Quotes about reality
reality men position
Man can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality. Erich Fromm
reality unimportant-things attention
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
reality men contradiction
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
reality practice choices
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. Erich Fromm
reality illusion
An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality. Erich Fromm
reality thinking people
I think a lot of people, when they read about a woman who acknowledges her sexuality and her feelings, get really scared. They say they want to be fearless, but in reality they're terrified. If they acknowledge their deepest feelings, they might have to change their lives. Erica Jong
reality fantasy sometimes
We all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality. Erica Jong
reality venice air
Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities. Erica Jong
reality photograph curious
Photographs... are the most curious indicators of reality. Erica Jong
reality envy gossip
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. Erica Jong
reality order people
Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It's tightening the belt, it's learning how to do more with less. That's a reality today, and we've got to do that in order to get the private sector growing. Eric Cantor
reality israel america
Israel deserves America's friendship in reality - not just in rhetoric. Eric Cantor
reality
Your true image is not something to get; it is a reality to discover.
reality way enlightening
I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery. Eric Cantona
reality emotional mind
It's very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don't really have that much control with it. Eric Clapton
reality innocence collide
I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality. Geoffrey S. Fletcher
reality thinking instruments
I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality. Gary Ross
reality imagination back-and-forth
Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality. Gary Paulsen
reality doors car
Here in my car, I feel safest of all, I can lock all the doors. Gary Numan
reality museums decay
Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay. Gary Oldman
reality teammate helping
I just haven't really had a chance to allow to sink in. I'm sure there is going to come a time when reality is going to hit me and I'm going to know that it's going to be a while before I help my teammates, and that's going to be hard for me. Gabe Kapler
reality two levels
It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place. Gabriel Byrne
reality confusing acting
And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that. Gabriel Byrne
reality imagination lines
It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
reality imagination caribbean
Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
reality letters slipping
Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
reality probability permanent
and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
reality literature patterns
The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
reality everyday floating
and both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love... Gabriel Garcia Marquez
reality emotional hands
It was also her nature that caused her letters to avoid emotional pitfalls and confine themselves to relating the events of her daily life in the utilitarian style of a ship's log. In reality they were distracted letters, intended to keep the coals alive without putting her hand in the fire, while Florentino Ariza burned himself alive in every line. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
reality literature woods
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
reality keys house
In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
reality soul body
The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia. Gabriel Garcia Marquez