Real Things Quotes - Page 15

• The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Real, Men

  John Ruskin (1859). “Modern Painters: (pt.4) Modern painters of many things”, p.83

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• Jenni Fagan is the real thing, and The Panopticon is a real treat: maturely alive to the pains of maturing, and cleverly amused as well as appalled by what it finds in the world.

  Andrew Motion

  Pain, Real, Alive

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• I was seduced by secrets, which are to true love as artificial sweetener is to sugar, calorie-free but in the long run carcinogenic, not the real thing, and only a peculiar aftertaste in the mouth to tell you so, to warn you.

  Fay Weldon

  Running, Real, Long

  Fay Weldon (1993). “Life Force”

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• What parents teach is themselves, as models of what is human - by their moods, their reactions, their facial expressions and actions. These are the real things parents need to be aware of, and of how they affect their children. Allow them to know you, and it might become easier for them to learn about themselves.

  Magda Gerber

  Children, Real, Expression

  Magda Gerber (1998). “Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect”

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• There's the caveman in us. The caveman in you says, "I want direct contact. I don't want a picture." The caveman in our body says once in a while, we have to go outside. We have to meet real people, talk to real people, and do real things.

  Michio Kaku

  Real, People, Body

  "US Futurologist Michio Kaku: 'Eternal Life Does Not Violate the Laws of Physics'". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. September 28, 2012.

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• There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Real, Law, Giving

  Alice Hegan Rice (2013). “My Pillow Book”, p.32, Read Books Ltd

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• Stock prices aren't real things. They're just froth on a wave. The wave is the only real thing, which investors forget when they're watching the ticket slither by.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Real, Tickets, Forget

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• Ain't nothing like the real thing.

  Marvin Gaye

  Real

  Song: Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing, 2006

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• The real champions in life are so humble and gracious. They just continue doing what they do without all the posturing. If you've got the real thing, you don't have to flaunt a loud imitation.

  Denis Waitley

  Real, Humble, Champion

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• When the child goes out, it is the world itself that offers itself to him. Let us take the child out to show him real things instead of making objects which represent ideas and closing them up in cupboards.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Real, Ideas

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• What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.

  Ramakrishna

  Real, Persistence, Practice

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• The real things to know is that folks will stand to lose more than they will to win. That’s the most important percentage there is. I mean, if they lose, they’re willin’ to lose everything. If they win, they’re usually satisfied to win enough to pay for dinner and a show. The best gamblers know that.

  Puggy Pearson

  Real, Mean, Winning

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• Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They are not the real thing. In fact, you place so little value on experience that when what your experience of God differs from what you've heard of God, you automatically discard the experience and own the words, when it should be just the other way around.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Truth, Real, Feelings

  "Conversations with God, Book 1: An Uncommon Dialogue". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, 1995.

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• You only do exercises in art school. That's not the real thing. A little bit tells you so much. You have to find your own self. And you don't know what you are! But that's what you have to search for.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Art, Real

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• Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised, unmoved when the see the real thing. For photographic images tend to subtract feeling from something we experience at first hand and the feelings they do arouse are, largely, not those we have in real life. Often something disturbs us more in photographed form than it does when we actually experience it.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Real, Knowing

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.146, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• The digital sunset always looks better than the real thing, always. Because a sunset generated by the basic package of yellow sun and blue sky is unreliable. Today it may be stunning, hypnotic. Tomorrow it may be lifeless and dull, a white sky scorched with yellow. Tomorrow the sky will be velvet.

  Will Christopher Baer

  Real, Sunset, Blue

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• New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't have to pursue "the real thing."

  Umberto Eco

  Memories, Real, Past

  Umberto Eco (2014). “Travels in Hyperreality”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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