Reality Quotes - Page 18

• As we all know, reality has a liberal bias.

  Stephen Colbert

  Bias, Knows

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• When your tongue is silent, you can rest in the silence of the forest. When your imagination is silent, the forest speaks to you. It tells you of its unreality and of the Reality of God. But when your mind is silent, then the forest suddenly becomes magnificently real and blazes transparently with the Reality of God.

  Thomas Merton

  Real, Imagination, Silence

  Thomas Merton (1979). “The Sign of Jonas”, Mariner Books

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• The central benefit of Zen, in the context of ordinary ups and downs of life,is not in preventing the minus and promoting the plus,but in directing people to the fundamental reality that is not under the sway of ups and downs.

  Muso Soseki

  People, Ordinary, Fundamentals

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• The owl is one of the most curious creatures. A bird that stays awake when the rest of the world sleeps. They can see in the dark. I find that so interesting, to be mired in reality when the rest of the world is dreaming. What does he see and what does he know that the rest of the world is missing?

  M.J. Rose

  Dream, Sleep, Dark

  M. J. Rose (2014). “Seduction: A Novel of Suspense”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• The word entrepreneur is associated with success and adventure. From my life, the only thing I can tell you that's consistently associated with entrepreneurship is failure, and the only thing consistently associated with invention is frustration. There is a long road between the idea and the reality.

  Dean Kamen

  Adventure, Frustration, Ideas

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• Every single moment of reality instantly turns into memories; reality can not be caught; we can only catch memories.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Memories, Single Mom, Moments

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• Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality.

  Ayn Rand

  Cognition, Tools, Emotion

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• The undiscovered is not far away. It's not something to be found eventually. It is contained within what is right in front of us. The essence of reality is being born right now. It has never existed before.

  H. E Davey

  Yoga, Essence, Far Away

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• The claim that everybody sees the world differently is not a claim that there's no reality. It's a different kind of claim.

  Errol Morris

  Different, World, Kind

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Nations are an historic reality in Europe. They all have different histories, and they joined the EU at very different times and under widely differing circumstances. I was mayor of Warsaw for three years and always in favor of Poland joining the EU. But I also experienced how we had to implement EU regulations that were completely inappropriate to our situation.

  Lech Kaczynski

  Years, Europe, Favors

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We measure our success of love in the images of love. But those images are static. And it's a hopeless project, because our love will never be like that image. The actual reality of love in our lives is much more chaotic.

  Pernille Fischer Christensen

  Images Of Love, Our Love, Hopeless

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm a person who acknowledges reality. I don't get up every morning and ask myself: What would I do differently if I were chancellor in a black-and-yellow (Christian Democrat and Free Democrat) coalition? The SPD (Social Democratic Party) and the (Christian Democrat and Christian Social) Union stand to weaken their own positions if they don't make this coalition a success. And we both want success.

  Angela Merkel

  Christian, Morning, Party

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• Doing reality TV is a lot harder than I thought because I come from the world of [scripted] television where everything is thought out and you know what's going to happen, your lines, what your wardrobe is going to be, etc. But with reality, it's very spontaneous and the cameras are around for 12 hours a day.

  Tia Mowry

  Cameras, Television, World

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I joke that I stick with the job because it covers my insurance, but the reality is that my career has always been very important to me.

  Michelle Obama

  Jobs, Careers, Important

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I've always said it's flattering to be desired, just as it's flattering that people accept the reality of the character you play. But it was always ridiculous to assume that because I could play a gigolo on screen I'd play anything like that role off screen.

  Richard Gere

  Character, Play, People

  "The Hoax - Richard Gere interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Once upon a time, there was a boy who learned to read at the age of 5. This changed his life. Owing to the adventure tales he read, he discovered a way to escape from the poor house, the poor country, and the poor reality in which he lived.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Country, Adventure, Boys

  "Peruvian Writer Mario Vargas Llosa on the Importance of Literature". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 31, 2012.

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• We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment, but a way to act.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Ideas, Way, Entertainment

  "Peruvian Writer Mario Vargas Llosa on the Importance of Literature". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 31, 2012.

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• New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone. There's a nice sense of reality on the set and it's really enjoyable. There's a good camaraderie and a good banter between the obviously New Zealand and Australian rivalry.

  Dustin Clare

  Nice, Mean, Australia

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• I think in general, people look at all Olympic athletes, look at all superstar athletes, and they say, "Okay, this guy doesn't have any insecurities." They're almost like these icons who - I don't know how to say it, but like they can't make mistakes. But the reality is, and I'll tell you this firsthand, a lot of great athletes have a lot of insecurities, and they have a really hard time dealing with a lot of so-called losing or however you want to classify it.

  Apolo Ohno

  Mistake, Athlete, Hard Times

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Why does merely attempting to understand Reality so often seem to lead to going insane?

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Insane, Doe, Attempting

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• I never miss reality when I'm not in it, but it's sometimes nice to come back to.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Nice, Missing, Sometimes

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• My first line of defense against reality is called sleep.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Sleep, Firsts, Defense

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• Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Cutting, Doe, Abstract

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• Perhaps one day the dreams of Utopists may be realized and humanity will shake off the chains of materialism which still separate us from what we think to be supernatural knowledge, but which, in reality, is already in us, only waiting to be discerned.

  Emile Coue

  Dream, Thinking, Waiting

  Émile Coué (1923). “My method, including American impressions”

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• Be willing to face life squarely and get down beneath the surface of life where the verities and realities are to be found.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Faces, Found, Beneath The Surface

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.9, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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