Being Real Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it.

  Frank Herbert

  Science, Done, Research

  Frank Herbert (2014). “The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert”, p.149, Macmillan

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• Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Kwanzaa, Community

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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• By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention color is color. But in reality there are atoms and the void. That is, the objects of sense are supposed to be real and it is customary to regard them as such, but in truth they are not. Only the atoms and the void are real.

  Democritus

  Sweet, Truth, Real

  "Source Book in Ancient Philosophy". Book by Charles Montague Bakewell, 1907.

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• I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.

  Natasha Richardson

  Inspiring, Daughter, Mother

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• I suppose he's making a real fashion statement, but this is high school. You're not supposed to be real. You're supposed to be enough like everyone else to get through and out into the waiting world.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Fashion, Real, School

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• With trees and rocks and the sea and the stars and the clouds and the sun - you cannot be unreal, you cannot be phoney. You HAVE to be real because when you are encountering nature, nature creates something in you which is natural. Responding to nature continuously, you become natural.

  Rajneesh

  Stars, Real, Integrity

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• Since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why we take from women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think its time we killed for our women, be real to our women, try to heal our women, cus if we dont we'll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies, who make the babies. And since a man can't make one he has no right to tell a women when and where to create one

  Tupac Shakur

  Baby, Hate, Real

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• Be authentic. Don't try to be someone you aren't. You'll hate yourself for it & the effort to maintain the facade will exhaust you. BE REAL! Many won't like the real you but that's better than having people adore the person that isn't you at all

  Larry Winget

  Hate, Real, People

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• I don't think that most women have to prove that they're real women. You live long enough, you graduate to being real.

  Charles Baxter

  Real, Thinking, Long

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.33, Vintage

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• When you leave a man alone with his Bible and the Holy Ghost inspires him, he's going to be a Catholic one way or another, even though he knows nothing about the visible church. His kind of Christianity may not be socially desirable, but will be real in the sight of God.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Real, Men, Sight

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• To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Being Single, I Love Myself

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other

  Tupac Shakur

  Real, Skills, Time Heals

  Song: I Wonder If Heaven Got A Ghetto

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• A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Real, Air

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.162, Broadview Press

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• I wants us to be real. I want to be just you and me. - Ryan

  Elizabeth Scott

  Real, Want

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• You mean there’s someone out there better than your father? (Quills) No, idiot. My father trained him. Just FYI, my father is also his godfather. So you want to be real nice to Dev. All of us take it personally when people aren’t. (Adron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Father, Real, Nice

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Ice”, p.3, Macmillan

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• Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocracy

  Will Smith

  Realistic

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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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• 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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• 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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  For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Success, Stress, Real

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2016). “The Moral Basis of Democracy”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• Forget about being impressive and commit to being real.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Real, Forget, Impressive

  FaceBook post by Danielle LaPorte from Jan 23, 2013

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• I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes.

  Winston Churchill

  Real, Use, Tribes

  "The Churchill you didn't know". Writing as president of the Air Council, 1919, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2002.

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• Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Honesty, Integrity, Real

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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