Real World Quotes - Page 13

• The important thing is to make a different world, to make a world that is not now. A real world, a genuine world, but one that allows myth to live. The myth is everything.

  Sergio Leone

  Real, Important, Different

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• If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.

  Galen Rowell

  Real, Fighting, Artist

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• As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.

  Erica Jong

  Real, Book, World

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• By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed by his family and function in the real world without doing violence to the hopes his mother held out for him. But those who cannot live within this pattern are the freaks and poets, and they travel a different road to peace.

  Murray Kempton

  Mother, Children, Real

  Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.14, New York Review of Books

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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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• A Keyring? Achievements? These are not WoW-specific things. They are common sense. They exist in the real world.

  David Allen

  Real, Common Sense, Achievement

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• You look at it [a photograph] and all around the real world is humming, buzzing and moving, and yet in this little frame there is stillness that looks like the world. That connection, that collision, that interfacing, is one of the most astonishing things we can experience.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Real, Moving, Connections

  Joel Meyerowitz (1990). “Creating a sense of place”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

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• Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and drawing up a theory from them. It began with the invention of a possible world, or a fragment thereof, which was then compared by experimentation with the real world. And it was this constant dialogue between imagination and experiment that allowed one to form an increasingly fine-grained conception of what is called reality.

  Francois Jacob

  Real, Drawing, Imagination

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• True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Life, Real, Effort

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• Logic doesn't apply to the real world.

  Marvin Minsky

  Real, Knowledge, Math

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• Usage is like oxygen for ideas. That means every moment you're working on something without it being in the public it's actually dying, deprived of the oxygen of the real world.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Real, Mean, Oxygen

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• I don't think college is for everyone. School is awesome, but for me, I was learning a lot more outside the classroom in the real world than I was in school.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Motivational, Real, School

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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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• In the university, professors make up artificial problems. In the real world, the problems do not come in nice, neat packages. They have to be discovered.

  Donald A. Norman

  Real, Nice, University Professors

  Donald A. Norman (2013). “The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition”, p.141, Basic Books

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• Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.

  John Powell

  Real, Communication, World

  John Powell, Loretta Brady (1985). “Will the real me please stand up?: so we can all get to know you! : 25 guidelines for good communication”, Thomas More Pr

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• There are the things that are out in the open and then there are the things that are hidden, and life has more to do, the real world has more to do with what is hidden, maybe. You think?

  Saul Leiter

  Real, Thinking, World

  "Postscript: Saul Leiter (1923-2013)" by Teju Cole, www.newyorker.com. November 27, 2013.

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• I'm interested in the real world.

  Edward Bond

  Real, World

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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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• In the shower, with the hot water coming down, you've left the real world behind, and very frequently things open up for you. It's the change of venue, the unblocking the attempt to force the ideas that's crippling you when you're trying to write.

  Woody Allen

  Real, Writing, Ideas

  "Woody Allen: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. August 8, 2013.

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• Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside.

  Tahir Shah

  Real, Important, Stories

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• Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to simplify the design and construction of complex programs.

  David Gelernter

  Powerful, Real, Learning

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• In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the recognition of similarities between certain objects, situations, or processes in the real world and the decision to concentrate on these similarities and to ignore, for the time being, their differences.

  Tony Hoare

  Powerful, Real, Learning

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• What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.

  Plato

  Philosophy, Real, Twilight

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• The other big factor in building trust quickly is site design quality. Mint.com has one of the best graphic designers ever (Jason Putorti) - he cares about every pixel, all the fonts, all the transparencies and effects. And that shows instantly. People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.

  Aaron Patzer

  Real, People, Design

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