#realist

The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years. ↗

— Edward T. Hall

#feels #foreseeable #foreseeable future #future #however

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. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#count #cynic #determines #done #idealist

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#being #eternal #i #low #pretty

To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#level #predictive #race #unrealistic #validity

I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself. ↗

— Joe Sacco

#figure #i #i tried #more #myself

Realists do not fear the results of their study. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#realists #results #study #their

Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn. ↗

— Michael Novak

#christians #hopeful #jews #judaism #too

Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist. ↗

— David Ben-Gurion

#believe #miracles #realist #who

People must be realistic when evaluating their business. ↗

— Kevin Harrington

#evaluating #must #people #realistic #their

And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#perks-of-beng-a-wallflower #realistic-fiction #stephen-chbosky #change