Quotes About Real-world

The good thing I will say about the Chicago School is that it was always about the world, not about the abstract.

If you look at what we did with 'Winter Soldier' with the Cap character in terms of bringing him into the modern world, trying to ground the movie tonally into something that was a step toward real-world, at least to the degree you can do that in a superhero movie, that's still the tonal universe that we're playing in 'Civil War.'

I don't like to move abstract theoretical policies that, on a white paper, sound good. If I wanted to do that, I'd be a professor.

The whole intention of empirical economics is to force theory down to Earth.

College is supposed to prepare you for the real world, but if that's the case, they should have a class on standing in line. The post office line. DMV line. Grocery store line. Unless Shakespeare's clever wordplay can help me cut in front of that mom and screaming baby at the market, he's of no use to me.

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

One way to figure out a great theory is to look at what's working in the real world and figure out what the various successes have in common. With

Fantasy is usually considered an escape, but it's also a way to deal with weighty real-world issues from a safe distance and in a context where you usually have some kind of power that you don't have in real life.

I believe having judges with real world, frontline experience as a prosecutor is a good thing.

If love is a choice, then they have the capacity to love after the "in-love" obsession has died and they have returned to the real world. That kind of love begins with an attitude—a way of thinking. Love is the attitude that says, "I am married to you, and I choose to look out for your interests.

We have perfected the art of finding problems without fixing real-world issues. We focus too much on complexity, not harm.

How good are markets in predicting real-world developments? Reading the record, it is striking how many calamities that I anticipated did not in fact materialise. Financial markets constantly anticipate events, both on the positive and on the negative side, which fail to materialise exactly because they have been anticipated. It is an old joke that the stock market has predicted seven of the last two recessions. Markets are often wrong.

If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'

Realize you won't master data structures until you are working on a real-world problem and discover that a hash is the solution to your performance woes.

I find that time constraints actually make me more productive, and "real world" experiences provide a lot of inspiration to write.

socialism preceded Marxism, and socialism has survived Marxism, in part because Marxism was subjected to a real-world test for nearly a century and failed on an epic scale. Soviet revolutionaries did not engage in Fabian incrementalism; they got their country and their empire and their worldwide movement, and they worked their will without opposition.

There was a refreshing purity to their views, which seemed often unaffected by real-world complexities. The

I think that the audience is smart enough to know that just because a drama is relating to real-world parallels, it doesn't mean that its story is exactly that story.

Still, for both policy and political reasons, I felt that progressives couldn't afford to ignore economics. Those of us who believed in the government's ability to solve big problems had an obligation to pay attention to the real-world impact of our decisions and not just trust in the goodness of our intentions.

Another good reason to create a class is to model an abstract object—an object that isn't a concrete, real-world object but that provides an abstraction of other concrete objects. A good example is the classic Shape object. Circle and Square really exist, but Shape is an abstraction of other specific shapes.

Theories, books and ideas created within ivory towers had real-world consequences.

A treasure hunt, like geocaching. Digital hide-and-seek in the real world. And she was good with computers, studied computer science, and loved codes and ciphers. Adventure was her second nature.

Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.

The amateur has not mastered the technique of his art. Nor does he expose himself to judgment in the real world. If we show our poem to our friend and our friend says, "It's wonderful, I love it," that's not real-world feedback, that's our friend being nice to us. Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.