Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pema Chodron

As for our inner level of obstacle, perhaps the only enemy we have is that we don't like the way reality is now and therefore wish it would go away fast. But what we need to acknowledge is that nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Pema Chodron

The Process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality...

Phil Gramm

I think in the end we will have negotiations with the House. They don't have any incentive for a long, drawn-out trial. We'll have negotiations with the White House. Despite all their threats they are going to have a prolonged defense. The reality is they are the driving force behind getting this over quickly.

Phil Donahue

In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.

Phil Collins

Non-physicality may soon come to dominate our reality. Thanx Quatum Mechanics!

Peter Sellers

Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.

Peter Senge

An accurate, insightful view of current reality is as important as a clear vision.

Peter Senge

The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly

Peter Senge

Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively.

Peter Senge

In some ways clarifying a vision is easy. A more difficult challenge comes in facing current reality.

Peter Senge

Leadership is about creating new realities.

Peter Senge

Reality is made up of circles but we see straight lines.

Peter Senge

Leadership exists when people are no longer victims of circumstances but participate in creating new circumstances. Leadership is about creating a domain in which human beings continually deepen their understanding of reality and become more capable of participating in the unfolding of the world. Ultimately, leadership is about creating new realities.

Peter Piot

The reality is that the AIDS epidemic continues to outstrip the global and national efforts to contain it.

Pete Sampras

I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.

Pierre Trudeau

In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should point out to us the paths of liberty. The great lesson to draw from revolutions is not that they devour humanity but rather that tyranny never fails to generate them.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We only have to look around us to see how complexity ... and psychic "temperature" are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale of the individual but now on that of the planet. This indication is so familiar to us that we cannot but recognize the objective, experiential, reality of a directionally controlled transformation of the Noosphere "as a whole."

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.

Rachel Carson

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Rachel Cusk

Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.

Rachel Cusk

Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative.

Rachel Carson

We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated and priestlike in their laboratories. This is not true. The materials of science are the materials of life itself. Science is part of the reality of living; it is the way, the how and the why for everything in our experience.

Rachel Carson

We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then only, and from this biased point of view, we have looked outward at the earth he has inhabited so briefly and at the universe in which our earth is so minute a part. Yet these are the great realities, and against them we see our human problems in a different perspective. Perhaps if we reversed the telescope and looked at man down these long vistas, we should find less time and inclination to plan for our own destruction.

Rachel Carson

Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.

Puff Daddy

Gotta be more than grabbing nines to buck tin in, gotta be more than just to lust women, gotta be more than platinum Rolexes.

Pythagoras

A thought is an idea in transit.

Plato

The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

Plato

The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

Maggie Stiefvater

So here's my theory, and this is such crap science, I don't have to tell you. It's science without microscopes, blood tests, or reality.

Maggie Stiefvater

I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me.

Madame de Stael

There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.

Haruki Murakami

That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.