.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Order, Psychics, Skills

  17 Copy quote

• I feel that people who understand the horrible things that young emaciated models go through really champion the cause of realistic standards in fashion.You only have to see one person suffering to understand how truly horrible the industry is to these girls.

  Whitney Thompson

  Girl, Fashion, People

  Source: www.refinery29.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My personal position is we have to look beyond the parties now and find a realistic solution to get us out of this crisis which would be to create growth and this isn't something that is going to happen by populism.

  Eva Kaili

  Party, Growth, Would Be

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Boris Nemtsov and I began to argue after Putin's return to the presidency in 2012. In my opinion, there was no longer a realistic chance to achieve regime change through peaceful political means, or real elections. Boris, on the other hand, never lost this hope. He felt that my assessment was premature and said: "You have to live a long time to see changes in Russia." He was deprived of that opportunity.

  Garry Kasparov

  Real, Mean, Opportunity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to 'you.'

  Maxwell Maltz

  Self, Adequate, Acceptable

  4 Copy quote

• I was giving up--being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter.

  Tobias Wolff

  Giving Up, People, Being Real

  Tobias Wolff (2007). “This Boy's Life: A Memoir”, p.209, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source