Real World Quotes - Page 31

• We suppose that could be considered a hedged position for the awards committee, one that would never occur in the hard sciences such as physics and chemistry, where a prize shared among three with divergent views would be an embarrassing mistake or a bad joke. While a Nobel Prize might well be the culmination of a life’s work, shouldn’t the work accurately describe the real world?

  Seth Klarman

  Real, Mistake, Awards

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• The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and those who, numbed by isolation and despair, now seek meaning in a mythical world of intuition, a world that is no longer reality-based, a world of magic.

  Chris Hedges

  Real, America, Intuition

  Chris Hedges (2008). “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.

  Anthony Holden

  Real, Intelligent, Track

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• 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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• Money values do not simply mirror the state of affairs in the real world; valuation is a positive act that makes an impact on the course of events. Monetary and real phenomena are connected in a reflexive fashion; that is, they influence each other mutually. The reflexive relationship manifests itself most clearly in the use and abuse of credit.

  George Soros

  Fashion, Real, Impact

  George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.17, John Wiley & Sons

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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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• When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.

  Aldous Huxley

  Real, World, Truth Is

  Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• In the real world of competition, the players want to compete and they want to compete at the very highest level.

  Vince McMahon

  Real, Player, Competition

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• I just don't like to go out and deal with the real world. It's scary.

  David Spade

  Real, Scary, World

  "Swinging For the Fences With David Spade in The Benchwarmers". Interview With Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. April 3, 2006.

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• Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, Mind, Society

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• The professional conducts his business in the real world. Adversity, injustice, bad hops and rotten calls, even good breaks and lucky bounces all comprise the ground over which the campaign must be waged. The field is level, the professional understands, only in heaven.

  Steven Pressfield

  Real, Adversity, Heaven

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.81, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Baker has done it again! Building on the core principles that he advanced in Professional's Guide to Value Pricing and The Firm of the Future, Ron Baker has again evolved thought leadership on the critical dynamics of value and pricing. Baker's latest work, Pricing on Purpose: Creating and Capturing Value, provides real-world examples and practical strategies that provide a framework for pricing optimization. His clarity of purpose and passionate call to action resonates in today's intellectual capital economy.

  Thomas Finneran

  Real, Clarity Of Purpose, Creating

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• The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Real, Media, World

  Marshall McLuhan (1969). “Counter blast [by] Marshall McLuhan”

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• A film must have two elements - it must deal with the real world and show how it could be made better.

  Rouben Mamoulian

  Real, Two, Elements

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• The rule, I think, is: Do your homework, learn what there is to learn about the real world, and then when you get in the room, forget it all.

  Michael Loceff

  Real, Thinking, World

  "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

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• Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.

  PZ Myers

  Real, World, Claims

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• We are a nation of physical animals who have forgotten how much we enjoy being that. We are cushioned by this kind of make-believe, unreal world and have no idea what we can survive because we are never challenged or tested.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Believe, Animal, Ideas

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• There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

  Nikolai Lobachevsky

  Real, Math, Science

  "The Foundations of Geometry and the Non-Euclidean Plane". Book by George Edward Martin, 1975.

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• The only reality I can possibly know is the world as I perceive it at this moment. The only reality you can possibly know is the world as you see it at this moment. And the only certainty is that those perceived realities are different. There are as many “real worlds” as there are people!

  Carl Rogers

  Real, People, Different

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We don't measure our people's success in how they're doing in government. We measure how they are doing in the real world and the private sector economy.

  Bobby Jindal

  Real, Government, People

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2015.

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• ..the real world's all we've got. Believers in the supernatural claim to have special wisdom about the world. But real wisdom means knowing truth from falsehood, knowing the difference between evidence and wishful thinking. Yes, the real world is mysterious and sometimes frightening. But would the supernatural make it better? The real world has beauty, poetry, love and the joy of honest discovery. Isn't that enough?

  John Stossel

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• Ultimately, all I wanted was for players to feel like they were in the real world. I wanted them to be able to apply real world common sense to the problems confronting them, and I thought recreating real world locations would encourage that kind of thinking. There's also just a real power, a real thrill, when you fire up a game and see a place you've been or want to go, and then get to do all the stuff you WANT to do there but know you'll get arrested if you try! If that isn't the stuff of fantasy - far more than exploring some goofy dwarven mine or alien spaceship - I don't know what is!

  Warren Spector

  Real, Player, Thinking

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