Jonah Goldberg Quotes

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.

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• Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Fiction

• One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • World
  • Country
  • Kids

• The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • History
  • Man
  • Reality

• I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Best

• There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Dream
  • Reality
  • Point

• Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Reality

• Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Reality
  • Make A Difference

• The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Love
  • Reality
  • Can

• Reality is what you can count on.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Reality
  • You
  • Count

• I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Reality
  • Actor
  • Begin

• The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Time
  • Job
  • Me

• It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Important
  • You
  • Relationship

• Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a really big fan of, altogether as a whole, not just from MTV. Like, if ABC has another reality show, I'm like, 'Oh God, another reality show.' But people love them. 'The Hills', 'Laguna Beach'... those do extremely well. It's just a personal preference.

  

  Damien Fahey
  • People
  • God
  • Reality

• That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Military

• When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bullied. The reality is, it's about them, not you... I'm all about blocking people. I'm all about saying, 'You know what, I don't need this in my life.'

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • People
  • World
  • Mind

• Poetry is the deification of reality.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Reality
  • Poetry

• 'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Life
  • Real
  • Reality

• An important part of leadership is being able to hold two things in your mind at once: Dealing with the reality, whatever it may be, and focus on hope for the future. Any leader helping an organization through challenges needs to be able to do both.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • Important
  • Mind
  • May

• Every song I've ever written has been based in reality, based in fact, things that happen to me.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Song
  • Reality

• A good comedy with a purpose behind it is exhilarating.

  

  Jason Mantzoukas
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Purpose

• Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Music
  • Moment
  • Pleasure

• When we talk about decision-making, we usually focus just on the immediate payoff of a single decision—and if you treat every decision as if it were your last, then indeed only exploitation makes sense. But over a lifetime, you’re going to make a lot of decisions. And it’s actually rational to emphasize exploration—the new rather than the best, the exciting rather than the safe, the random rather than the considered—for many of those choices, particularly earlier in life.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Sense

• We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.

  

  Jonah Goldberg
  • Reality