Realistic Quotes

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.
Marilu Henner

Life, Happy, Stress

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

Life, Enough, Matter

Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.
Deepak Chopra

Yourself, Ask, Passions

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Today, Visionary

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.
Teri Garr

Yourself, Find, Accept

Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
Thurgood Marshall

Freedom, Today, Sense

When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Live, Try, Young

You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.
Dean Kamen

Thinking, Stars, Engineer

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process.
Christopher Hitchens

Time, Live, Long

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
Saul Bellow

Person, Around, Goes

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

Government, Ideals, Soviet

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.
George Lucas

Able, Goals, Issue

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.
Irving Babbitt

Feelings, Democracy, Practice

I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.
Vin Scully

Life, Love, Hate

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.
Ang Lee

Wanted, Quite, Straight

We have to be realistic. If we don't win, life will continue.
Hayden Fry

Life, Win, Continue

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.
Pierre Corneille

Good, Tragedy, Subject

Barack Obama may have found the answer to his biggest rhetorical challenge: When millions of voters are unemployed or underemployed, how does a president simultaneously sound realistic and optimistic?
Ron Fournier

May, Challenge, President

I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.
Diablo Cody

Career, Seem, Midwest

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

Smile, Denial, Symbol

Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.
Vera Wang

Love, Design, Today

One thing I think is least realistic is that there were five people that made decisions in the fictional 'West Wing.' In real life, there are about five million people that weigh in.
Dee Dee Myers

Life, Real, Made

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.
Mike Krzyzewski

Yourself, Said, Honor

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
Arthur Miller

Experience, Feeling, Real

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
Federico Fellini

Bad, Real, Everything

I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives.
Stephen Harper

History, Country, Last

I've learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talented they are. Today, I'm looking at life from a realistic point of view instead of the way I would want things to be.
Otis Williams

Life, Today, Human

I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.
Danica Patrick

Love, Before, Play

We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people.
Iain Duncan Smith

Young, System, Promise

In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.
Haruki Murakami

Understand, Leave, Open

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