Best Real World Quotes

The real world is where I get to educate and entertain myself. I go and touch the real world and touch real people. That’s my way into movies.

Every bubble consists of a trend that can be observed in the real world and a misconception relating to that trend. The two elements interact with each other in a reflexive manner.

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 real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future.

the world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.

Nothing happens in the ‘real’ world unless it first happens in the images in our heads

If you want to be alive and live in a real world, if you want to have any emotions at all in your life, you must willingly, knowingly, repeatedly set yourself up for things possibly not ending up ‘happily ever after.

We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy’s impossible.

I came to poetry because I felt I couldn’t live properly in the real world.

The real world out there isn’t nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don’t swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you without takinga long hard look at it yourselves.

We are good if our peers think we’re great. But we are great if the real world thinks we’re good.

What can we say to people who think that dreams are the real world and this one is an illusion. Perhaps they’re right.

Asleep vision (dreaming) is perception that is not tied down to anything in the real world; waking perception is something like dreaming with a little more commitment to what’s in front of you.

Most elected officials cling to their ideological biases, despite the real-world facts that disprove their theories time and again. Most have no common sense, and most never acknowledge that they were wrong.

In the real world, illiquid assets carry a discount.

The film from the beginning is not the real world; it’s an imaginary world. And this imaginary world is both inside and outside the normal world.

I was very fortunate to be at a wealthy institution. I do recognize the drawbacks and limitations of the academic world but it’s basically the world I grew up in and there’s no way in which I would have been able to survive in the so-called real world.

We’ve spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was a myth from the very beginning.

I relaxed. I would imagine in your world, girls are much different than here in the real world. I’m sure if you spent some time with the everyday girl, you would find I am not unique. He grinned at me. The everyday girl is who writes me fan mail and buys out my concerts. They are the girls who yell my name and run after me like crazed animals. You’ve not even tried to sneak into my room and squirt your perfume on my pillow.

Now, we can live in this little, liberal bubble bath where everybody’s supposed to like everybody and do all this stuff and understand our pain and know our history. But that, maybe, works in your dorm, that doesn’t work in the real world, and people need to get out of all that.

Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.

I can play a lot of things, but I haven’t mastered any one. I use music really as a form of raw expression; escape from the real world.

Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift are heavy. They say Yes, they say No; whereas I shift and change and am seen through in a second. If they meet a housemaid she looks at them without laughing. But she laughs at me. They know what to say if spoken to. They laugh really; they get angry really; while I have to look first and do what other people do when they have done it.

Education means the ability to think independently and creatively, and development of the skill of applying one’s knowledge in dealing with people and situations in the real world.

I would vote for the man who’s lived life, who’s done different occupations, who’s been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I’d vote for experience, honest experience.

My brand of fantasy is completely devoid of the traditional notions of magic as ritual. Instead I see the fantastic as a meta-layer of existence beyond the real world.

Our real world has evolved. It’s become something much different, and inadvertently about healthcare, and about what it means to have good health, and to be able to have good health.

A lot of [George Saunders] early stories now feel prophetic. Take the recent election [of Donald Trump]. Historians in 100 years might write about it as being the first internet election, in which what happened was actually an expression in the real world of a virtual reality. And you’ve been writing about that subject for a while.

I go to the real world, not the Internet.

Self-actualized people…live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.

The real world doesn’t reward perfectionists. It rewards people who get things done.

The trouble with you and me, is that we don’t live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

The idea to have both something that belongs to what we call supernatural and, at the same time, is anchored in the real world, I think it gives more strength to whatever has to do with the real world and whatever has to do with some transcendence of the material world.

There’s something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

There are so many glamorous actresses, but you know what? In the real world, nobody looks like that.