Reality Quotes - Page 29

• What drives intellectuals and professors crazy is somebody with a high school diploma who made a fortune in business. They agree with Lenin, who thought success in business was a matter of luck, when in reality it is a matter of genius.

  James Cook

  Crazy, School, Luck

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• Numeracy: 1. The art of putting numbers to things, that is, assigning amounts to variables in order that practical decisions may be reach. 2. That aspect of education (beyond mere literacy) which takes account of quantitative aspects of reality.

  Garrett Hardin

  Art, Numbers, Order

  Garrett James Hardin (1985). “Filters Against Folly: How to Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent”, Penguin Group USA

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• Things that have never happened before are bound to occur with some regularity. You must always be prepared for the unexpected, including sudden, sharp downward swings in markets and the economy. Whatever adverse scenario you can contemplate, reality can be far worse.

  Seth Klarman

  Swings, Unexpected, Economy

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• If you turn on the television, you'll find the mothers of the most obvious criminals that man could ever diagnose, and they all think their sons are innocent. That's simple psychological denial. The reality is too painful to bear, so you just distort it until it's bearable. We all do that to some extent, and it's a common psychological misjudgment that causes terrible problems.

  Charlie Munger

  Mother, Son, Simple

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• I have a name for people who went to the extreme efficient market theory-which is "bonkers". It was an intellectually consistent theory that enabled them to do pretty mathematics. So I understand its seductiveness to people with large mathematical gifts. It just had a difficulty in that the fundamental assumption did not tie properly to reality.

  Charlie Munger

  Names, Ties, People

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• Genes which allow females to be less inhibited leave fewer copies of themselves than genes which persuade them to remain highly selective. Among males, the best strategy is exactly the opposite one. The maximum advantage goes to those males with the fewest inhibitions. "Love 'em and leave 'em" is not so much a nasty peice of male chauvinist piggery as an accurate reflection of biological reality.

  Lyall Watson

  Reflection, Opposites, Males

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• Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash.

  Adam Savage

  Writing, Brain, Cash

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• The assumption of perfect knowledge is very far from reality ... a lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional.

  George Soros

  Evil, Perfect, World

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• You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.

  Adyashanti

  Struggle, Loses, Disagree

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• Ideological thinking becomes emancipated from the reality that we perceive with our five senses, and insists on a 'truer' reality concealed behind all perceptible things, dominating them from this place of concealment and requiring a sixth sense that enables us to become aware of it.

  Hannah Arendt

  Thinking, Five Senses, Sixth Sense

  Hannah Arendt (2017). “The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.553, Penguin UK

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• The reality of our business is that for every actor who's rolled up his tent and given up and gone home, the next day you hear about some shoe salesman at Macy's who had this audition and now he's Harrison Ford. There's always that carrot out there in our business.

  Scott Bakula

  Home, Shoes, Next Day

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• My wife always says that I will be stuck with this forever: I am the difficult one. With Jack Nicholson they always said it was drugs. Warren Beatty is supposed to have screwed everything that jumped off the curve. I'll tell you, in reality a few of us had as many girls as Warren.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Girl, Curves, Wife

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• Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.

  Ben Shapiro

  People, Freedom Of Speech, Majority

  Ben Shapiro (2015). “Ben Shapiro: Volume I”, p.54, Creators Publishing

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• This is why it might be more useful to understand the proliferation of interactive media as an opportunity for renaissance: a moment when we have the ability to step out of the story altogether. Renaissances are historical instances of widespread recontextualisation. People in a variety of different arts, philosophies and sciences have the ability to reframe their reality. Renaissance literally means 'rebirth'. It is the rebirth of old ideas in a new context.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Art, Philosophy, Mean

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• Only by recognizing the boundaries of our socially constructed scientific-technological reality can we transcend them in imagination and then achieve effective human action.

  Jerome Ravetz

  Imagination, Action, Boundaries

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• 'Fire' does not matter, 'earth' and 'air' and 'water' do not matter. 'I' do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great transformations of the world, but he does not see them as they were seen when man looked upon reality for the first time. Their names come to his lips and he smiles as he tastes them, thinking he knows them in the naming.

  Roger Zelazny

  Men, Thinking, Names

  "Lord of Light". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1967.

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• Reality is modest, it won't be seen naked.

  Deepak Chopra

  Naked, Modest

  Deepak Chopra, Leonard Mlodinow (2011). “War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not”, p.291, Harmony

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• Although the world places a premium on the latest things, some realities are discovered by looking into the past.

  Max Anders

  Past, World, Premium

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• Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.

  Garrison Keillor

  Approval Rating, Faces, Nations

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• Wonder opens and unravels reality.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Wonder

  Barbara Marciniak (2004). “Path of Empowerment: Pleiadian Wisdom for a World in Chaos”, p.282, New World Library

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• What does it mean to be human? It means we are created in the image of God for the glorious reality of being in permanent fellowship with Him.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Mean, Doe, Fellowship

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• You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Sin, Savior, Ifs

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2015

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• Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, May, Shallow

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.43, Penguin

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• Much of the appeal of feminism is that it encourages women to do what they always felt like doing anyway: take everything personally. But to succeed at the highest level, you need some objectivity, which feminism hates. Feminists see objective reality as a conspiracy out to make them feel bad about themselves.

  Steve Sailer

  Hate, Objectivity, Feminist

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• The concept of a 'just' or 'fair' price is devoid of any scientific meaning; it is a disguise for wishes, a striving for a state of affairs different from reality.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Wish, Different, Affair

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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