Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shunryu Suzuki

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

Shunryu Suzuki

Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.

Shimon Peres

When it becomes a bloody reality, we have to come together and look at what can be done to return to the order of peace, ... There is no alternative to it.

Shannon Elizabeth

I watch every reality show out there.

Seth Shostak

Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. Theyre about telling stories.

Seymour Hersh

The reality is that Qaddafi has been trying to talk to us about his weapons system for years, and we ignored him. The Libyans even came to me about two years ago and offered me a chance to go through their facilities because they couldn't get anybody's attention here.

Seth

If you become so frightened of realities that are not your own, if you take upon yourselves tragedies that do not exist in your reality, in your moment, then you weaken your position and weaken the position, of those you think you are helping. You look about you and you see only hopelessness and helplessness. You organize your reality according to the tragedies of the newspapers!

Seth

There is no other way to change your physical reality but by changing your thoughts.

Seth

You create your own reality. There is no other rule.

Seth

Forget the cringing selves you sometimes are and remember, instead, the magic essence of your own being that sings even now through your fingertips. That is the reality which you are seeking. Experience it fully.

Seth

The true power is in the imagination which dares to speculate upon that which is not yet. The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probabilities.

Seth

You are meant to judge physical reality. You are meant to realize that it is a materialization of your thoughts and feelings and images, that the inner self forms that world. In your terms, you cannot be allowed to go into other dimensions until you have learned the great power of your thoughts and subjective feelings.

Seth

You create your reality. You will find this freedom by learning to look inward, and by realizing that you create the reality that you know. There are no exceptions to this rule. Your successes and your failures alike, you have yourselves created. If you would but understand, this is the truth that would make you free.

L. Ron Hubbard

The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

The middle class is growing that's the reality that nobody can stop.

Lewis Thomas

We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch.

Leslie Banks

I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us.

Leonard Mlodinow

Says Bargh: "We all hold dear idea that we´re the captain of our own sould, and we´re in charge, and it´s a very scary feeling when we are not. In fact, that´s what psychosis is - the feeling of detachment from reality and that you are not in control, and that´s a very frightening feeling for anyone."

Lawrence Bossidy

Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results.

Lawrence Durrell

To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.

Lawrence Durrell

We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point.

Neil Peart

Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.

Viktor E. Frankl

Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.

Vanna Bonta

The realm of quanta is how I have intrinsically approached and viewed reality since I was born.

Val Kilmer

I was looking for projects, as you always are, and I read this scene . . . and I'm in the Hollywood Hills. So I thought, 'This is interesting.' You have this setup that seems to be based in some reality and you can only wonder where Black's going to go with this.

Uta Hagen

Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.

Sutton Foster

People have asked if I would go back to my 20s, and I'm like, "Only if I could hold onto the wisdom and the things that I've learned." But in reality, I don't think I'd want to even go back then. I'm so happy with where I'm at. My life is very content. Everything feels really good. I wouldn't want to change any of that. I'm happy for all the ups and the downs, and everything that has led me to where I am. I wouldn't want to lose any of that.

Susanna Kaysen

It was my misfortune-or salvation-to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality.

Suzanne Collins

Katniss, got that spile?" Finnick asks, snapping me back to reality.

Suzanne Collins

Peeta and I had adjoining cells in the Capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams.” Annie, who's on Johanna's other side, does that thing where she covers her ears and exits reality. Finnick shoots Johanna an angry look as his arm encircles Annie. “What? My head doctor says I'm not supposed to censor my thoughts. It's part of my therapy,” replies Johanna.

Sophocles

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

Stephen Kinzer

Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.

Stephen Levine

God is not someone or something separate but is the suchness in each moment, the underlying reality.