Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel J. Boorstin

Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

Daniel Kahneman

Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

Daniel Kahneman

Doubts are suppressed by groups... But remember that the internal incentives that shape how the group perceives risks and rewards may be very different from the reality of the risks and rewards in the external marketplace. Those incentives can distort risk perception.

Daniel Kahneman

If people can construct a simple and coherent story, they will feel confident regardless of how well grounded it is in reality.

Daniel Kahneman

That's one of the real dangers of leader selection in many organizations: leaders are selected for overconfidence.

D. J. MacHale

Looks like it's time to liven up this dead little town!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)

Czeslaw Milosz

I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.

Czeslaw Milosz

What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality.

D. B. Sweeney

I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.

D. H. Lawrence

One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.

D. H. Lawrence

An illusion which is a real experience is worth having.

D. H. Lawrence

Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

D. H. Lawrence

Sometimes snakes can’t slough. They can’t burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the new pattern. It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don’t care what happens to you, if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out.

D. H. Lawrence

The map appears to us more real than the land.

D. H. Lawrence

Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism.

D. H. Lawrence

God doesn't know things. He is things.

D. H. Lawrence

Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

D. H. Lawrence

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

D. H. Lawrence

But, especially in love, only counterfeit emotions exist nowadays. We have all been taught to mistrust everybody emotionally, from parents downwards, or upwards. Don’t trust anybody with your real emotions: if you’ve got any: that is the slogan of today. Trust them with your money, even, but never with your feelings. They are bound to trample on them.

D. H. Lawrence

The only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words.

D. H. Lawrence

America exhausts the springs of one's soul - I suppose that's what it exists for. It lives to see all real spontaneity expire. But anyhow it doesn't grind on an old nerve as Europe seems to.

D. H. Lawrence

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

D. H. Lawrence

Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

We all create our own reality by the choices we make.

Cristina Saralegui

The talk show, as a genre, has been in decline for a while. It started with Jerry Springer, when the talk shows suffered a metamorphosis, going from the real and social issues to the hair-raising.

Conrad Burns

Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.

Conor McPherson

The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.

Conrad Veidt

In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.

Conrad Black

Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.

Conor Oberst

There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy.

Conor Oberst

I don't feel real confident expressing myself except when I'm writing. I feel kind of scatterbrained. I can see everything from both sides and that makes it hard to reach conclusions. Writing enables me to clarify things.

Conor Oberst

If I could act like This was my real life, And not some cage where I've been placed, Well then, I could tell you The truth like I used to And not be afraid of sounding fake.

Conor Oberst

I'm always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time believing anything. When people have real faith in something, it's fascinating to me. And the fact that so many people, in surveys, so many people say they do. It kind of blows my mind.