When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.Pauline Collins
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.Bertrand Russell
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.William Gibson
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.Thomas Huxley
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.William Arthur Ward
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.Charles Bukowski