Being Real Quotes - Page 17

• Do you have to feel something for it to be real or mean anything? Can you touch your dreams, taste your imagination.

  Tim Lebbon

  Dream, Real, Mean

  Tim Lebbon (2003). “Fears Unnamed”

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• I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be real, based upon observation, eked out by good explanatory diagrams and models, and conveyed by a teacher whose own knowledge has been acquired by a study of the facts; and not the mere catechismal parrot-work which too often usurps the place of elementary teaching.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1882). “Science and Culture: And Other Essays”

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• It gets better. It seems hard, you know, I think being different is always gonna be a tough climb. There's always gonna be people that are scared of it. But at the end of the day you give those bullies, those people, that are so ignorant, if you give them the power to affect you, you're letting them win. And they don't deserve that. What you're doing by being yourself is you're keeping it real, and you're being really brave.

  Adam Lambert

  Bullying, Being Yourself, Real

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• The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.

  Tony Robbins

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Identity

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• If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be real scientific data, not mere anecdote. As with the face on Mars and alien abductions, better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Real, Data

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.263, Ballantine Books

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• I don't plan on being disappointed. We plan on being really good, and obviously we plan on winning.

  Gregg Troy

  Sports, Inspiration, Winning

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• I have an amazing mother who's a real tough cookie. She taught me not to get emotional about [sexism in Hollywood], just be really practical and objective. Later, in the privacy of my own home, maybe I'll bawl or break some dishes, but you just have to keep going. It's not about fighting, it's about educating.

  Zoe Saldana

  Mom, Mother, Real

  "Motherhood Quotes from the Pages of ELLE". www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.

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• Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Character, Society

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.119, Harvard University Press

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• The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Friendship, Success, Real

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• When I read 'Be real, don't get caught acting,' I thought, 'How the hell do you do that?'.

  Billy Connolly

  Real, Acting, Hell

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• What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

  Paul Volcker

  Business, Real, Dancing

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• A filmmaker has to have great vision in order to tell a compelling story that is both distinctive and stylistic. I remember playing all movies in my head hundreds of times before they were ever made. You have to see it in your imagination. It has to be real to you.

  Nicholas Ozeki

  Real, Order, Imagination

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think what I love about science fiction and what sci-fi can be really good at is obviously you're working with outlandish concepts that have very little to do with the real world, like time travel for instance.

  Rian Johnson

  Real, Thinking, Fiction

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I'm constantly scared. I'm constantly fearful of what's to come and people don't realize that just because you're doing something doesn't mean that you're fearless but you get up every day and you do it. It takes a lot of courage to be real.

  Adrienne Bailon

  Real, Mean, People

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• By choosing recovery and risking to be real, we set the healthy boundaries that say, "I am in charge of my recovery and my life, and no one else on this Earth is.

  Charles L. Whitfield

  Real, Recovery, Healthy

  Charles L. Whitfield (2010). “Boundaries and Relationships: Knowing, Protecting and Enjoying the Self”, p.59, Health Communications, Inc.

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• In being realistic we do not always have to be pessimistic. Christ never blinked his eyes at bad things. But he never became so obsessed with human evil that he lost faith in man.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Eye, Men, Worry

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• If you look at the history of popular music, the most successful musicians have started out being really marginal and esoteric. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Madonna. Prince. Bruce Springsteen. Fleetwood Mac. David Bowie. Public Enemy. Nirvana.

  Moby

  Successful, Enemy, Musician

  "David Bowie EW Cover: Inside David Bowie and Moby's out-of-this-world 2002 tour". Interview with Jeff Gordinier, ew.com. January 11, 2016.

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• If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

  Louis Lecoin

  Peace, War, Doe

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• Ride the energy of your own unique spirit.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Unique

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• Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange.
  If we accept them we will never win.
  Since being realistic, as in mundane combats fistic,
  We will get a bloody nose and that's a sin.

  George S. Patton

  War, Army, Winning

  "Absolute War". Poem by George S. Patton, Stanza 1. "The Patton Papers 1940-1945". Book edited by Martin Blumenson, p. 492, 1996.

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• A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be real.

  William Beckett

  Real, Hard Work, Measure Of Success

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• There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Real, Opportunity, Men

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• I learned a tremendous amount about what was important to me as a head coach in that I was not in charge. I didn't have final say about what was going on, and I was always having to represent other people's views, and it was very difficult to be real, to be authentic, to be true because there were a number of people who had say about what was going on.

  Pete Carroll

  Real, Views, Numbers

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Knowing what matters most, what I call "being real," is the alpha and omega for leaders.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Real, Knowing, What Matters

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I remember being a teenager and being really impressed by "let's sit around and b*tch" people, and I have so little time for those people nowadays.

  Amanda Palmer

  Teenager, People, Littles

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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