What's the difference between doer and realist?

Doer


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.
  • (v. t. & i.) An agent or attorney; a factor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The accompanying articles (Saffen, D.W., Presper, K.A., Doering, T.L., and Roseman, S. (1987) J. Biol.
  • (2) He added: "South Africa has to stop feeling sorry for itself and be doers instead of talkers.
  • (3) The documents contained an undated “personal message” from Trump to new enrollees at the school: “Only doers get rich.
  • (4) Results indicate that when the harm-doers apologized, as opposed to when they did not, the victim-subjects refrained from severe aggression against them.
  • (5) This weekend the very accomplished Rona Fairhead, former FT chief executive and now the government’s choice to be the new chair of the BBC Trust, was described namelessly in a Telegraph headline as “mother of three.” It was decidedly reminiscent of that Sunday Times front page headline in April, “Grandmother, 71, tackles slave traffickers for the Pope” , sparking condescending mental images of a sweet little ol’ granny pummelling evil-doers with her cane.
  • (6) The chancellor made his pitch for Britain's greying vote in a package for "makers, doers and savers" designed to complete the repair job after the deepest recession of the modern era, warning that cuts would continue long into the next parliament.
  • (7) Once, Whitehall might have looked to local government for a "doer".
  • (8) The nucleotide sequence of Escherichia coli ptsI indicates four -SH residues per subunit (Saffen, D. W., Presper, K. A., Doering, T. L., and Roseman, S. (1987) J. Biol.
  • (9) I’m a doer, not a talker,” Bush said at an event in Wolfeboro, reviving digs he has taken at senators for spending more time delivering floor speeches than passing meaningful legislation.
  • (10) Situation attributions were preferred when the harm-doer was white, and person (dispositional) attributions were preferred in the black-protagonist conditions.
  • (11) Barnett said it was “yet to be determined” whether online advocates of these acts were “the doers … or they’re just the keyboard activists who light a fuse under somebody else”.
  • (12) This will be a meeting of "doers", men and women willing to fight the Obama administration and its perceived attack on US free enterprise and unfettered wealth.
  • (13) (“He says he is the thinker, and I am the doer,” Regina told me later.
  • (14) To help with this some personal budget users, frustrated by the talk of people who don't know enough about what it is really like, have formed the Doers Club.
  • (15) Finally, three of the last 25 prizes have gone to what could be termed doers of good works, like the micro-finance pioneer Muhammad Yunus in 2006 .
  • (16) Parking is near the elegiac ruins of Tintern Abbey, and from there one embarks upon a digestible but heart thumping climb up to the Devil's Pulpit, a rocky outcrop, affording fantastic views, where the evil doer himself supposedly used to preach temptation to the industrious monks scurrying below.
  • (17) The delightful triumph of the "doers" in Rehn's suture of a stab wound and Souttar's intracardiac mitral valve manipulations is saluted.
  • (18) I'm an energetic doer, and should be a sales rep just like Donald Trump, Eddie Murphy, Bruce Willis, Madonna or Jack Nicholson.
  • (19) Hezza is a (mildly dyslexic) doer, not a thinker, but he understands the restless dynamic of capitalism and is not naive about its weaknesses.
  • (20) We have a prime minister who first, believes in climate change and, secondly, is a doer.

Realist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who believes in realism; esp., one who maintains that generals, or the terms used to denote the genera and species of things, represent real existences, and are not mere names, as maintained by the nominalists.
  • (n.) An artist or writer who aims at realism in his work. See Realism, 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
  • (2) But she says she is totally convinced that, as a public broadcaster, RAI has an ethical responsibility to start showing women in a more realistic light.
  • (3) You can’t prevent it,” he says, calling himself a realist.
  • (4) "If I hadn't scored that goal, I might still have ended up playing in Italy [Platt went on to play for Bari, Juventus and Sampdoria] but, realistically, I'm sure it was the catalyst.
  • (5) Given his background, Boyle says, growing up in a council house near Bury, with his two sisters (one a twin) and his strict and hard-working parents (his mum worked as a dinner lady at his school), he should by rights have been a gritty social realist, but that tradition never appealed to him.
  • (6) The ordered aspect of the genetic code table makes this result a plausible starting point for studies of the origin and evolution of the genetic code: these could include, besides a more refined optimization principle at the logical level, some effects more directly related to the physico-chemical context, and the construction of realistic models incorporating both aspects.
  • (7) A realistic interpretation of neurophysiologic data on the neostriatum must take into account all cell types instead of the current view of considering it as a pool of interneurons with few output cells.
  • (8) However, he told the BBC the 2014 target was a realistic aim.
  • (9) "I know fans will be disappointed but I think they are also realistic.
  • (10) Finally, an integrated control of Chagas Disease must emphasise complementary activities such as housing improvement and the active control of blood banks to eliminate transfusional transmission, besides the development of a realistic medical care system.
  • (11) Concluding that he didn't really want a career as a gritty Northern Irish realist, Harvey decided to train as a teacher.
  • (12) The possibility of pulmonary edema from fluid overload in nonhypovolemic patients, and reluctance of field personnel to infuse fluid at the rates necessary to produce benefit raise further questions about realistic benefit of IV's in all but the most rural systems.
  • (13) Epidemiological effects of lung cancer screening have not yet been confirmed, but so many lung cancer cases have been detected and treated, that a realistic approach for the improvement of screening programs was discussed.
  • (14) In asthmatic patients with aspirin sensitivity, who undergo ASA desensitization, continuous treatment with ASA or NSAIDs is realistic.
  • (15) Evaluations of the summer program have revealed that the students have an increased academic self-concept, a more realistic view of the requirements to become a health professional, and an enhanced awareness of the health care environment.
  • (16) A way must be found to experiment with various discretionary approaches that would strike a realistic balance among competing interests.
  • (17) She believes her explorations – of their vanities, their blindnesses, their cruelties, of the brief moments in which they attain goodness, or glimpse a kind of realistic, unselfish love – to be of urgent importance.
  • (18) I think we can realistically put back what we had 25 or 30 years ago.” However, the engineering projects are prohibitively expensive.
  • (19) Unemployment stands at a massive 36.7% using the most realistic definition, he noted in a June 2013 speech, with the proportion of those out of work for more than a year at 68%.
  • (20) It offers a more clinically realistic setting than models based on costs alone.