Real World Quotes - Page 11

• In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless.

  Fischer Black

  Real, Research, World

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• I like that "once upon a time" quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Real, Once Upon A Time, Quality

  "'The Night Circus' looks to enchant fans of 'Twilight' and 'Harry Potter'". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. September 19, 2011.

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• The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.

  John F. Kennedy

  Real, Events, Purpose

  Speech at the Mormon Tabernacle, delivered 26 September 1963, Salt Lake City, Utah

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• People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.

  Neil Kinnock

  Real, Fishing, Agony

  "Neil Kinnock: 'This election is about now and the future'". Interview with David Hare, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.

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• I've always been an escapist, I guess, and I spend so much time on the internet absorbing ideas and processing the horrors of the world that when I'm actually going to read for pleasure, it's always something ridiculous about a dragon. I'm so saturated with the injustice and torment of the real world that it's really hard for me to get myself to read anything that's even set in our universe, because I'm exhausted by our universe.

  Lindy West

  Real, World, Ridiculous

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• I believe that we face incredible obstacles in our attempts to see the world. Everything in our nature tries to deny the world around us; to refabricate it in our own image; to reinvent it for our own benefit. And so, it becomes something of a challenge, a task, to recover (or at least attempt to recover) the real world despite all the impediments to that end.

  Errol Morris

  Real, Believe, Challenges

  "The Museum of Modern Art with Ron Rosenbaum". www.errolmorris.com. Fall, 1999.

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• I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or making friends. But in the real world. interacting with other people - especially kids my own age - made me a nervous wreck. I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.

  Ernest Cline

  Real, Self Esteem, Kids

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• Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle atop a lofty peak with ocean waves crashing down below, and then… justice served! If they wrote about the real world, four-fifths of the story would consist of the hero sitting in a library for months and following false leads.

  Stefan Petrucha

  Real, Hero, Ocean

  Stefan Petrucha (2012). “Ripper”, Penguin

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• That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.

  Frederik Pohl

  Real, Fiction, Literature

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• After I won the title, I was confronted with the real world. People do not behave naturally anymore - hypocrisy is everywhere.

  Boris Spassky

  Real, Hypocrisy, People

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• Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real world is already created, and if your fabrication doesn't correspond, then even if you feel noble and insist on there being something better than what people call reality, that better something needn't try to exceed what, in its actuality, since we know it so little, may be very surprising. If a happy state of things, surprising; if miserable or tragic, no worse than what we invent.

  Saul Bellow

  Real, Often Can, People

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• All the people that were rooting on me to fail, at the end of the day, they have to wake up tomorrow and have the same life that they had before they woke up today. They have the same personal problems they had today. I'm going to continue to live the way I want to live and continue to do the things that I want to do with me and my family and be happy with that. They can get a few days or a few months or whatever the case may be on being happy about not only myself, but the Miami Heat not accomplishing their goal. But they have to get back to the real world at some point.

  LeBron James

  Real, People, Goal

  "In Defense of LeBron James" By Jonathan Weiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2011.

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• Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.

  Paul Chambers

  Education, Strong, Real

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• The desire for perfect release and the real-world impossibility of perfect, whenever-you-want-it release had together produced a tension they could no longer stand.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Perfect, Desire

  David Foster Wallace (2012). “Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• The political class can't imagine a decentralized world where good things happen...without them. But in the real world, that's exactly how good things happen, and how jobs are created. When government sets simple rules that everyone understands and then gets out of the way, free people create jobs.

  John Stossel

  Jobs, Real, Simple

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• People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.

  Aaron Patzer

  Business, Real, People

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• Inspiration is really all around us. I pay attention to a lot of different fields. I stay up on current events. I go to community meetings to see what concerns the people in my neighborhood. Paying attention to social interactions offline really inform interactions online. The real world is a bottomless source of inspiration for what you can build.

  Caterina Fake

  Real, Inspiration, People

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• I'm interested in the real world.

  Edward Bond

  Real, World

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• The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Real, Media, News

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• The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

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• Often, in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Motivational, Real, Smart

  Twitter post from Jan 14, 2017

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• It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be conceived, in line with physics, as a branch of the theoretical construction of the one real world and should adopt the same sober and cautious attitude toward hypothetic extensions of its foundation as is exhibited by physics.

  Hermann Weyl

  Attitude, Real, Drawing

  Hermann Weyl, Frank Wilczek (2009). “Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science”, p.235, Princeton University Press

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• When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

  Hilary Mantel

  Real, Believe, Writing

  "‘Game of Thrones’ Finale Recap: Out Of The Frying Pan, Into The Fire" by Maureen Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2012.

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• How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the 'real' world? I didn't need curing, and the world didn't, either; the only thing that did need curing was my understanding of my place in it. Without that understanding - without a sense of belonging to the real world - it was impossible to thrive in an imagined one.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Real, Order, Understanding

  Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.94, Macmillan

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• Stories come from violence, they come from sex. They come from death. They come from the dark places that everyone has to go to, kind of wants to, or doesn't, but needs to deal with. If you raise a kid to think everything is sunshine and flowers, they're going to get into the real world and die. That's the reason fairy tales are so creepy, because we need to encapsulate these things, to inoculate ourselves against them, so that when we're confronted by the genuine horror that is day-to-day life we don't go insane.

  Joss Whedon

  Sex, Real, Flower

  "Joss Whedon: Conversations". Book by Cynthia Burkhead, March 29, 2011.

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