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Quotes About Real

And it occurred to me there is no manual that deals with the real business of motorcycle maintenance, the most important aspect of all. Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
It's the style that gets you; technological ugliness syruped over with romantic phoniness in an effort to produce beauty and profit by people who, though stylish, don't know where to start because no one has ever told them there's such a thing as Quality in this world and it's real, not style. Quality isn't something you lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects, the cone from which the tree must start.
~ Robert Pirsig
In a semi-secularized and rampantly pluralized world in which the hold of objective religious truth is increasingly problematic, but in which religious questions and yearnings are certainly real, mythology is a viable and not ignoble alternative to a stark choice between dogmatic religion and sheer secularism.
~ Robert S. Ellwood
confidence, fairness, corruption, money illusion, and stories. These are real motivations for real people. They are ubiquitous. The presumption of mainstream macroeconomics that they have no important role strikes us as absurd.
~ Robert Shiller
The poor and middle class work for money," he would say. "The rich make money. The more real you think money is, the harder you will work for it. If you can grasp the idea that money is not real, you will grow richer faster.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
those numbers have more meaning because they are real numbers that relate to your life.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
I decided to design a course that mirrored real life.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
Yes; but if dryads are foolish they must take the consequences, just as if they were real people, said Paul gravely. Do you know what I think about the new moon, teacher? I think it is a little golden boat full of dreams.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Then stop trying to throw logic at nightmares. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster. ~Bibiana to Anita
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.' - Chang Bibi to Anita
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
He looked less handsome without the smile and glow in his eyes, but he also seemed more real. Being real will get me into trouble faster than any amount of charm.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Then stop trying to throw logic at nightmares. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
If what I felt had been an actual wound, I'd have been bleeding to death.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
There may be motive, pathology, but it's not really a why, because the only real answer is always the same. Why did the bad guy do the really bad thing to this victim? Because he, they, it, could. That's the real and only true answer; all the rest is just lawyer and profiler talk.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
boom! powering underwater, mermaid made real I felt my gills growing I could breathe without air.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I know amazing people in fashion who are anything but fake. They are very real and very sensitive. They are happy and sad. They are loyal friends.
~ Alber Elbaz
No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The stimulus of competition, when applied at an early age to real thought processes, is injurious both to nerve-power and to scientific insight.
~ Mary Everest Boole
There isn't any real science to say we are altering the climate path of the earth.
~ Roy Blunt
I think science is real. And I think it's important that we grip this and deal with it, both at home and abroad.
~ Hillary Clinton
The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt.
~ Wendy Kaminer
In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in aiding the eye to take in the meaning of the print as do the black letters.
~ John Burroughs
[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature.
~ Edward O. Wilson