The real world is messy. It's only thinking that forces imagined order on it.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
E. O. WILSON Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinkin...
NEILS BOHR Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinkin...
NIELS BOHR Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only ...
PATRICK NESS As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its s...
GUSTAV STRESEMANN How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalis...
YUVAL NOAH HARARI But your book is wrong, Mrs. Strunk, says George, when it tells you that Jim is the substitute I fou...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD We think this is truly a body blow, not only to the (Genovese family) membership, but the leadership...
MARK MERSHON The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking t...
BARRY MANN Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.
SIMON BEAUFOY The budget surplus is real, not imagined, and it means that the tax is no longer needed,
BILL ARCHER The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinki...
BARRY MANN You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
OSCAR WILDE We understand the reasons why the Egyptian government would like to modernize its defense forces in ...
MOSHE ARENS Fashion is not separate from art. It is inextricably woven into how we open ourselves to the world a...
RICHARD PHILLIPS It was one of the greatest errors in evaluating dictatorship to say that the dictator forces himself...
WILHELM REICH It just shows the kind of innovative free-market thinking Jim brings in.
JOE WIEGAND Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is ...
HANNAH ARENDT The only thing that gave me comfort in the attic was thinking about my family. Now I'm home, but it'...
CLARA KENSIE Teaching, real teaching, is -- or ought to be -- a messy business.
HARRY CREWS So with that thought, I begin again—thinking to myself that sometimes . . . the only real thing...
SUZANNE YOUNG The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY I read little nonfiction, but I have no boundaries about the fiction I relish. The only unfailing cr...
SCOTT TUROW Food matters because it's one of the things that forces us to live in this world -- this tactile, ph...
SHAUNA NIEQUIST I propose that the forces of corporate totalitarianism are deliberately destroying this entire world...
DIANE HARVEY World lends its ears only if one‘s words have real touch and not reel guts.
ANUJ SOMANY I'm interested in the real world.
EDWARD BOND A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslim...
PATRICK CHAPPATTE Claridge's is elegant but determinedly unglamorous. The only fantasy it has to offer is the illusion...
HOLLY BRUBACH Despite the victory of democratic forces in Yugoslavia and its opening up to the world, the internat...
GEORGE ROBERTSON All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble...
THOMAS J. WATSON All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is ...
THOMAS J. WATSON All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is ...
THOMAS J. WATSON SR. The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always...
WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK Whence the possibility of an ideological analysis of Disneyland (L. Marin did it very well in Utopiq...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The last months were used for a rest in order to rehabilitate forces. The Palestinian people preserv...
ABU HANI 'V-Wars' is a head-on collision of real-world science, terrorism, special forces action, eth...
JONATHAN MABERRY Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is ...
PAUL CHAMBERS Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on...
PAUL CHAMBERS The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with t...
HENRY MILLER All established order forms a line of resistance against the threat of rupture and places its meager...
JULIO CORTáZAR Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD We were feeling something they never had—a physical link into the world of the fictional—through...
AUSTIN GROSSMAN It's crazy, I'm thinking, just knowing that the world is round,And here I'm dancing on the groundAm ...
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN I spend shockingly little time thinking about real-world stuff.
TREY PARKER The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, ou...
GLORIA STEINEM You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in the...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le...
GARY F EVANS... Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult ...
RUTH HANDLER The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison wit...
HENRY MILLER He feels the pressure real and pressure imagined,
JOHN MADDEN This sharp increase in the number of the poor worsens our concern and anxieties on the real nature o...
MATHIEU KEREKOU Small thinking is like a small vehicle that can drive you only into a small world.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.
JAMES SUROWIECKI The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.
DAPHNE KOLLER Hence the soul is nothing intrinsically real, nor is the body either; each of them exists in time on...
F.W.J. SCHELLING An Iraq at peace with its neighbors, an ally in the war on terror, with a representative government ...
THOMAS TURNER The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in...
HENRY MILLER The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It
is for us to put ourselves in ...
HENRY MILLER The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in ...
HENRY MILLER Personally, I think it does help, that it makes a beneficial difference, but the scientific literatu...
JEANNE PETREK When the world turns its back on you, you feel pretty stupid realizing it took almost 7 billion peop...
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER It's my world, I'm just allowing you to live in it, but that can be changed! All I have to do is cha...
CELESTINE L. GRAY Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
FKA TWIGS Being offended is part of being in the real world.
COURTNEY LOVE The telling of stories creates the real world.
ALBERTO MANGUEL But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.
ROMANO PRODI From the earliest days of man there has endured the conviction that there is an order of existence w...
THOMAS LIGOTTI It is a tragedy that many of God’s people have conformed themselves to the world and its thinking,...
BILLY GRAHAM Memory is imagined; it is not real. Don't be ashamed of its need to create; it is the loveliest part...
NICK CAVE Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.
CHARLES SCRIBNER JR. Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.
CHARLES SCRIBNER, JR. Do whatever you like because life is short
SUJANā Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems
EPICTETUS I was in the situation of someone who has assumed, all his life, that madness was on eway, and sudde...
FELISBERTO HERNáNDEZ There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.
CHRIS HEIMERDINGER Order is a lovely thing; on disarray it lays its wing, teaching simplicity to sing.
ANNA BRANCH Open your arms to life! Let it strut into your heart in all its messy glory!
DEBORAH WILES The phrase "New World Order" is Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Fo...
WILLIAM SAFIRE The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is onl...
A. A. MILNE I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that br...
JOHN COLTRANE It would be a real mistake for us to think that India will ever influence the world through its outs...
DEEPAK CHOPRA So it shows that for all the brag you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instink is ...
MARK TWAIN Although I cannot see your face
As you flip these poems awhile,
Somewhere from some far-of...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN The interesting thing is that New Order finished on an okay note. It was only after we split that th...
PETER HOOK The part of our social order which can or ought to be made a conscious product of human reason is on...
F.A. HAYEK I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline...
WALTER ISAACSON As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the me...
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on t...
SYDNEY SMITH She says affection is all very well being imagined, like a romantic fancy, but marriage should be ba...
AYA LING What is now proved was only once imagined.
WILLIAM BLAKE What is now proved was once only imagined.
WILLIAM BLAKE A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the righ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS Teach [our girls] that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that th...
ANNA COOPER Teach [our girls] that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that th...
ANNA JULIA COOPER For economist the real world is often a special case.
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JIM GENOVESE I think, therefore it is.
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JIM GENOVESE Escape the prison of your thoughts into the vastness of reality.
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JIM GENOVESE A gift wrapped in strings, not ribbons is not a gift.
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JIM GENOVESE People try to find themselves by looking outward for solutions when the answers lie within.
JIM GENOVESE Any virtue taken to the extreme becomes a vice; unfortunately it doesn't work the other way.
JIM GENOVESE Judge a person not on what they say they are going to do but on what they accomplish.
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JIM GENOVESE The only thing you'll ever need to change your life is you.
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JIM GENOVESE The path most walked on is the easiest one to use, but probably not the best.
JIM GENOVESE Expertise is made up of more practice and more refinement.
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JIM GENOVESE Trying to control people is like trying to heard cats. It's not a good idea.
JIM GENOVESE Do your part, and God will do the rest.
JIM GENOVESE The level of expertise you reach in any endeavour is limited by your level of interest in it.
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JIM GENOVESE The time to start is now.
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JIM GENOVESE Trying to hard impedes progress.
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JIM GENOVESE If all become one, each becomes none, but if one is all, then each becomes everything.
JIM GENOVESE Duality is like the head and tail of a coin. In reality both form only one coin.
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