A Quotes
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“A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.”
“A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.”
Source: Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts
“A real business doesn’t start with passion—it starts with solving a real problem for real people.”
Source: Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank
“A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky's the limit.”
“A real businessman value his partners like friends and his partnership like friendship.”
“A real capitalist knows that $10 given today does a lot more good than $100 given 10 years from now.”
“A real challenge that I've had with my company, Bayou With Love, is getting people to understand that using post-consumer materials does not mean that you are getting a "less than" product than one made with virgin materials. I use a lot of post-consumer plastic in Bayou's clothing. I use it in our bags, which are made from recycled plastics from the ocean.”
“A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge.”
“A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.”
“A real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named.”
Source: Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…
“A real ‘clash of civilisations’ is like the proverbial dialogue of the deaf.”
Source: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“A real collector does not sell.”
“A real common problem with a lot of animals is that guys are bad, hate to say it, but they will tune into some big feature like the glasses, maybe the beard, baseball hats, you know some unique feature like that. And they'll generalize like, "Okay! All people with baseball hats or black rimmed glasses are bad."”
“A real confidence is born from a fragile heart and a stubborn head”
“A real confidence is born from a fragile heart with a stubborn head”
“A real connection, one that can’t be denied and defies all reasons—untamed, raw, pure feelings that give the comfort of a Jaguar in a WagonR; the fragrance of a five-star hotel’s fresh linens in a small, cosy mattress; and the thrill of a new gadget in a person who you can call home.”
Source: Together we were
“A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.”
“A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action!”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.”
“A real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things that can be named.”
Source: Giovanni’s Room
“A real definition of life lies in our daily thoughts and the steps we take to or away from what is distinctive and noble.”
“A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“A real devil among devils.”
Source: The Queen of the Damned
“A real diamond is never perfect.”
Source: All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
“A real dictator usually isn't interested in money or women, just pure power.”
“A real dictator usually isn't interested in money or women, just pure power. But Putin - I don't know about women, but it looks like he definitely likes money quite a bit. He's painted himself into a corner; he has committed so many sins and crimes, he has no choice but to hold on to power. No matter how he leaves, his policies will definitely be condemned as bad and wrong, and everything will be blamed on him, just as he now blames Yeltsin. It could be done by someone who, at this moment, is professing boundless love for Putin.”
“A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.”
“A real dish has grown from all the chefs who have combined their talents over the centuries to develop a meal with unique physical characteristics, for there’s not a chef on earth who can claim sole title to a particular dish. It will have typical Iberian or French features, but with traces of Indian, Celtic, Roman, Jewish and even Moorish culture in its savour, although food can’t possibly pass from one country to another without change”
Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.”
Source: Under dispute
“A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.”
“A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.”
“A real education will not teach you to compete; it will teach you to cooperate. It will not teach you to fight and come first. It will teach you to be creative, to be loving, to be blissful, without any comparison with the other..
A real education will not teach you to be the first. It will tell you to enjoy whatsoever you are doing, not for the result but for the act itself.
Just like a painter or a dancer or a musician….
You can paint in two ways. You can paint to compete with other painters; you want to be the greatest painter in the world, you want to be a Picasso or a Van Gogh. Then your painting will be second-rate, because your mind is not interested in painting itself; it is interested in being the first, the greatest painter in the world. You are not going deep into the art of painting. You are not enjoying it, you are only using it as a stepping- stone. You are on an ego trip.
And the problem is: to really be a painter, you have to drop the ego completely. To really be a painter, the ego has to be put aside. Only then can God flow through you.
Only then can he use your hands and your fingers and your brush. Only then something of superb beauty can be born.
It is never BY you but only THROUGH you. Existence flows; you become only a passage. You allow it to happen, that's all; you don't hinder, that's all.
But if you are too interested in the result, the ultimate result - that you have to become famous, that you have to win the Nobel Prize, that you have to be the first painter in the world, that you have to defeat all other painters hitherto - then your interest is not in painting; painting is secondary. And of course, with a secondary interest in painting you can't paint something original; it will be ordinary.
Ego cannot bring anything extraordinary into the world; the extraordinary comes only through egolessness. And so is the case with the musician and the poet and the dancer.
And so is the case with everybody.
In the Gita, Krishna says: Don't think of the result at all. It is a message of tremendous beauty and significance and truth. Don't think of the result at all. Just do what you are doing with your totality. Get lost into it. Lose the doer in the doing. Don't be - let your creative energies flow unhindered.
That's why he said to Arjuna, "Don't escape from the war... because I can see this is just an ego trip, this escape. The way you are talking simply shows that you are calculating: that you are thinking that by escaping from the war you will become a great mahatma.
Rather than surrendering to God, to the whole, you are taking yourself too seriously: as if, if you are not there, there will be no war."
Krishna says to Arjuna, "Listen to me. Just be in a state of let-go. Say to God, 'Use me in whatsoever way you want to use me. Use me! I am available, unconditionally available.'
Then whatsoever happens through you will have a great authenticity about it. It will have intensity, it will have depth. It will have the impact of the eternal on it. It will be signed by God, not by you. And you will rejoice because God has chosen you to be a vehicle.”
“A real enlightened teacher is intense and they could care less what you think about anything at any time since you are lost in illusions.”
“A real existentialist pays attention to existence, not to existentialism. A real empiricist pays attention to the rightful use of empirical evidence, not to mere empiricism. A real humanist pays attention to a life of human substance, not to shallow theoretical concepts like humanism.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“A real explosion is not only much more fun to shoot, it also helps the actors and creates an energy on set and ultimately in the scene.”
“A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.”
“A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.”
“A real feminist doesn't apologize for her beauty. You can be a sexy, beautiful woman and be the smartest person in the room.”
“A real fighter never cries, never lets the weight of any blow bring him down. Except that final blow, the inevitable one, but even then they always go out like men.”
Source: The Edge of Never, Wait For You, Rule: Scorching Summer Reads 3 Books in 1
“A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as a furnace. Too often jealousy is the quality upon which it feeds.”
Source: Sister Carrie
“A real fool is he who appreciates the madness in others”
“A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following”
“A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.”
“A real friend ... exults in his friends happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.”
“A real friend does not pick up the bill for an addict’s drugs: he packs the friend off to rehab instead. Today, only those who speak up against Israel’s policies – who denounce the occupation, the blockade, and the war – are the nation’s true friends.”
“A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves.”
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
Source: Winchell exclusive:
“A real friend is someone who does n0t give you expectation about delivering on some kind of peer group pressure.”
“A real friend is someone who likes you for who you want to be and not for who they want you to be.”
“A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.”