Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erich Fromm

The activity at this very moment must be the only thing that matters, to which one is fully given. If one is concentrated, it matters little what one is doing. The important, as well as the unimportant things, assume a new dimension of reality, because they have one's full attention.

Erich Fromm

Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.

Erich Fromm

Freedom is not a constant attribute which we either "have" or "have not." In fact, there is no such thing as "freedom" except as a word and an abstract concept. There is only one reality: the act of freeing ourselves in the process of making choices. In this process the degree of our capacity to make choices varies with each act, with our practice of life.

between the rhetoric here in Washington and the reality on the ground.

Abraham Lincoln

The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Edward Lazear

There's not much we can do about it in the short run, and that's the reality.

Orrin Hatch

is not a myth, it is a reality.

Alan Watts

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

It's something that's a reality, and we're going to respond to it.

It's still a possibility we're going to have some reduction in services, ... The reality is that we have more services than are mandated, a lot more.

Andy Pettitte

It's special. You work all year to make it reality and get to the playoffs.

James Hall

It was more stressful for my mom, but it was a stressful situation for me, on top of a more stressful situation here. Not to use that as an excuse, but that was just the reality of it.

This is what we train for, ... However, it's going to be sad once we're there and see the reality of it all.

Wolfgang Petersen

In reality, I think there aren't really such things as "bad guys" and "good guys.

in the night; when all is still that one unknown sound is heard, the sound of one's own reality

Mila Kunis

I get away with a lot of stuff that no one could get away with in reality!

James Dyson

Reality TV is anything but.

Jason Elam

It crosses your mind every once in a while that it's the AFC championship, but it's not any different. It's that whole thing that pressure's a perception, not a reality. It's what you allow to be put on yourself.

Jarvis Cocker

We've always been a bit out of touch with reality.

Jaron Lanier

External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system.

Janet Evanovich

I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality.

Jane McGonigal

Games are providing rewards that reality is not.

Jane McGonigal

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

Jane McGonigal

Reality is broken. Game designers can fix it.

Jane Rosenthal

Tribeca has always celebrated the most exciting new forms of storytelling, from video games to virtual reality.

Jane Roberts

The private experience that you perceive forms your world, period. But which world do you inhabit? For if you altered your private sensations of reality, then that world, seemingly the only one, would also change. You do go through transformations of beliefs all the time, and your perception of the world is different. You seem to be, no longer, the person you that you were. You are quite correct — you are not the person that you were, and your world has changed, and not just symbolically.

Jane Roberts

You are given the gifts of the gods; you create your reality according to your beliefs.

Jane Roberts

The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities.

Jane Roberts

You are so part of the world that your slightest action contributes to its reality. Your breath changes the atmosphere. Your encounters with others alter the fabrics of their lives, and the lives of those who come in contact with them.

Ethan Coen

We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.

Ethan Hawke

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.

Ethan Hawke

We all have this fantasy of finding our one true love who's going to be the perfect fit. It's just not a reality.

Ethan Hawke

I never thought that I would be labeled something like Generation X because of that movie ( Reality Bites ). I had no idea going into it, and it wasn't a label I could relate to.