Everything’s a lot tougher when it’s for real. That’s when you choke. When it’s for real.
Adults are the real monsters.
Eddie discovered one of his childhood’s great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.
I hate it when people call themselves ‘entrepreneurs’ when what they’re really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell of go public, so they can cash in and move on. They’re unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business.
The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind’s problems. I believe that very much.
I’m one of the few people who understands how producing technology requires intuition and creativity, and how producing something artistic takes real discipline.
No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Wait with patience and love and strength. If helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings.
While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many.
All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue.
One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom.
All real progress must be slow.
Never can a reforming sect survive if it is only reforming; the formative elements alone – the real impulse, that is, the principles – live on and on.
We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is perfectly right. There is no danger there. This is the real worship of God. But the image-God is a mere Pratika.
In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture – renunciation. This is religion – renunciation.
Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong.
The attempt is to kill the false “I”, so that the real “I”, the Lord, will reign. “I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me,” say the Hebrew scriptures.
The uplift of the women, the awakening of the masses must come first, and then only can any real good come about for the country, for India.