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Quotes About Real-world

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.
~ Steven Pressfield
So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.
~ Blake Lively
As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.
~ Walter O'Brien
While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.
~ Nazanin Boniadi
I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.
~ Sonia Sotomayor
Our goal at Home Theater Films is to inspire and entertain our audience. We want to make great movies that everyone can enjoy and elevate them with contemporary, relatable characters that naturally demonstrate their faith in real world situations.
~ Corbin Bernsen
Magic (in the practical sense) was much fallen off. It had low connexions.
~ Susanna Clarke
The concern over the origin of institutions dovetailed with a second preoccupation, which was the real-world problems of weak and failed states.
~ Francis Fukuyama
For speechless helpless humans, much power lay in a violent switch of extreme emotions. A crude mode of tyranny. Real-world tyrants were often compared to infants.
~ Ian Mcewan
It is on-line that the purest brands are being built: liberated from the real world burdens of stores and product manufacturingg, these brands are free to soar, less as the disseminations of goods or services than as collective hallucinations.
~ Naomi Klein
Put in different terms, profit is the price paid for efficiency. Clearly, the increase in efficiency must be greater than the profit, or else socialism would in practice have resulted in more affordable prices and greater prosperity, as its theorists hoped, but the latter never materialized in the real world.
~ Thomas Sowell
If I want my students to work toward becoming real-world writers, I need to shift the focus of my writing instruction toward real-world writing purposes.
~ Kelly Gallagher
Teach your students real-world writing purposes, add a teacher who models his or her struggles with the writing process, throw in lots of real-world mentor texts for students to emulate, and give our kids the time necessary to enable them to stretch as writers.
~ Kelly Gallagher
What we know at this point," Shakya told NPR, "is that we have evidence that replacing your real-world relationships with social media use is detrimental to your well-being.
~ Cal newport
The complex reality of the technologies that real companies leverage to get ahead emphasizes the absurdity of the now common idea that exposure to simplistic, consumer-facing products—especially in schools—somehow prepares people to succeed in a high-tech economy. Giving students iPads or allowing them to film homework assignments on YouTube prepares them for a high-tech economy about as much as playing with Hot Wheels would prepare them to thrive as auto mechanics.
~ Cal newport
is that we have evidence that replacing your real-world relationships with social media use is detrimental to your well-being.
~ Cal newport
analogue computers are stupidly named; they should be named continuous computers." For real-world questions—especially ambiguous ones—analog computing can be faster, more accurate, and more robust, not only at computing the answers, but also at asking the questions and communicating the results.
~ George B. Dyson
This is the reason I put social science theories in the left column of the Triad, as something superfragile for real-world decisions and unusable for risk analyses. The very designation "theory" is even upsetting. In social science we should call these constructs "chimeras" rather than theories.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Take this simple heuristic—does the scientific researcher whose ideas are applicable to the real world apply his ideas to his daily life? If so, take him seriously. Otherwise, ignore him.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
~ Ted Nugent
I'm really looking at questions of power, navigation, and spin. Then I am also looking for real-world stories that give me greater insight into smart and new ways of thinking.
~ Noreena Hertz
When half the nodes of a random graph the size of most real-world networks are removed, the network is destroyed. But when the same procedure is carried out against a scale-free model of a similar size, 'the giant connected component resists even after removing more than 80 per cent of the nodes, and the average distance within it [between nodes] is practically the same as at the beginning
~ Niall Ferguson
We need people with real-world experience, especially in national security.
~ Todd Wilcox
Of course, I'm guilty of oversimplification here. First, there are real-world legal concerns: doctors aren't punished for overdiagnosis, but they are punished for failing to diagnose. So it's hard for doctors to ignore incidentalomas. Second,
~ H. Gilbert Welch