Real World Quotes - Page 22

• I am single for two reasons. First, I don't date girls who watch Real World because they already think they know me. Second, a lot of girls look at me as the slutty seven.

  Steven Hill

  Girl, Real, Thinking

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• In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that their ideology doesn't describe the real world.

  Maureen F. McHugh

  Real, Long, People

  Maureen F. McHugh (1997). “China Mountain Zhang”, p.29, Macmillan

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• Linguistics is our best tool for bringing about social change and SF is our best tool for testing such changes before they are implemented in the real world, therefore the conjunction of the two is desirable and should be useful.

  Suzette Haden Elgin

  Real, Two, Tools

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• Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it functions with inattention, it is often without memory. It is a flight from out of the real that does not always find a consistent unreal world.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Time, Memories, Real

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• What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

  Joseph Barbera

  Laughter, Real, Heartless

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be conceived, in line with physics, as a branch of the theoretical construction of the one real world and should adopt the same sober and cautious attitude toward hypothetic extensions of its foundation as is exhibited by physics.

  Hermann Weyl

  Attitude, Real, Drawing

  Hermann Weyl, Frank Wilczek (2009). “Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science”, p.235, Princeton University Press

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• The real world just doesn’t offer up as easily the carefully designed pleasures, the thrilling challenges, and the powerful social bonding afforded by virtual environments. Reality doesn’t motivate us as effectively. Reality isn’t engineered to maximize our potential. Reality wasn’t designed from the bottom up to make us happy.

  Jane McGonigal

  Powerful, Real, Challenges

  Jane McGonigal (2011). “Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World”, p.11, Penguin

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• After I won the title, I was confronted with the real world. People do not behave naturally anymore - hypocrisy is everywhere.

  Boris Spassky

  Real, Hypocrisy, People

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• That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.

  Frederik Pohl

  Real, Fiction, Literature

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• Science fiction is essentially a kind of fiction in which people learn more about how to live in the real world, visiting imaginary worlds unlike our own, in order to investigate by way of pleasurable thought-experiments how things might be done differently.

  Brian Stableford

  Real, Order, People

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• There is nothing mysterious about space-time. Every speck of matter, every idea, is a space-time event. We cannot experience anything or conceive of anything that exists outside of space-time. Just as experience precedes all awareness and creative expression, the visual language of our photographs should ever more strongly express the fourth dimensional structure of the real world.

  Wynn Bullock

  Photography, Real, Space

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• I have stared long enough at the glowing flat rectangles of computer screens. Let us give more time for doing things in the real world...plant a plant, walk the dogs, read a real book, go to the opera.

  Edward Tufte

  Dog, Real, Book

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• Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered

  Guy de Maupassant

  Dream, Real, Doors

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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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• 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 desire for perfect release and the real-world impossibility of perfect, whenever-you-want-it release had together produced a tension they could no longer stand.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Perfect, Desire

  David Foster Wallace (2012). “Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• It is time to face real world, even if it is harder and painful. I'd rather fly and crash, than just snuggle and sleep.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Real, Sleep, World

  "One Night @ the Call Center". Book by Chetan Bhagat, 2005.

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• My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Real, Feelings, Everyday

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• I get bitter, angry and disbelieving and I tell my kids there a lot of idiots out there. I also want them to know that being successful is not the real world - that their parents get treated better because they're on TV.

  Al Roker

  Real, Kids, Successful

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• The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

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• How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the 'real' world? I didn't need curing, and the world didn't, either; the only thing that did need curing was my understanding of my place in it. Without that understanding - without a sense of belonging to the real world - it was impossible to thrive in an imagined one.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Real, Order, Understanding

  Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.94, Macmillan

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