Quotes about reality
reality granted notion
'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted. Andrew O'Hagan
reality brushes process
Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing. Andre Breton
reality worry would-be
It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life. Andre Gide
reality views
Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself. Anne Fadiman
reality wish flip
I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time. Anne Fortier
reality yelling sound
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling. Anne Carson
reality more-time sentimentality
In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality. Anne Frank
reality ideas vision
You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality Anita Roddick
reality thinking links
I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality, he will not achieve even superficial credibility, let alone authenticity and inner truth. Andrei Tarkovsky
reality way world
Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. Andrei Tarkovsky
reality imagination my-imagination
Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination? Andrei Tarkovsky
reality thinking want
So if reality is all a spell, and you don't really want what you think you want... If you have no free will. You don't really know what you know. You don't really love who you only think you love. What do you have left to live for? Chuck Palahniuk
reality skills law
I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that. Chuck Palahniuk
reality years decision
We can't ... take that piece of reality in this business and set that aside and say, well, that doesn't count. And the Republicans on my side understand that the majority is in fact up for grabs next year. So there's not a decision made up here that doesn't have that factor coursing through that current. Chuck Hagel
reality iraq white
Things aren't getting better; they're getting worse. The White House is completely disconnected from reality. It's like they're just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we're losing in Iraq. Chuck Hagel
reality people decision
Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift. Chuck Hagel
reality rocks support
It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn. Chuck Klosterman
reality games television
Television is not my favorite medium, my favorite form of entertainment. Certainly game shows aren't. I don't watch reality shows at all. Chuck Barris
reality want sometimes
Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from. Chuck Close
reality hard-times people
Young people are having a hard time with what's reality and what's fantasy these days...We created discussion. It wasn't to create controversy for sale's sake, but rather it was my obligation to use the medium for discussion. Nobody's discussing the grown-up topics; they are faking and fronting. Chuck D.
reality lines ifs
Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing. Christopher Walken
reality men new-experiences
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. Christopher McCandless
reality trying spoons
If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality. Christopher Meloni
reality definitions noble
Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities. Christopher Morley
reality photographer spirit
Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation. Ansel Adams
reality ego training
The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes identified with the infinite reality of all things. Anne Bancroft
reality ideas always-trying
Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to. Andrew Cohen
reality differences add
Correlation across replicated environments adds a whole new dimension of complexity of the environment, ... You would expect most application groups to have the same set of policies. In reality, you have differences in policies. That reflects back to that whole process of manual storing in the environment. Andrew Bird
reality want projects
If I had a project that I had auditioned for and I was getting close to getting it, I didn't want to tell anybody because I thought then I wouldn't get it, but in reality that really had no bearing on whether or not I got a part. Amy Adams
reality tolerance world
Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality. Anthony Daniels
reality world looks
As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology. Anthony de Mello
reality
Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is? Anthony de Mello
reality light darkness
Understand your darkness and it will vanish; then you will know what light is. Understand your nightmare for what it is and it will stop; then you will wake up to reality. Understand your false beliefs and they will drop; then you will know the taste of happiness. Anthony de Mello