What I always say is that young people need older people to develop their game, grow as people, and understand what Real means.
When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.
I do not want the things I do to be easy and predictable. I want them to be real.
Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.
I attended seminars where many social issues were discussed abstractly, outside the pressures of an immediate situation, and there I developed certain attitudes which permitted me to face the real thing when it came along.
I like to have the impression that whatever is happening is true.
Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.
There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life to be found around them in a real forest.
There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show; they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?
All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff. Everything else is fake.
There's the caveman in us. The caveman in you says, "I want direct contact. I don't want a picture." The caveman in our body says once in a while, we have to go outside. We have to meet real people, talk to real people, and do real things.
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
Maybe I was just lucky, but I had the best pregnancy, and I loved giving birth. It was just the most amazing thing, so surreal but so real.
While there's no substitute for real experience, I believe it helps to hear and share stories of resourcefulness in action - almost like case studies in school.
There are things you can get in that physical experience you cannot get virtually.
Even the people who do great jokes, [it's] always coming out of a very real place.
You can have the right kind of experience and the wrong kind of experience. Mine is rooted in the real lives of real people, and it will bring real results if we have the courage to change.
I've always been drawn to the real stuff and the stuff that feels authentic. And so when I'm writing songs, that's what I try to do.
A picture does a great job, but it's not nearly like being there.
I get it I live it to me there's nothin realer
You can't write about things without doing them. You just have to live that same way.
To stay close and intimate with experience is to stay close to the mind; the nitty gritty mind of the way things really are.
Following takes why. Transactions take what. It has to be real. It has to be the same for writing a book.
What would I advise an aspiring young entrepreneur? Certainly I'd say read the works of great entrepreneurs and investors like Ben Horowitz, Peter Thiel, and many others. But what's more important is to get real experience at a great startup.
There is no better teacher than life itself.
