Reality Quotes - page 6

To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics. (Mary McCarthy)
Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
The mind is the reality. You are what you think. View quote
Alfred Bester
Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you. View quote
Alex Haley
In the journey of an entrepreneur, the most important thing is self-belief and the ability to convert that belief into reality. View quote
Mukesh Ambani
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by. View quote
Ralph Ellison
Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species. View quote
Don DeLillo
We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality. View quote
Nhat Hanh
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. View quote
Nhat Hanh
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. View quote
Napoleon Hill
Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion. (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do. View quote
Maurice Sendak
The lowest form of popular culture-lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives-has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. View quote
Carl Bernstein
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. View quote
Jack Welch
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality. View quote
James A. Michener
Metaphysics is names about reality. Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty-thousand-page menu and no food. View quote
Robert M. Pirsig
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. View quote
Lloyd Alexander
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom. View quote
T. S. Eliot
I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end the fundamentalists, the beginning when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town. View quote
William Faulkner
A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realities-never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked. (John Steinbeck)
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. View quote
Richard Feynman
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. View quote
Ray Bradbury
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Reality is frequently inaccurate. View quote
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