Quotes about reality
reality perception important
So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality. Daniel Keys Moran
reality suffering weakness
We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place. Daniel J. Boorstin
reality different alternatives
Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations. Daniel Kahneman
reality risk perception
Doubts are suppressed by groups... But remember that the internal incentives that shape how the group perceives risks and rewards may be very different from the reality of the risks and rewards in the external marketplace. Those incentives can distort risk perception. Daniel Kahneman
reality simple people
If people can construct a simple and coherent story, they will feel confident regardless of how well grounded it is in reality. Daniel Kahneman
reality looks littles
Looks like it's time to liven up this dead little town!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug) D. J. MacHale
reality thinking quests
What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality. Czeslaw Milosz
reality creative departed
Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism. D. H. Lawrence
reality knows
God doesn't know things. He is things. D. H. Lawrence
reality hypocrisy over-it
The only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words. D. H. Lawrence
reality choices
We all create our own reality by the choices we make. Cuba Gooding, Jr.
reality lines fantasy
There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy. Conor Oberst
reality artist careers
I prefer career artists that have spent time honing their craft, as opposed to, 'I won a karaoke contest on a reality show and now I have a record.' That's such a drag. The music that comes out of it is so poor. Conor Oberst
reality people aging
The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people. Dan Buettner
reality perception born
Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born. Dan Brown
reality thinking people
Everyone thinks that religion is the ball and chain. But the reality is that sin is the ball and chain. A relationship with Christ is the freedom that people are looking for in alcohol and drugs. Dan Brown
reality men unity
If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality. David Friedrich Strauss
reality gentleman ovation
Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality – there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth – actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested. David Foster
reality important want
If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is and who and what is really important-if you want to operate on your default-setting-then you, like me, will not consider possibilities that aren't pointless and annoying. David Foster Wallace
reality important obvious
...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about. David Foster Wallace
reality artist vision
What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves, they've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings. David Foster Wallace
reality self mind
For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do. David Cronenberg
reality space generations
There we were all in one place, a generation lost in space. Don McLean
reality church-bells broken
Not a word was spoken. The church bells all were broken. Don McLean
reality thinking done
I think that's the reality of the business. It's not about what you did. It's what have you done for me lately. We're in the production business. What you did before is irrelevant. Everyone knows that. Don Davis
reality contribution
A good poem is a contribution to reality. Dylan Thomas
reality cases discrepancies
In cases of major discrepancy its always reality thats got it wrong ... reality is frequently inaccurate. Douglas Adams
reality statistics guides
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate. Douglas Adams
reality afterlife religion
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. Douglas Adams
reality grain
Beauty alters the grain of reality, Donna Tartt
reality lessons succeed
Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality. Donna Tartt
reality understanding machines
By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality. Donald Knuth
reality haunting world
I am the Mindfreak, there's no Reality! Just this World of Illusion that keeps on haunting me... Criss Angel