“Computers don't seem real to me because there's a sheet of glass between you and whatever is happening.” RealSeemsComputerHappeningsGlassesSheets Author:Stanley Donwood
“I always felt strongly connected to the region where I was born. But after leaving school, the only clear thought I had about my life was to leave this provincial area and go to places where real life was happening.” RealSchoolFeltBornClearHappeningsAreasLeavingConnectedReal LifeRegionsLeaving School Author:Volker Bertelmann
“I do think that there is a real crisis of masculinity that's happening in America. I think the problem is - the way it's being framed is that there's a problem with masculinity because women are too powerful, or women are taking up too much space.” ThinkingWayRealProblemAmericaSpacePowerfulToo MuchHappeningsCrisisMasculinityFramed Author:Jessica Valenti
“Radical transparency is critical to having an idea meritocracy because it shows what's actually happening without spin and prevents people from maneuvering politically behind each others' backs. It brings problems and weaknesses to the surface and allows people to see how they are dealt with, so it's great for training people on how to deal with real problems.” PeopleIdeasRealShowsProblemDealsBehindsTrainingHappeningsWeaknessCriticalSurfaceRadicalTransparencyReal ProblemsMeritocracy Author:Ray Dalio
“I still feel lucky whenever I hear a director say, "Action!" Because then I think, "Whoa, I'm really in the movies. This is a real thing happening." I've never not been enthralled by that. I still love it. I still love hearing it, and I feel really lucky all the time.” ThinkingFeelsStillsRealActionLuckyDirectorsHappeningsHearingThings HappenReal Things Author:Fred Armisen
“The rest of the Third World people are seeing, that the country can make a real change. No changing or trading one master for another. The only real change would be to socialize the means of production and this is what's happening in Jamaica.” PeopleWorldMeanRealCountryWould BeSeeingMastersHappeningsThirdsProductionsTradingThird WorldJamaicaReal Change Author:Huey Newton
“You've got to remember that improvisers are writers and actors and directors all simultaneously. That's what's happening in real time because you're writing on your feet, and you are acting out the words and you are directing what the staging is. You're deciding what staging is.” WritingRealRememberActorsActingFeetDirectorsHappeningsActing OutStaging Author:Mike Birbiglia
“Whatever happens, we can deal with it if we admit that it's happening and so on. So to be comfortable with what is - that is a real superpower.” IfsRealHappensDealsComfortableHappeningsSuperpowerWhatever Happens Author:George Saunders
“There is a big difference between tweeting to your friend about something that is happening and having a real personal relationship with people.” PeopleRealBigsDifferencesHappeningsPersonal Relationships Author:Noam Chomsky
“There is no real scientific debate over what is happening; of course there is debate over exactly how it is going to play out in the decades ahead, because this is a large experiment that we haven't done before, and no one knows precisely how one can ever precisely predict what effects this heat will have. But all the science in the last few years, or almost all of it, really serves to show that the effects are larger and more rapid than we had thought even a decade ago.” KnowsYearsRealDonePlayShowsLastsCoursesEffectsHavensHappeningsDecadesDebateExperimentsHeatRapids Author:Bill McKibben
“For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes, you know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today's life and no discussion of the real conditions - which is really sickening. They've become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.” KnowsTryingKindRealTodayFilmLyingActorsCasesFantasyConditionsCrimeProduceHeroDirectorsHappeningsCriminalsKingdomsDiscussionRelatedConspiracyCollaboratorsGeneral Public Author:Ai Weiwei
“If we look at the Gulf War, the same is also true. Indeed, my work on the logistics of perception and the Gulf War was so accurate that I was even asked to discuss it with high-ranking French military officers. They asked me: 'how is it that you wrote that book in 1984 and now it's happening for real?' My answer was: 'the problem is not mine but yours: you have not been doing your job properly!'” IfsLooksBookWarRealProblemJobsAnswersMilitaryMinesPerceptionHappeningsOfficersAccurateRankingGulf WarLogistics Author:Paul Virilio
“Chico Hamilton told me, "The first take is important in jazz because that's where the real emotion is." That's your true response to what's happening, and everything else after that, your brain is involved because you have something to reference.” FirstsImportantRealEmotionBrainInvolvedHappeningsJazzResponseHamiltonReal Emotion Author:Jose James
“I would say, and as I have said before, the series [Narcos] does not demonstrate real happenings but rather events that the screenwriters, in their own taste, believe depict the way we lived.” WayBelieveDoeSaidRealEventsTasteHappeningsSeriesScreenwriters Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“The thing I see happening is that there's a real compression between generations. There used to be about 20 years difference (in technology use). Now you talk to 15-year-old kids and their 9-year-old brother or sister is using stuff that they don't understand.” YearsRealUseKidsUsedStuffDifferencesTechnologyGenerationsBrotherHappeningsUsed To BeCompression Author:Paul Saffo
“The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.” PeopleGivingIdeasRealSchoolFilmTroubleTeachingStudentsIndustryHappeningsFilm School Book:Interviews Source: Interviews
“I can't believe this is happening to me. The weirdest thing is it was just a dream, and now it's actually real. It's hard to believe sometimes.” BelieveI CanRealSometimesHardDreamRealityHappeningsHard To BelieveJust A Dream Author:Carrie Underwood
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” ShouldMeanRealEarthCoursesInspireHappeningsLife ChangingHarry PotterPottersChildren's BooksHarry Potter MovieHarry Potter SeriesDeathly HallowsHarry Potter InspiringInspirational Harry PotterMemorable Harry PotterGreat Harry PotterDumbledore InspirationalHarry Potter BirthdayHarry Potter Film Author:J. K. Rowling
“But I must go on," said the Lady Amalthea, "for it is never finished. Even when I wake, I cannot tell what is real, and what I am dreaming as I move and speak and eat my dinner. I remember what cannot have happened, and forget something that is happening to me know. People look at me as though I should know them, and I do know them in the dream, and always the fire draws me nearer, though I am awake—” PeopleKnowsShouldLooksSaidRealDreamRememberMovingSpeakForgetFireHappenedGoes OnDrawsHappeningsDinnerFinishedAwakeLook At Me Author:Peter S. Beagle
“Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of doom without any sense of apprehension. The man who looks at the onrushing tidal wave, the descending avalanche, or the spinning funnel of the tornado, yet makes no attempt to flee, is not necessarily paralyzed with fright or resigned to an unavoidable fate. He may simply be unable to believe that the message of his eyes concerns him personally. It is all happening to somebody else.” MenMindBelieveLooksMayRealEyeFearAcceptingWatchesFateDangerNormalApproachMessagesHappeningsConcernWaveRefuseHis EyesDoomSpectacularSpinningApprehensionFrightParalyzedResignedDescendingTornadoesAvalanchesTidal Waves Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“None of it seems real. Who knows? Maybe it isn’t. Maybe it’s actually happening to someone else. Maybe it’s something I imagined. Maybe soon I’m going to wake up and find everything fixed with Lissa and Dimitri. We’ll all be together, and he’ll be there to smile and hold me and tell me everything ‘s going to be okay. Maybe all of this really has been a dream. But I don’t think so.” ThinkingKnowsHas BeensRealDreamSeemsTogetherHappeningsOkayWake UpFixedHold MeDimitri Book:Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“I think real forgiveness is a gift someone has to earn, and I don’t even have to worry about Kalona asking for my forgiveness unless he’s worthy of even considering it, and I just don’t see that happening.” ThinkingRealWorryHappeningsAskingWorthyConsidering Author:P. C. Cast