Reality Quotes - Page 20

• 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 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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• 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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• Donald Trump isn't really running for president, come on! This is obviously a new reality show, Celebrity Presidential Apprentice. It ends with the incompetent celebrity being berated, humiliated, then unceremoniously fired.

  Michael R. Burch

  Running, Presidential, Ends

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• Donald Trump said he will not decide about a possible run for the presidency until after the current season of Celebrity Apprentice wraps up. Say what you want about Trump, at least this guy has his priorities in order. He doesn't want to let actual reality get in the way of his reality show.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Order, Priorities

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• Remembrances last longer than present realities.

  Jean Paul

  Remembrance, Lasts

  Jean Paul (1862). “Titan: A Romance”, p.36

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• There is a certain point of unity within the self, and between the self and its world, certain complicity and magnetic mating, a certain harmony, that conscious mind and will cannot direct. Perhaps analysis and the separate mastery of each element are required before the instincts are ready to assume command, but only at first. Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.

  Michael Novak

  Discovery, Self, Unity

  Michael Novak (1993). “The Joy of Sports: End Zones, Bases, Baskets, Balls, and the Consecration of the American Spirit”, p.172, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Our external physical reality is a mathematical structure.

  Max Tegmark

  Structure, Mathematical

  "Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality". Book by Max Tegmark, January 7, 2014.

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• Give weather reports. It helps the reality of a scene if foghorns are blowing or kites are in the sky on a windy afternoon or the day's so hot wallpaper is peeling off the walls.

  Sid Fleischman

  Wall, Sky, Weather

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• Conservatism is the politics of reality

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Conservatism

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• The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, Reflection, Art Is

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.243, Beacon Press

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• In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Fall, Heart

  Victor Hugo (2001). “William Shakespeare”, p.80, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• You visualize yourself as the person you want to be. You strive to make the ideal in your mind become a reality on the canvas of Time.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Mind, Want, Canvas

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• Theology differs from science in many respects, because of its different subject matter, a personal God who cannot be put to the test in the way that the impersonal physical world can be subjected to experimental enquiry. Yet science and theology have this in common, that each can be, and should be defended as being investigations of what is, the search for increasing verisimilitude in our understanding of reality.

  John Polkinghorne

  Understanding, Tests, Matter

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• A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If it does not, if it is charged with "ideals," it is merely a variety of romantic fiction, although it may not be recognized as such.

  Revilo P. Oliver

  Philosophy, Political, Doe

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• There's a new reality born every minute. Unless one is a believer in predestination (in which case I'll call the prestidigitator), or other puppet-like restraints on our powers, one is free to imagine and effect changes on the world. And if enough people do it, there are big changes. These things happen. Anything can.

  Neil Peart

  People, World, Puppets

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• Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Turns, Surround

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• Meaning is made in conversation, reality is created in communication, and knowledge is generated through social interaction.... Language is the vehicle through which we create our understanding of the world.

  Diana Whitney

  Communication, Understanding, World

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• In documentary we deal with the actual, and in one sense with the real. But the really real, if I may use that phrase, is something deeper than that. The only reality which counts in the end is the interpretation which is profound

  John Grierson

  Real, Profound, Phrases

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• Bitterness grows in us when we fail to see the trouble and pain in our lives from God's point of view, and when our expectations of what life should be diverge from the reality of what life really is.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Pain, Views, Expectations

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• When contemplating a work of art it is possible to perceive if it has been created according to the eye or to the spirit, in other words, if it projects three-dimensional reality or spiritual n-dimensionality.

  Theo van Doesburg

  Spiritual, Art, Eye

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• Many upscale American parents somehow think jobs like their own are part of the nation's natural order. They are not. In Europe, they have already discovered that, and many there have accepted the new small-growth, small-jobs reality. Will we?

  Daniel Henninger

  Jobs, Thinking, Order

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• If ever I had any doubts about the fundamental realities of religion, they could always be dispelled by one memory- the light upon my father's face as he came back from early communion.

  Alfred Noyes

  Memories, Father, Light

  Alfred Noyes (1953). “Two worlds for memory”

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