5,320 Quotes About Real

  • Author Chuck Klosterman
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    As more and more people recognize the level of violence involved and the consequences of CTE [chronic traumatic encephelopathy, a degenerative brain disorder], they're obviously going to say "We don't want this to be a part of culture." And they overlook the fact that there's a huge swath of the populace where physicality is still a real common thing.

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  • Author Daniel Kahneman
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    That's one of the real dangers of leader selection in many organizations: leaders are selected for overconfidence.

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  • Author Dean Kamen
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    Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.

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  • Author Dean Koontz
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    I realized you might make money at writing, and you might even make a living at it. So after that I didn't write stories just for the class but wrote them for the purpose of submitting them somewhere, and at some point in the process, I began writing them just to please myself and that's where you begin to see the real value of a life of writing.

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  • Author Dean Koontz
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    In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and all things virtual are also malleable.

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  • Author Dean Koontz
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    When I'm in the middle of a book it can go up from there. When you're putting in those hours, the real world kind of fades and the world you're creating becomes almost more real to you than the outside world.

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  • Author Dean Koontz
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    Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.

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  • Author Deborah King
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    When people tell me they're trying to meditate, I always know they don't have a format yet that works. I encourage a real meditative format that you use daily, because meditation is incremental and it only works if done every day.

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  • Author Duke Kahanamoku
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    In Hawaii, we greet friends, loved ones or strangers with Aloha, which means love. Aloha is the key word to the universal spirit of real hospitality, which makes Hawaii renowned as the world's center of understanding and fellowship. Try meeting or leaving people with Aloha. You'll be surprised by their reaction. I believe it and it is my creed. Aloha to you.

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