Motivational Quotes

Reality

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Dick, Philip K.

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

Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bramah, Ernest

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

Philip K. Dick

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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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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Moore, George

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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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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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

Cyril Connolly

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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Ellen Herman

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.

Daniels, Victor

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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

Trilling, Lionel

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham