Motivational Quotes

Reality

Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. what we take to be true is our reality.

- Zukav, Gary

Best Quotes about Reality

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be -- like the reality of yesterday -- an illusion tomorrow.

Pirandello, Luigi

In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

Daney, Serge

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Lee, Bruce

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

Henry Kissinger

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Stevens, Wallace

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

Dr. Karl Menninger

You bluffed me! I don't like it when people bluff me. It makes me question my perception of reality.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

People see the world not as it is, but as they are.

Lee, Al

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest --thought, action --is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

Pavese, Cesare

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Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

Chopra, Deepak

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To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.

Hob Broun

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Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems --but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.

Rushdie, Salman

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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Hesse, Hermann

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It takes only one other person to say it's so-one other point of reality to make something real.

Pancoast, Mal

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Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality. Ed: No thanks.

Ellen Herman

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Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

Dick, Philip K.

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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

Wilde, Oscar

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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.

Mary Chase

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Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.

Camus, Albert

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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick

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The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

Stein, Ben

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Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

Ringer, Robert J.

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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

Miller, Henry

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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Rostand, Jean

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All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all of the things that you shouldn't have done, accept them. You did (or did not) do them. That's reality. That's happened. No changing the past.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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The realist is the man, who having weighed all the visible factors in a given situation and having found that the odds are against him, decides that fighting is useless.

Sales, Raoul De

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The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of this planet.

Kennedy, John F.

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The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place.

Birkman, Roger

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It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between happens and is, on the one hand, and ought, on the other hand.

Kohler, Wolfgang

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To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Eliot, George

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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Garrison Keillor

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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Lily Tomlin

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Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

Weil, Simone

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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.