Quotes about reality
reality artist shining
An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy. Fyodor Dostoevsky
reality people tragedy
What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.
reality people different
Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people is shaped and driven forward by an entirely different kind of force, one which commands and coerces them and the origin of which is obscure and inexplicable despite the reality of its presence.
reality wish use
Paradise is hidden in each one of use, it is concealed within me too, right now, and if I wish, it will come for me in reality, tomorrow even, and for the rest of my life.
reality light shining
Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights. John Ruskin
reality men practice
What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice.
reality unity world
I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe. John Polkinghorne
reality justice needs
I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.
reality understanding different
Theology differs from science in many respects, because of its different subject matter, a personal God who cannot be put to the test in the way that the impersonal physical world can be subjected to experimental enquiry. Yet science and theology have this in common, that each can be, and should be defended as being investigations of what is, the search for increasing verisimilitude in our understanding of reality.
reality conservative results
Duty is ours, results are God's. John Quincy Adams
reality games decision
I do like our young talent here, but it needs to get better. And we need some better veterans if we can go out and get them. We all get discouraged by losing. I sit there every game and see the little things that happen and you feel like they cost you games. But the reality is that we are still some time away from being what I hope we can be. And that's going to take some good decision-making on our part. John Paxson
reality mind sometimes
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. Norman Douglas
reality rights development
I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade. Norman Granz
reality optimism leader
Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act. Nitin Nohria
reality ideas knowing
And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ...We paleontologist have said that the history of life supports that interpretation [gradual adaptive change], all the while knowing that it does not. Niles Eldredge
reality getting-older atheism
If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow. Mitch Albom
reality opposites stuff
Im unfinished. Im unfixed. And the reality is thats where God meets me is in the mess of my life, in the unfixedness, in the brokenness. I thought he did the opposite, he got rid of all that stuff. But if you read the Bible, if you look at it at all, constantly he was showing up in peoples lives at the worst possible time of their life. Mike Yaconelli
reality years television
You feel a little weird, as a writer of scripted television for many years, to say you're a fan of reality TV. You feel like a traitor. But I am a total fan. Mike White
reality thinking special
Being in the ring became my reality, and, in my reality, I'd think I was someone special. Mike Tyson
reality imitation
Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature. Robert Henri
reality two government
You can't ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having limited government, lower taxes, and free societies. Rick Santorum
reality hands ideas
There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say 'let's just build a fence' and be done with it and wipe our hands, and it's going to secure the border, that's not reality. Rick Perry
reality littles sometimes
Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check. Taylor Hanson
reality catholic suffering
I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that ‘do what makes you happy’ thing in check. Edward Burns
reality law fiction
It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstracto—it is invisible, immortal, and rests only in intendment and consideration of the law. Edward Coke
reality different logic
My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's. Edward Albee
reality differences interesting
Being different is ... interesting; there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.
reality
In rehearsals I get so completely wrapped up with the reality that's occurring on stage that by the time the play has opened I'm not usually quite as aware of the distinctions between what I'd intended and the result. There are many ways of getting the same result.
reality people want
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
reality realizing most-powerful
[Visualisation] works most powerfully when you realize that it is already a reality on the unseen level. It's already there. Eckhart Tolle
reality suffering way
Everything is as it is at any moment. There's no way of arguing, because you are arguing with reality - the isness of this moment. You can argue with it, but that's suffering.
reality mind environmental
But it is important to realize we are all trapped in mental constructs, and so we separate ourselves from reality; the whole world loses its aliveness-or, rather, we lose our ability to sense that aliveness, the sacredness of nature. When we approach nature through the conceptualizing mind, we see a forest as a commodity, a concept. We no longer see it for what it truly is, but for what we want to use it as. It is reduced. This is how it becomes possible for humans to destroy the planet without realizing what they are doing.
reality important enabling
Neither God nor Being nor any other word can define or explain the ineffable reality behind the word, so the only important question is whether the word is a help or a hindrance in enabling you to experience That toward which it points.