Reality Quotes - Page 25

• What we call progress consists in coordinating ideas with realities.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Ideas, Progress, Coordinating

  Alfred Korzybski (1974). “Manhood of humanity”, p.28, Рипол Классик

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• Natural Theology says not only look up and look out-it also says look down and look in, and you will find the proofs of the reality of God in the depth of your own nature.

  Christopher Dawson

  Depth, Looks, Down And

  Christopher Dawson (2013). “Religion and Culture”, p.23, CUA Press

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• The culture of irony is the culture of postmodernism, which I would furiously want to denounce. We have to act ethically and politically. Irony is a defensive position, against reality. It always knows what to think about reality. The idea of commitment and engagement is central to me, which is not ironic.

  Simon Critchley

  Commitment, Thinking, Ideas

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• If we lived for reality, we'd be dead, every last one of us. Only dreams keep us going.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Dream, Acting, Lasts

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Repentance is a realization that what God wants from you and what you want from God are not going to be achieved by doing the same old things, thinking the same old thoughts. Repentance is a decision to follow Jesus Christ and become his pilgrim in the path of peace. Repentance is the most practical of all words and the most practical of all acts. It is a feet-on-the-ground-kind-of-word. It puts a person in touch with the reality that God creates.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Jesus, Thinking, Old Things

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• You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality

  Anita Roddick

  Ideas, Vision, Hungry

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• People at large are becoming more aware that there is much more to reality and to themselves than what meets the eye.

  Vanna Bonta

  Eye, People, Becoming

  "Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview". Interview with Laurel van der Linde, 2007.

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• Essentially 'Flight' is just an adventure of multiple realities.

  Vanna Bonta

  Adventure, Flight, Multiple

  "Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview". Interview with Laurel van der Linde, 2007.

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• Before a vision (dream) can become a reality, it must be owned by every member of the group.

  Phil Jackson

  Dream, Vision, Groups

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• Kitsch lends itself to a definition in terms of a systematic attempt to fly from daily reality: in time and in space.

  Matei Calinescu

  Space, Definitions, Systematic

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• Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality, but the patterns are not the reality they describe.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Intellectual, Quality, Patterns

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• Dismantling the ego, quieting the mind, isn't something you can actively undertake to do. It just happens on its own, when you consciously accept the moment you are in, when you don't fight the present reality with thoughts of how you'd like it to be otherwise, or what you're afraid the next moment might bring, when you don't resist with justification or regret or blame of self or other.

  Jan Frazier

  Regret, Fighting, Self

  Jan Frazier (2007). “When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening”, p.192, Weiser Books

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• The universe cannot show you anything which you've intentionally chosen to block from your reality.

  Steve Pavlina

  Block, Shows, Chosen

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• Many Sages have said, "Your world is a dream. You're living in an illusion." They're referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality. When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.

  Adyashanti

  Dream, Believe, Mind

  Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.8, Sounds True

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• For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.

  Carlos Castaneda

  World, Description, Knows

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• Ignoring platforms that have gained critical mass is a great way to look slow and out-of-touch. Do not cling to nostalgia. Do not put your principles above the reality of the market. Do not be a snob.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Principles, Looks, Way

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality

  Daido Moriyama

  Beautiful, Photography, Art

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• Success is an intoxicant, and intoxicated people seldom have a firm grasp on reality.

  Andy Stanley

  People, Firm, Intoxicated

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.22, Multnomah

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• We have this misconception about women in the military, that they don't wear make-up, but in reality, they're very feminine women. You can be a tough woman, and still be a very nurturing and emotional parent. It's just not always black and white like that.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Military, Black And White, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

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• Personally, I just want to work on stuff that challenges me, that excites me, and that I think is original. You want to do something that does to other people what films do to you. It's the most wonderful thing in the world when you can lose yourself from reality and go into a story, and believe it and go on that journey with people, and you have to work that will somehow do that. It won't always, but hopefully sometimes.

  Harry Treadaway

  Believe, Journey, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• In real science a hypothesis can never be proved true...A science which confines itself to correlating phenomena can never learn anything about the reality underlying the phenomena, while a science which goes further than this and introduces hypotheses about reality, can never acquire certain knowledge of a positive kind about reality; in whatever way we proceed, this is forever denied us.

  James Jeans

  Real, Forever, Way

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• Virtually all bad ideas come from universities, bad ideas that only survive when insulated from reality.

  Dick Armey

  Ideas, University, Bad Ideas

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• Like medieval theologians we had a philosophy that explained everything to us in advance, and everything that did not fit could be readily identified as a fraud or a lie or an illusion... The perniciousness of the anti-Communist ideology of the Truman Doctrine arises not from any patent falsehood but from its distortion and simplification of reality, from its universalization and its elevation to the status of a revealed truth.

  J. William Fulbright

  Lying, Philosophy, Patents

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• In the West nowadays, it's very common to talk about the Judeo- Christian tradition. It's a common term. The term is relatively modern but the reality is an old one. One could with equal justification talk about a Judeo-Islamic tradition or a Christian-Islamic tradition. These three religions are interlinked in many signification ways, which marks them off from the rest of the world. And I think there is a growing awareness of this among Christians and among Jews, and even to some extent to some Muslims. That's happening for obvious reasons.

  Bernard Lewis

  Christian, Thinking, World

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• If reality is not what you want it to be, change it. You should not accept anything blindly, not death, not immortality.

  Hannu Rajaniemi

  Want, Immortality, Accepting

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