Real World Quotes - Page 23

• In Greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he had contact with the earth. When he was lifted from the earth he lost strength. So it is with engineers. They must not become isolated from the real world...

  Hyman Rickover

  Strong, Real, Long

  "The Rickover Effect". Book by Theodore Rockwell, 1992.

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• Chess reflects the real world in miniature. Endeavor, struggle, success, and defeat - they are part of each game ever played.

  Bruce Pandolfini

  Real, Struggle, Games

  Bruce Pandolfini (2008). “Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• If, therefore, man has come into the world to search for God and, if he has found Him, to adhere to Him and to find repose in adhering to Him-man cannot search for Him and attain Him in this sensible and corporeal world, since God is spirit rather than body, and cannot be attained in intellectual abstraction, since one is able to conceive nothing similar to God, as he asserts-how can one, therefore, search for Him in order to find Him?

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Men, Order, Intellectual

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• It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.... There is a truth which is of Satan. Its essence is that under the semblance of truth it denies everything that is real. It lives upon hatred of the real world which is created and loved by God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Real, Liars, Lying

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• Only that which lasts forever is real. That which is done in the temple lasts forever; therefore, the temple is the real world. Most of what we experience "out there," such as sickness, wealth, poverty, fame, etc., lasts for only a short period of time, so it is not the real world.

  John H. Groberg

  Real, Forever, Poverty

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• My favorite part is just being able to say and do things that you can't do in real life, and behaving in a way that's just not really acceptable, in the real world.

  Michael Rapaport

  Real, World, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• President Obama is like a lost man who refuses to ask for directions. That's because he has never worked in the real world with people who create real jobs. He operates on theories and an ideology that is incapable of achieving his goals.

  Cal Thomas

  Jobs, Real, Men

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• In the real world, banks hang onto their money for fear of making bad loans, no matter how many bailouts or stimulus packages Washington passes.

  Dick Morris

  Real, World, Matter

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• Religion is unusual among divisive labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might have to respect them in spite of their concomitant unpleasantness. But there is no such evidence. To label people as death-deserving enemies because of disagreements about real world politics is bad enough. To do the same for disagreements about a delusional world inhabited by archangels, demons and imaginary friends is ludicrously tragic.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Real, People

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• We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund recipients of the insulated cocoon of academia.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, Law, People

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.134, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I like stories that exist both in the naturalistic world and in our imaginative lives, films are so immersive in that sense, we can explore how our characters think and dream, as well as how they exist in the real world.

  Dave McKean

  Dream, Real, Character

  Source: theculturalgutter.com

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• I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme.

  Ernesto Cardenal

  Real, Civilization, World

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Usually, the most difficult thing to do is photo-real stuff. Something that has to actually look like the real world, because it's just so difficult to do that. We're just so used to looking at the real world, our brains instantly see when something is not quite right.

  Dave McKean

  Real, Brain, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If there's any kind of morality, for me, it's about reality; what is reality? I have a hard time distinguishing what is valuable when it comes to the real world and the fantasy world. Like, should I invest my time in the ordinary world or the imaginary world?

  Sufjan Stevens

  Real, Hard Times, Ordinary World

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 31, 2011.

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• I know, that trends and all of those things and formulae that calculate what audiences want to see and what audiences don't want to see and various other demographic demarcations are the eccentric and ludicrous prerogative of Hollywood studios. But out there in the real world - by which I mean the rest of the world where we make truthful organic films, independent films unimpeded by interference - it's not about all those sort of calculating what is commercial. It's about wanting to say things and saying them in a way that will get through to people.

  Mike Leigh

  Real, Mean, Independent

  "Big Think Interview With Mike Leigh". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• In the real world, if you're in a car chase, you're going to hit a million things and your car is going to end up a total wreck by the end.

  Doug Liman

  Real, Car, World

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm used to something where you have to create an entire world, and I do like that process. I like getting the audience to believe that outside of the frame of your television set, there's a whole real world that exists, that is different from your day-to-day reality.

  Ronald D. Moore

  Real, Believe, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• Experience has shown repeatedly that a mathematical theory with a rich internal structure generally turns out to have significant implications for the understanding of the real world, often in ways no one could have envisioned before the theory was developed.

  William Thurston

  Real, Understanding, Way

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• I never wanted to be home-schooled. I didn't like the idea of being home-schooled. It would only separate myself even further from the real world, and that's never what I wanted.

  Asa Butterfield

  Real, Home, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Religious, Real

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• Let me formulate the artistic disposition as follows: it is reacting with one's ideal to the flaw in oneself and in the world, and somehow making that reaction formation solid enough in the medium so that it indeed becomes an improved bit of real world for others.

  Paul Goodman

  Real, World, Artistic

  Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 176), 1956.

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• Years ago, I was thinking about this type of character and what happens when you've lived in this sort of strange, surreal world where it's parties all the time and then you don't get to live there anymore. What do you do with the rest of your life?

  Anna Faris

  Party, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think there are things that aren't represented in movies that are a big part of everyone's life. We romanticize everything about people in movies. One of the things I don't like in movies is that people feel alone with their bodily functions in the real world, as if people in the movies don't do these things.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Real, Thinking, People

  "'Synecdoche, New York' Director Charlie Kaufman". Interview with Howard Feinstein, www.indiewire.com. October 24, 2008.

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• It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return.

  Carl Jung

  Real, Essentials, World

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• In a real world, the one outside the rarified atmosphere where Popes meet Archbishops of Canterbury, people no longer care whether somebody is an Anglican or a Roman Catholic. They already take it for granted that being a "believer" is more important than having a denominational name-tag any day of the week.

  Tom Harpur

  Real, Names, People

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