Best Really True Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It is like football with coaches, like, 'We're only going to think about the next game.' It is really true, all you think is, 'Okay, we have to make a good next episode.'”

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Author:Matt Stone

“Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“The sad fact is that we're not educated to be aware and therefore able to question the reality created by our thinking. We don't realize that we must take responsibility for our thoughts to find out if they are really true, and then set aside or at least acknowledge those that are simply opinion and bias. We don't recognize that most thoughts are ultimately judgments, and that the truth of any judgment is how that judgment makes us feel.”

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Book:Inside-Out Healing

Source: Inside-Out Healing

“The theory of Zen is non-competition. But that is not really true at all. People who practice Zen are very competitive. They are competing against emptiness.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is this cliche of, "Oh, your professional life is fine, but your romantic life isn't." But, that's also really true of me and all my friends. You don't want to not do something that's relatable simply because you're worried that it might be cliche.”

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Author:Mindy Kaling

“If it's really true, that the museum at Liberty University has dinosaur fossils which are labelled as being 3000 years old, then that is an educational disgrace. It is debauching the whole idea of a university, and I would strongly encourage any members of Liberty University who may be here to leave and go to a proper university.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“When is a game more than a game? So often, we pay lip service to the uplifting power of sports, the teamwork, the camaraderie, the lessons in taming one's own ego for the sake of the group. But you have to wonder, how often is that still really true?”

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Author:Michel Martin

“Whatever way you put it, I am here only because my world is here. When I took my first breath, my world was born with me. When I die, my world dies with me. In other words, I wasn't born into a world that was already here before me, nor do I live simply as one individual among millions of other individuals, nor do I leave everything behind to live on after me. People live thinking of themselves as members of a group or society. However, this isn't really true. Actually, I bring my own world into existence, live it out, and take it with me when I die.”

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Book:Opening the Hand of Thought: Approach to Zen

Source: Opening the Hand of Thought: Approach to Zen

“I had no plan for that year but it wound up being one of the most important years of my football coaching career. It hit me along the way that I needed to really get at the heart of what's really true to myself. And then I was able to mold it and shape it in the years at SC to become the approach and the concept and the culture that we try to create here at Seattle.”

“When we let go of all our notions about things, everything becomes really true.”

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Book:Opening the Hand of Thought: Approach to Zen

Source: Opening the Hand of Thought: Approach to Zen

“I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them, get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite it's really true. It takes confidence and courage to know that and then commit to it.”

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Author:Claire Danes

“The more you give, the more you get - it’s a cliché, but it’s really true.”

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Author:Christie Brinkley

“It is so important to be really true to yourself in design, and I am.”

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Author:Thom Browne

“Well, your whole life is like a checkerboard and there's a sense that you get, especially looking back on it, that you begin to realize and gain awareness that there's something else moving all of these pieces around in your life, and that was really true for me right from the very beginning.”

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Author:Wayne Dyer

“The New Health Rules is the new manifesto for how to eat well, feel good, and live long. If you ever wondered what's really true about the things that work and the things that don't, look no further.”

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Author:Mark Hyman, M.D.

“Ill tell you, Mr. Thomas, why some Christians are afraid of me. They're not sure that what they believe is really true. If they were sure, I wouldn't be a threat to them at all.”

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Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“The first thing I can remember I ever wanted was to go to the United States. And for reasons that are as conventional as you can imagine: I wanted to know if it was really true that it was the land of opportunity, of democracy, and individual liberty.”

Source: Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

“If you are really true to yourself and really follow your intuition in the most rigorous way, there is a moment that becomes universal, that reaches everybody. That’s the real magic of Björk-she teaches us the courage to be ourselves.”

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Author:Marina Abramovic

“I always think of it you know building a business, building a brand, a friend of mine gave me a metaphor for it which I think is really true it's like building coral, you don't see it happening it's just little little little and when you step back you think wow.”

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Author:Karen Walker

“Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.”

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Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“I'm not the 'rappity-rapper' type dude. All my music is really true. I can't just rap about nothing, just metaphors and putting words together. I can't just smash out material like other guys. I just want my albums to be crazy every time I drop one.”

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Author:Schoolboy Q

“My advice is: to try and stay really true to the things that make YOU laugh, as opposed to trying to create a character that you think is funny. Some comedians get into bad habits when they are trying to create something that is not them, and they are trying to write a voice that isn't their true voice.”

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Author:Dane Cook

“A board member of mine used to say sales fix everything in a startup, and that is really true.”

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Author:Sam Altman

“I'm just competitive. Everybody always says, 'You've gotta be crazy to do what you do.' It's not really true. Everything we do... is always about trying to out-do your friends. Trying to one-up, be a little faster, a little better, jump a little further.”

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Author:Travis Pastrana

“What the Bible says is really true-it's better to give than to receive.”

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Author:Ted Turner

“If you ask anybody about their life, usually the first thing they talk about is how their wife is doing, how their kids are, they don't usually say "My job, my job, my job". It's really true. It's usually about your family.”

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Author:Julianne Moore

“People intrinsically know there are secrets being held from us. Look at WikiLeaks: There are secrets that are really true to the world.”

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Author:Bob Weinstein

“Contrarian thinking at its best simply asks, Is this really true? It speaks up when the politically correct answer or the conventional wisdom doesn't match reality - when things simply don't work the way everyone says they should.”

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Author:Larry Osborne

“One of my thrills of the business is to find young people, there's a window. I like young people who are in that brief window between on their-way-up and rehab. In that window I can make stars. It's not really true but it's not so far off.”

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Author:Garry Marshall

“I like a little chaos. I think that's really true for my inner Buddha. I think I like a little nutsy. Maybe I can't take total peace.”

Thinking Littles I Can Chaos Really True

Author:Meredith Vieira

“Out-of-whack emotions are always a good beginning point for identifying beliefs that aren't really true, an easy red flag for our inquiry. Exaggerated emotions of anxiety or discouragement invite us to trace them back to the thoughts that are creating them.”

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Author:Virginia H. Pearce

“If Christianity is really true it will be offending and correcting you somewhere.”

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Author:Timothy Keller

“Your thinking, more than anything else, shapes the way you live. It's really true that if you change your thinking, you can change your life.”

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Author:John C. Maxwell

“I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.”

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Author:William Shatner

“Everybody understands that you're supposed to say 'our employees are our most valuable asset' to the point where, even if it's really true, they're not going to really trust you until you've earned that - same with customers.”

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Author:Gabe Newell

“Would you consider a man or a woman to be complicated? Is it that difficult to understand both the sexes? We say that we know what the other sex is all about, but is that really true? Perhaps the following witty, funny quotes and sayings can help simplify things down about men.”

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Author:Indira Gandhi

“I'm very grateful to have my kids in my life; they're my greatest teachers. But to pretend it's always easy is just not really true.”

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Author:Patricia Arquette

“And the joy of my job - and it's really true - is that it's constantly evolving and changing.”

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Author:Ethan Hawke

“My job - and it's really true - is that it's constantly evolving and changing. When I was doing the Chet Baker movie I was obsessed with playing the trumpet, and to my absolute shock I haven't picked the trumpet up since we wrapped. It was so much work. I thought I was going to keep playing the rest of my life, 'cause it was fun, it's just a lot of work. And it's a really unique job that exposes you to a lot.”

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Author:Ethan Hawke

“That old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true. Even if all of the lyrics are understood, they seem to connect with it really well and in some ways, more so.”

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Author:William Fitzsimmons

“There is a belief that children drop out of school because they're needed by their families to work, or the little girls are needed to take care of younger siblings. It turns out that's not really true.”

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Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“Raising children changes everything. It's a complete cliché to say that, but it's really true.”

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Author:Christopher Gorham

“If it was really true that predation is God's will, it would have to follow for Christians that the life of Jesus -- what after all is the self-disclosure of God -- manifested and vindicated this predator/prey relationship. Such a gospel would be substantially different from the one we currently have.... Instead of raising Lazarus from the dead, the Predator Jesus could only comment that death is God's blessing. Instead of preaching the good news of the coming kingdom of God, the proclamation would run: "Eat and be eaten.”

“When I think back on it, I have a sense of relaxation, as if in the seventies no one had to try to be anyone other than who they were. I'm sure that's not really true, but that's how I remember it, and I suppose it might be relatively true.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Might Remember Seventies Relaxation Really True

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“Mindfulness is the primary tool in that we get a little space between ourselves and the thoughts and then we actually can be more responsive, as in: Do I want to listen to that? Do I want to ignore it? Do I want to say "no thank you". Do I want to inquire if that's really true or helpful? So we start with mindfulness and we're not engaging, because as soon as we do that, we've given the critic authority. Instead, we want to notice the critic but not give it any attention, not really give it much value.”

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Author:Mark Coleman

“I have a woman who teaches me what love is every day. Maybe that sentiment is possible to fake, but for me it's really true.”

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Author:Tom Hanks

“There's an old maxim which is really true for every parent and that is, 'You haven't failed until you quit trying.' I think that means both in terms of taking appropriate opportunities to teach one's children the right way, but at all times making sure they know that over all things you'll love them.”

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Author:Lance B. Wickman

“My mother used to say, "Tell your brain you want that piece of information or you want to solve this problem, and then just walk away from it. Just forget about it. Just do something else, completely distract yourself, and you'll see, it's like a computer. Eventually, it will deliver it up." And I find that's really true.”

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Author:Emma Walton Hamilton

“I'm convinced that the Christian claim is really true, that this is just a warm up to the big event. That this is just the appetizer to the feast, and if we can plug into that and understand that this part of our story is just the introduction, it is not even the first line of the first paragraph, it's just the first letter or first word. We are just getting started.”

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Author:Max Lucado

“I'm an old man, and I want to lay out what I think I understand. With poems like "Traitor," I'm examining my feelings, my convictions, my understanding of the world, and testing whether they're really true. So that when you hang your holster up, you can make a judgment on whether you have any integrity at all. That's what I care about. That's why I wrote it. If I can't write that poem, then I've got it wrong somehow.”

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Author:Dan Burt

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