Quotes about reality
reality tradition passages
Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn't clear ... was toward what place, what reality, that passage led. Roberto Bolano
reality past events
Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. Robert Penn Warren
reality looks four
James got some good looks that he just didn't knock down, as did Buckley. James has been pretty consistent, but the reality is when he and Melvin go 2 for 21 and Solomon (Jones) only gets four offensive rebounds, this is going to be the outcome. Robert McCullum
reality thinking data
What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses. Robert M. Pirsig
reality vision moments
Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality. Robert M. Pirsig
reality intellectual quality
Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality, but the patterns are not the reality they describe. Robert M. Pirsig
reality unity way
The Good was not a form of reality. It was reality itself, ever-changing, ultimately unknowable in any kind of fixed, rigid way. Robert M. Pirsig
reality two lasts
The last time we had Freddy in reality was part two and Freddy sort of went out on his own. Robert Englund
reality men giving
Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit; the pieces of the plot snap together momentarily and give men faint glimpses beyond the veil of this everyday blindness we call reality. Robert E. Howard
reality not-good-enough done
It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation. Walt Kelly
reality fantasy-and-reality fantasy
Fantasy and reality often overlap. Walt Disney
reality shows disneyland
Disneyland is a show. Walt Disney
reality imagination my-imagination
My imagination creates my reality. Walt Disney
reality tomorrow impossible
Many of the things that seem impossible now will become realities tomorrow. Walt Disney
reality thinking light
I really like romantic comedies and light movies and everything but I think - I don't know where it comes from - but when you're doing violent movies, you're closer to reality. Vincent Cassel
reality administration serious
My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality. Vinton Cerf
reality space brain
An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there [in a Daguerreotype] so well by the limner's cunning. Time, space, both are annihilated, and we identify the semblance with the reality. Walt Whitman
reality accepting dare
I accept reality and dare not question it. Walt Whitman
reality people done
I want to connect music to its highest power - which is heightening consciousness and affecting people's reality. That can't be done in normal ways, not according to my experience. Saul Williams
reality world rules-for-radicals
As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. Saul Alinsky
reality doe different
An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth -- truth to him is relative and changing; everything to him is relative and changing.... To the extent that he is free from the shackles of dogma, he can respond to the realities of the widely different situations.... Saul Alinsky
reality guy perception
You can't tell me what we're doing right now is not working. The perception is, well, it's not. I don't deal in perception. I want to deal in reality. The reality of the matter is that the percentage of guys who are taking has gone way down. Tom Glavine
reality names differences
There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the names and dates. The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense. Tom Clancy
reality men perception
We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality. Tim LaHaye
reality spirituality
Reality is negotiable. Tim Ferriss
reality television world
Doing reality TV is a lot harder than I thought because I come from the world of [scripted] television where everything is thought out and you know what's going to happen, your lines, what your wardrobe is going to be, etc. But with reality, it's very spontaneous and the cameras are around for 12 hours a day. Tia Mowry
reality men law
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. Samuel Adams
reality objectivity best-effort
Science has long been in the values business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of scientists abstaining from making value judgments; rather, scientific validity is the result of scientists making their best effort to value priinciples of reasoning that link their beliefs to reality, through reliable chains of evidence and argument. Sam Harris
reality age remains
Hope remains the highest reality, the age-old power. Ronald Reagan
reality people wonder
Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory. Ronald Reagan
reality people perception
Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language. Ron Paul
reality thinking thank-god
Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality. Sam Mendes
reality magic breathe
The work of magic is this, that it breathes and at every breath transforms realities. Rumi