Quotes About Keeping Things Real

#1. Such is the endless dilemma of dialect. Not every reader will ever agree with the way that I handle it, no matter how hard I work to keep everything readable. But again it's that balance I have to maintain between keeping it easy and keeping it real, and I know that I'll never please everyone. - Author: Susanna Kearsley

#2. I try to imagine keeping something like that a secret for my whole life. It would be like always wearing a mask over your face, which everyone believed was the real you. You would be the only person who knew it wasn't
and who knew that you could never take it off. - Author: Liz Kessler

#3. I have a whole lot of fun in trying to serve others and just keeping it funky, trying to keep it real, trying to ensure that we are able to be ourselves and get beyond these deodorized discourses and deodorized spaces that put on masks. - Author: Cornel West

#4. I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real. - Author: Vanilla Ice

#5. The real test of a bridge player isn't in keeping out of trouble, but in escaping once he's in. - Author: Alfred Sheinwold

#6. "Keep it 100" means keeping it 100 percent real. It comes from the expression ... "keeping it real," which means you are being completely honest and 100 percent real means you are really being honest, which is kind of a contradiction of sorts. You're either being honest or you're not. - Author: Larry Wilmore

#7. There aren't a lot of guys out there keeping it real. Everybody's been branded. Everybody's been bought and sold. - Author: Tracy Morgan

#8. Cutting out drama... Healthy mind and body choices... Intent followed by action... Keeping real friends and letting go of the pretends... Livin' clean for Twenty Seventeen! - Author: Steve Maraboli

#9. Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world. - Author: Shirley Hazzard

#10. If, as some savants of consciousness suggest, we are actually agreeing to create, from moment to moment, everything we perceive as real, then it stands to reason that we're also responsible for keeping it going in some harmonious manner. - Author: Phil Lesh

#11. Granny then said the real trick of life was that almost no one is entirely a shit and almost no one is entirely not a shit. The hard part of life is keeping as much on the not-a-shit side as one can. Once - Author: Fredrik Backman

#12. What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real. - Author: Salma Hayek

#13. I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity. - Author: Benjamin Franklin

#14. The best putting advice I ever received was make sure you concentrate real hard on keeping that darn ball real low - Author: Chi Chi Rodriguez

#15. I didn't end up going bankrupt ... I made some great investments and I held on to my money, which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it's not about finances. No matter what, it's about keeping it real. - Author: Vanilla Ice

#16. Though one may acquire much in wealth, fame, or honor, the real joy of life does not lie there but, rather, in keeping the romance of living going. Nothing gives such complete and profound happiness as the perpetually fresh wonder and mystery of exciting life. - Author: Norman Vincent Peale

#17. One foundation of loving relationships is curiosity, keeping open to the idea that we have much to learn even about those we have been close to for decades. - Author: Sharon Salzberg

#18. I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self. - Author: Paul Mooney

#19. Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet. - Author: Chuck D

#20. The feeling of longing for home is born into us. That wonderful dream cannot become real without great faith - enough for the Holy Ghost to lead us to repentance, baptism, and the making and keeping of sacred covenants with God. This faith requires enduring bravely the trials of mortal life. - Author: Henry B. Eyring

#21. I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping me that way was my father. He went to every game even though he was crippled and wasn't real healthy. - Author: Bob Lilly

#22. ReThink Real Success: Keeping your word to others and never lying to yourself - Author: Tony Dovale

#23. She may be an uggo, but that dress would turn anyone into a rock star. - Author: Victoria Scott

#24. While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical culture with black men at the forefront of its creation that has been steeped in the politics of fantasy and denial as the more popular strands of hip-hop. - Author: Bell Hooks

#25. Hey, man. I'm Steve," he said, standing to shake my hand. "Hulk," I introduced myself, keeping my arms at my sides. "Is that your real - " his eyes drifted down my chest and he grinned. "Biker name, huh? I get it." "Probably not," I replied flatly. - Author: Nicole Jacquelyn

#26. According to the psychosurgeons, we act more in keeping with our true selves in a dream than in any other situation, including the throes of orgasm and the moment of our deaths. Maybe that explains why so much of what we do in the real world makes so little sense. - Author: Richard K. Morgan

#27. I don't think Philadelphia's challenge is in coming up with great ideas or having great founders. I think the real challenge is keeping them here. - Author: Josh Kopelman

#28. As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work. - Author: Frances O'Grady

#29. Real Texans believe in looking out for each other. We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy. - Author: Wendy Davis

#30. The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets. - Author: Sharon Salzberg