The Real World Quotes

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde

Society, Real, Mental

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Real, Everything, Ideas

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.
Bob Dylan

Power, Real, Thought

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
Robert A. Heinlein

Real, Strange, Wonderful

When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.
Henry Rollins

Yourself, Real, Doubt

When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.
William J. Clinton

Work, Politics, Good

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
Albert Ellis

Good, Real, Getting

Being offended is part of being in the real world.
Courtney Love

Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.
Kathie Lee Gifford

Love, Sorry, Saying

I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.
Temple Grandin

Change, Real, Makes

In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.
Paul Ryan

Real, Moral, Individual

So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.
Bill Watterson

Food, Real, Beyond

I think that you should definitely listen to what people say, because everyone says it: High school is not the real world.
Katy Perry

School, Real, Everyone

I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son. Why aren't there any tests out there on the safety of how vaccines are administered in the real world, six at a time? Why have only two of the 36 shots our kids receive been looked at for their relationship to autism?
Jenny McCarthy

Time, Children, Real

When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
Carly Fiorina

Change, Real, Mean

Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?
William Glasser

Work, Help, Real

In the real world, children love me.
Jackie Chan

Love, Children, Real

I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun.
Alan Alda

Love, Good, Fun

When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.
William J. Clinton

Politics, Time, Good

I wouldn't say Malkovich is totally insane, but he's not living in the real world. He's living in his world, which is a fine world to live in apparently.
Martha Plimpton

Live, Real, Living

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.
Tony Blair

Reality, Real, Become

It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Real, Possible, Quite

You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.
Chris Christie

Real, Between, Point

I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.
Sonia Sotomayor

Government, Forget, Real

As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.
Jeffrey Kluger

Time, Experience, Moving

Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They're almost like tangent lines - those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.
Barbara Corcoran

Great, Nothing, Real

When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.
Christopher Nolan

Real, Person, Brain

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.
Oliver Stone

Life, Family, Experience

The real world is horrible.
Lev Grossman

The thing that bums me out about 'The Real World' is I don't want to believe that teenagers are that stupid.
Kathy Griffin

Stupid, Real, Teenagers

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