Being Real Quotes - Page 13

• Whatever my life looks like, I want it to be real and big and full. I want when, if I get hit by a car, I want to know that I have deep and real friendships, people to visit me in the hospital.

  Jen Kirkman

  Real, Car, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Crush, Real, Ideas

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America: 1638-1870”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. But you know, man, I am totally together.

  Syd Barrett

  Men, Thinking, Together

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• While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization of others. It must be achieved firsthand via substantive, direct perception in the moment.

  H. E Davey

  Wisdom, Real, Reading

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• I also like to use a sensational headline. Many people read blogs in aggregators, which generally show only the headline. So you have to give people a reason to click through. Blogs need to be real and personal. Reading it should be like hanging out with you. I play music for my readers. I show them videos I like. I tell them what I did over the weekend. And I tell them what is happening in the technology, Internet, and VC markets.

  Fred Wilson

  Success, Business, Real

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• For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sales. I think that happens with other kinds of disabilities and products and that is something that is being realized more and more.

  Richard Masur

  Thinking, Mcdonalds, Example

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• Just be real with yourself right now. We beat ourself.

  Jameis Winston

  Real, Beats, Right Now

  "Warchant TV: Rose Bowl post-game press conference". floridastate.rivals.com. January 1, 2015.

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• My only real requirement is that I like the projects to be good and I like the people that I work with to be really nice people and great people, and as long as that's the case the music is fun to do always.

  Christopher Lennertz

  Fun, Real, Nice

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• I was giving up--being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter.

  Tobias Wolff

  Giving Up, People, Bitter

  Tobias Wolff (2007). “This Boy's Life: A Memoir”, p.209, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

  Goldwin Smith

  Real, Humanity, Novelists

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

  Seth Godin

  Giving Up, Believe, Realist

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.29, Penguin

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• When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.

  Dexter Gordon

  Tunes, Able, Kind

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• Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocracy

  Will Smith

  Realistic

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• Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Real, Mean, Trying

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors”, p.213, Beacon Press

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• Every choice you make as an actor ends up being really influential on your life, because you're spending a lot of time working on this project, and you want to make sure you're making good choices and you're not making them for the wrong reasons. I just want to be careful and not jump into anything.

  Michael Cera

  Choices, Actors, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.

  Conor McPherson

  Real, Men, Leaving

  "So there's these three Irishmen". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2001.

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• There is something very peculiar about this form of atheism: It tries to constantly remind us of God while maintaining He does not exist! How can you hate something that is not there? Why would you persistently prove to people the non-existence of a being really not there?

  Gerard Verschuuren

  Hate, People, Evil

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• I'm fairly well off. I can't poor-mouth that away from people's sensibilities about me, which is something I worry about as an actor. But it would be real stupid of me to do something for the money.

  Jack Nicholson

  Real, Stupid, People

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I prefer to learn everything through music. If you want divinity, the music in every human being and their love for music is pretty much it. It's the big indication of their spirituality and their ability to love and make love, or feel pain or joy, and really manifest it, really be real.

  Jeff Buckley

  Pain, Real, Joy

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• Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults.

  Amy Bloom

  Real, Faults

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• When we say, "I take refuge in the Buddha," we should also understand that "The Buddha takes refuge in me," because without the second part the first part is not complete. The Buddha needs us for awakening, understanding, and love to be real things and not just concepts. They must be real things that have real effects on life. Whenever I say, "I take refuge in the Buddha," I hear "the Buddha takes refuge in me."

  Nhat Hanh

  Real, Understanding, And Love

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.25, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect; the loadstone tests the steel, and the diamond is tried by the diamond, while metals gleam the brighter in the furnace.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Real, Perfect, Crucible

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• There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.

  Blaise Pascal

  Real, Should, Eloquence

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.284

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• It isn't necessary to be perfect to be a channel for the universe. You just have to be real- be yourself. The more real, honest, and spontaneous you are, the more freely the creative force can flow through you.

  Shakti Gawain

  Being Yourself, Honesty, Real

  Shakti Gawain (1993). “Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation”, Nataraj Publishing

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• When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Real, Deception, May

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (1982). “The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Vintage

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