#real

We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#believe #course #customers #either #go

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

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#love #only #reality #recognized

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#deep #deep inside #helpless #infant #innocent

I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of. ↗

— Abdallah II

#arab #arab world #blood #certain #countries

Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#blow #constructive #constructive criticism #criticism #critique

A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#game #individual #lot #performances #players

Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most. ↗

— Dan Abrams

#court #decisions #fascinating #few #most

The one thing that disturbs me about Alec is that people don't realize that he's really funny. ↗

— Daniel Baldwin

#alec #disturbs #funny #me #one thing

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#blaze #could #earth #father #fathers

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not. ↗

— James Baldwin

#being #being real #certain #certain things #certain way