Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

- Ellen Herman

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Daney, Serge

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

Weil, Simone

Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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

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

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Lee, Bruce

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

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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and people wake up. Coffee is swilled and eggs are swallowed. Everybody goes about the business of acting like their lives matter and then, no matter how important the events of the day end up being, the sun invariably sets. The sun rose before the soldiers stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, and the sun set after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed. Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.

Josh Lieb

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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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

Garrison Keillor

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Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.

Jane Wagner

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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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 genuine artist is never true to life. He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

Stevens, Wallace

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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

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There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Lee, Al

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

Albert Einstein

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

Lily Tomlin

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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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Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

Moore, George

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The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Rostand, Jean

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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.

Bramah, Ernest

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

Hob Broun

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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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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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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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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

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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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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.

Stein, Gertrude

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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