Really True Quotes

• Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

  Milton Friedman

  Self, Political, Economic

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• When we let go of all our notions about things, everything becomes really true.

  Kosho Uchiyama

  Letting Go, Notion

  Kōshō Uchiyama (1993). “Opening the Hand of Thought: Approach to Zen”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I had no plan for that year but it wound up being one of the most important years of my football coaching career. It hit me along the way that I needed to really get at the heart of what's really true to myself. And then I was able to mold it and shape it in the years at SC to become the approach and the concept and the culture that we try to create here at Seattle.

  Pete Carroll

  Football, Heart, Years

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• Whatever way you put it, I am here only because my world is here. When I took my first breath, my world was born with me. When I die, my world dies with me. In other words, I wasn't born into a world that was already here before me, nor do I live simply as one individual among millions of other individuals, nor do I leave everything behind to live on after me. People live thinking of themselves as members of a group or society. However, this isn't really true. Actually, I bring my own world into existence, live it out, and take it with me when I die.

  Kosho Uchiyama

  Thinking, People, Groups

  Kōshō Uchiyama (1993). “Opening the Hand of Thought: Approach to Zen”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• When is a game more than a game? So often, we pay lip service to the uplifting power of sports, the teamwork, the camaraderie, the lessons in taming one's own ego for the sake of the group. But you have to wonder, how often is that still really true?

  Michel Martin

  Uplifting, Sports, Teamwork

  "Lebron James: 'More Than A Game' - Part II". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 15, 2009.

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• If it's really true, that the museum at Liberty University has dinosaur fossils which are labelled as being 3000 years old, then that is an educational disgrace. It is debauching the whole idea of a university, and I would strongly encourage any members of Liberty University who may be here to leave and go to a proper university.

  Richard Dawkins

  Educational, Museums, Years

  "Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science". Book by Richard Dawkins, 2015.

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• There is this cliche of, "Oh, your professional life is fine, but your romantic life isn't." But, that's also really true of me and all my friends. You don't want to not do something that's relatable simply because you're worried that it might be cliche.

  Mindy Kaling

  Want, Might, Life Is

  "Mindy Kaling Talks Acting in and Producing THE MINDY PROJECT, Returning to THE OFFICE, GAME OF THRONES Obsessions and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 30, 2012.

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• The theory of Zen is non-competition. But that is not really true at all. People who practice Zen are very competitive. They are competing against emptiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Practice, People, Competition

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• The sad fact is that we're not educated to be aware and therefore able to question the reality created by our thinking. We don't realize that we must take responsibility for our thoughts to find out if they are really true, and then set aside or at least acknowledge those that are simply opinion and bias. We don't recognize that most thoughts are ultimately judgments, and that the truth of any judgment is how that judgment makes us feel.

  Richard Moss

  Responsibility, Reality, Thinking

  Richard Moss “Inside-Out Healing”, Hay House, Inc

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• It is like football with coaches, like, 'We're only going to think about the next game.' It is really true, all you think is, 'Okay, we have to make a good next episode.'

  Matt Stone

  Football, Thinking, Games

  "IGN Exclusive Interview: South Park's Matt Stone". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. October 3, 2006.

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• They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Directors, Actors, Television

  "Charlie Hunnam Talks FRANKIE GO BOOM, the Success of SONS OF ANARCHY, His Desire to Direct, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 13, 2012.

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• The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Writing, Ideas

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2006.

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• We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.

  Pericles

  Fall, Needs, Delight

  "Eternal Greece". Book by Rex Warner, 1961.

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• The great opposition to reading is what I allow to fill my time instead of reading. To say we have no time to read is not really true; we simply have chosen to use our time for other things, or have allowed our time to be filled to the exclusion of reading. So don't add reading to your to-do list. Just stop doing the things that keep you from doing it. But read.

  James Emery White

  Reading, Add, Use

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• We often equate charity with visiting the sick, taking in casseroles to those in need, or sharing our excess with those who are less fortunate. But really, true charity is much, much more. Real charity is not something you give away; it is something that you acquire and make a part of yourself. And when the virtue of charity becomes implanted in your heart, you are never the same again.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Real, Heart, Giving

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• I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them, get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite it's really true. It takes confidence and courage to know that and then commit to it.

  Claire Danes

  Thinking, Opposites, People

  "Steve Martin and Claire Danes". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 19, 2005.

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• The first thing I can remember I ever wanted was to go to the United States. And for reasons that are as conventional as you can imagine: I wanted to know if it was really true that it was the land of opportunity, of democracy, and individual liberty.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Opportunity, Land, Democracy

  Christopher Hitchens (2017). “Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.46, Melville House

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• If you are really true to yourself and really follow your intuition in the most rigorous way, there is a moment that becomes universal, that reaches everybody. That’s the real magic of Björk-she teaches us the courage to be ourselves.

  Marina Abramovic

  Real, Intuition, Magic

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• I have a woman who teaches me what love is every day. Maybe that sentiment is possible to fake, but for me it's really true.

  Tom Hanks

  Love Is, Fake, Teach

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• Mindfulness is the primary tool in that we get a little space between ourselves and the thoughts and then we actually can be more responsive, as in: Do I want to listen to that? Do I want to ignore it? Do I want to say "no thank you". Do I want to inquire if that's really true or helpful? So we start with mindfulness and we're not engaging, because as soon as we do that, we've given the critic authority. Instead, we want to notice the critic but not give it any attention, not really give it much value.

  Mark Coleman

  Space, Giving, Mindfulness

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• When I think back on it, I have a sense of relaxation, as if in the seventies no one had to try to be anyone other than who they were. I'm sure that's not really true, but that's how I remember it, and I suppose it might be relatively true.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Thinking, Relaxation, Trying

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• If it was really true that predation is God's will, it would have to follow for Christians that the life of Jesus -- what after all is the self-disclosure of God -- manifested and vindicated this predator/prey relationship. Such a gospel would be substantially different from the one we currently have.... Instead of raising Lazarus from the dead, the Predator Jesus could only comment that death is God's blessing. Instead of preaching the good news of the coming kingdom of God, the proclamation would run: "Eat and be eaten.

  Andrew Linzey

  Christian, Running, Jesus

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• Raising children changes everything. It's a complete cliché to say that, but it's really true.

  Christopher Gorham

  Children, Raising Children

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• There is a belief that children drop out of school because they're needed by their families to work, or the little girls are needed to take care of younger siblings. It turns out that's not really true.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Girl, Children, Sibling

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• That old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true. Even if all of the lyrics are understood, they seem to connect with it really well and in some ways, more so.

  William Fitzsimmons

  Way, Language, Adages

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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