Real World Quotes - Page 27

• The most important habit is solitude, quiet time. People who enter their day by taking 45 minutes or an hour for themselves - meditation, prayer, inspirational reading, taking a walk - before they go for it in the real world do best.

  Ken Blanchard

  Prayer, Real, Reading

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• In the real world there are many tones, from white at one extreme, through a large number of medium tones to black at the other extreme. To achieve a three-dimensional effect on paper you need just three - white, black and medium gray.

  Stan Smith

  Real, White, Numbers

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• Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Real, World

  Hajo Düchting, Wassily Kandinsky (1993). “Wassily Kandinsky, 1866-1944: A Revolution in Painting”, Taschen

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• Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.

  Steven Pressfield

  Real, Validation, Empowering

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.71, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material that are the real world, from the ugliest to the most beautiful, everything that has character and expression, from the crudest and most brutal to the gentlest and most delicate; everything that speaks to us in its capacity as life.

  Asger Jorn

  Beautiful, Real, Character

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• I can't blame the drivers for making the move, and I can't blame the owners for being upset. Keep in mind, this ain't like the real world where you work somewhere and you can stay 40 years. Being able to see where you are going just a few years ahead is a pretty cool deal, and it doesn't happen too often in any sport, much less stock car racing.

  Ken Schrader

  Sports, Real, Moving

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• When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air, and high speed motor cars and television, all the animation - a world apart from a little square of canvas that you smear paint on.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Real, Thinking, Squares

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• Contrary to the romantic way in which our history is/has been portrayed, politicians are NOT 'men of good conscience.' In the real world, it takes a psychopath to want to rule over other human beings. Unless you want to define the word 'service' in the context of what a bull does to a cow, in no way are the efforts of politicians in this regard any kind of 'service'.

  Edward Britton

  Real, Men, Effort

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• I don't like games. You're robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Children, Real, Games

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• The connection between health and productivity at work is intuitively obvious but has not been demonstrated to the satisfaction of either researchers or corporate financial officers. Ronald Kessler and Paul Stang help to bridge the usual gap between research and the marketplace with the help of a top-notch group of the best 'real-world' investigators obtainable-all in the cause of making the case that employee health should be treated as an investment in business performance-thus creating the new discipline of health and productivity management.

  Sean Sullivan

  Real, Bridges, Creating

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• My lack of access to the real world has been replaced completely by books, and it can’t be healthy to live in a land of happily ever afters.

  Colleen Hoover

  Real, Book, Land

  Colleen Hoover (2013). “Hopeless”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• People say 'I love Artists', but what they really know about Artists? They've ever thought about sharing the real madness with us? I believe those extreme passions/emotions in me separated from the real world is the sauce to pull out the inspirations out of me that touch the core of people's hearts, which is usually wandering about deep inside of you unconsciously covered with the social taboo called 'common sense'.

  Hiroko Sakai

  Real, Believe, Inspiration

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• The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi.

  Criss Jami

  Real, Men, Sea

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.2, Criss Jami

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• I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it. The one thing I insist on with my own writing is that I won't let magic solve my characters' real world problems. The solutions have to come from the characters themselves.

  Charles de Lint

  Real, Writing, Character

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• Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with a multitude of situations that can arise in a person's life. The beauty of them is that their analogies resonate so deeply and they also entertain while they teach.

  Charles de Lint

  Real, Thinking, Analogies

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• An oil crisis looms, prices are spiking - and our president is extolling algae. After Solyndra, Keystone and promises of seaweed in their gas tanks, Americans sense a president so ideologically antipathetic to fossil fuels - which we possess in staggering abundance - that he is utterly unserious about the real world of oil in which the rest of us live.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Real, Oil, Promise

  "Obama's oil flimflam". jewishworldreview.com. March 15, 2012.

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• Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Real, Interesting, Judgement

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert... I don't live inside buildings because buildings are dead places where nothing grows, where water doesn't flow, and where life stops. I don't want to live in a dead place. People say that I don't live in a real world, but it's modern Americans who live in a fake world, because they have stepped outside the natural circle of life.

  Eustace Conway

  Real, Men, Fake World

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• Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised.

  Ai Weiwei

  Real, Thinking, Government

  "China's censorship can never defeat the internet". www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2012.

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• I didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Real, Writing, School

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• Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it's going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Real, Writing, Thinking

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• I like to work in the real world, so I do a lot of searching or just simple looking. But I'm not above tweaking reality and making something up. I don't think there are any rules in art. It's not so much what you see as it is the significance you, the artist, see in it.

  Keith Carter

  Photography, Art, Real

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• A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Imagination, Despair

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.163, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In the real world, it is hard to be taken seriously as a woman. Use your brain and be smart about your choices. There's nothing wrong with being a good girl - it's actually very attractive and sexy.

  Faith Hill

  Girl, Sexy, Smart

  "We Love Faith Hill". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. October 1, 2006.

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• When you're playing cards you can't constantly think about what the money costs you in the real world. You can't be constantly concerned about that if you want to be successful.

  Daniel Negreanu

  Real, Successful, Thinking

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