The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.
The most important thing taught to my students is to not be so photo realist in what they depict.
Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.
I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.
This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.
If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.
I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.
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.
I am a mixture of idealist and realist.
I was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn't win the race. I am a realist.
In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
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