Reality Quotes - Page 15

• The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.

  Anita Brookner

  Self, Fulfilled

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• We've got to have a legacy of leadership. We've got to bring along with us a generation of black women who are going to confront twenty-first-century realities.

  Jewell Jackson McCabe

  Black, Twenties, Legacy

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• Indeed, we have reached a level of complexity where simplicity itself is suspect. For example, the simple reality is that jobs migrate to less difficult nations. It's the old Rule of Capital: Capital goes where it is treated well.

  Oliver DeMille

  Jobs, Simple, Simplicity

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• Thoughts are created in the act of writing. [It is a myth that] you must have something to say in order to write. Reality: You often need to write in order to have anything to say. Thought comes with writing, and writing may never come if it is postponed until we are satisfied that we have something to say...The assertion of write first, see what you had to say later applies to all manifestations of written language, to letters...as well as to diaries and journals

  Frank Smith

  Writing, Order, Needs

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• The development of physics in the twentieth century already has transformed the consciousness of those involved with it. The study (of modern physics) produces insights into the nature of reality very similar to those produced by the study of eastern philosophy.

  Gary Zukav

  Philosophy, Development, Study

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• This harmony that human intelligence believes it discovers in nature - does it exist apart from that intelligence? No, without doubt, a reality completely independent of the spirit which conceives it, sees it or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so exterior as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us. But what we call objective reality is, in the last analysis, that which is common to several thinking beings, and could be common to all; this common part, we will see, can be nothing but the harmony expressed by mathematical laws.

  Henri Poincare

  Believe, Independent, Thinking

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• I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.

  Robert Barry

  Trying, Manipulate, Happens

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• The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Memories, Past

  Jorge Luis Borges (2015). “Ficciones”, p.14, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Man does not see reality as it is, but only as he perceives it, and his perception may be mistaken or biased.

  Rudolf Dreikurs

  Men, Perception, Doe

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• Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes; knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth; it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, Order, Roots

  Erich Fromm (2017). “Fascism, Power, and Individual Rights: Escape from Freedom, To Have or To Be?, and The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.328, Open Road Media

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• I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.

  John Polkinghorne

  Justice, Needs, World

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• It turns out Dungeons & Dragons is much better on paper than it is in reality.

  Robin Sloan

  Dragons, Dungeons, Paper

  "Robin Sloan’s Low-Tech Triumph". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. November 14, 2012.

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• The issue of animal use and abuse can seem insurmountable, it is tragic and it is complex. We love our companion animals and we value wildlife but we are generally blind to the realities of what goes into the food we eat.

  Liz Marshall

  Animal, Issues, Abuse

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Pink culture is presented in a positive, pink and gentle way bordering on the thinking that we are "close" to finding a cure. This does not reflect today's reality of more women dying around the world from this disease and the lack of real progress.

  Leanne Pooley

  Real, Thinking, Progress

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I never believe I'm presenting objective reality; I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly to them.

  Joe Berlinger

  Believe, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Adults trying to protect children from reality, right? And adults always trying to fill children with fantasy - the tooth fairy, Santa, make-believe games, etc. But kids are really smart, I think they know from an early age about death, this void and hole they are immediately traveling toward.

  Shane Warren Jones

  Children, Smart, Believe

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Mother Earth is in pain and ailing - bglobal warming. The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty. When I was born, there were 2.5 billion people living on the whole planet. Now there are 2.5 billion people living on less than $2 a day. That's the kind of reality we have to deal with.

  Danny Glover

  Mother, Pain, Issues

  "Black power mixtpe co-producer Danny Glover opens up". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.pbs.org. February 7, 2012.

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• Symbols mean a lot in politics. They indicate a will and create new realities.

  Francois Hollande

  Mean, Symbols

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• Conservative feminism is such an artificial term that doesn't mean much to me. For me conservatism means accepting reality. I acknowledge that there are differences between men and women.

  Kristina Schroder

  Mean, Men, Differences

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• "Hello" is always presented as a linear narrative, a singular chain, sometimes in a loop. But the reality of making it is that connections are naturally sprawling all over the place, so I am free to edit any way I want.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Connections, Want, Narrative

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.

  Jim Woodring

  Vision, Dull, Surprise

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I'd like to believe that I would be able to give in the same way Mandela did, but in reality, I don't know whether that is true. It is much more likely that I would be left with an immense sense of injustice and immense desire for revenge.

  Naomie Harris

  Revenge, Believe, Giving

  Interview with Jeffrey Wright, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 23, 2013.

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• I usually see the word "metafiction" applied to works that draw attention to their own devices, their own artificiality, in order to mock novelistic convention and show the impossibility of capturing a reality external to the text or whatever.

  Ben Lerner

  Order, Attention, Conventions

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Stores are the same everywhere; small downtowns are done. Not just in America, but globally. You hear the same music on every station, all our building materials look the same, and all our clothes look the same. But I thought that it couldn't be that simple, because Arizona is not Minnesota. There is this other reality, which is a reality of landscape.

  Cynthia Daignault

  Simple, Clothes, America

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When your head is smashing into the concrete you don't have question about whether it's a real sensation. And ultimately, that's what's going to unmake us all - smashing up against the physical reality of death and decay, and being unmade.

  Will Sheff

  Real, Decay, Smashing

  Source: www.believermag.com

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