Real World Quotes

622 Real World quotes by 517 unique authors

Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but cannot… — E. O. Wilson
We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book,… — Roger Ebert
Yes.” She smiled, liking the word. “What I feel like right now—I’d compare it to waking from a dream and seeing the real world. It’s… — Nalini Singh
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from the… — Richard Dawkins
The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the… — C.S. Lewis
At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the… — Virginia Woolf
It felt good to be writing in her own room, in her own bed. To get lost in the World of Mages and stay lost.… — Rainbow Rowell
Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very… — Desmond Tutu
In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries… — Walter Wink
I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts… — Erwin Schrodinger
The real world of American society is one which it is very misleading to call simply a democracy. Of course, it is in a sense… — Noam Chomsky
The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions. — Tim Ferriss
Our normal expectations about reality are created by a social consensus. We are taught how to see and understand the world. The trick of socialization… — Carlos Castaneda
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world. — Andre Maurois
Students today need experience to get a job, and they need a job to get experience. The Chegg Champion program provides students with a real-world… — Osman Rashid
I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring. — Bjarke Ingels
I consider most of the talent in the financial world to be suboptimal. It could be better placed earning its living in the real world. — Jeremy Grantham
Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do maths by hand… — Conrad Wolfram
To be connected to the real world is healthy and important. — Jesse Schell
Pictures can be devastating. Who allowed John Kerry to get himself photographed windsurfing in a flowered swimsuit? Anyone in the real world in that operation? — Jack Germond
I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end, you… — Norm MacDonald
To my mind, the most successful and the best comic book illustrators are those who translate the real world into a consistent code. If you… — Dave Gibbons
I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world. — Issey Miyake
To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century. If school is preparation for the… — Adora Svitak
Business students are very oriented to playing a role in the real world and accomplishing something, not training themselves to be scholars and contribute to… — Janet Yellen

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