Motivational Quotes

Reality

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.

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Ellen Herman

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

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

Moore, George

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

Mary Chase

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dick, Philip K.

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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

Weil, Simone

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

Hob Broun

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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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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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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

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In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

Smith, Huston

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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

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You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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

Lee, Al

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

Eliot, George

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

Rostand, Jean

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Albert Einstein

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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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

Lee, Bruce

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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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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

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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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One might speak to great length of the three corners of reality what was seen, what was thought to be seen, and what was thought ought to be seen.

Bell, Marvel

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

Jane Wagner

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

Weil, Simone

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Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

Cyril Connolly

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Garrison Keillor

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Daney, Serge

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

Dr. Karl Menninger

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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

Ballard, J. G.

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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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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Cocteau, Jean

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