Reality Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Passive Resistance, Violence

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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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• You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.

  Adyashanti

  Struggle, Loses, Disagree

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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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• An accurate, insightful view of current reality is as important as a clear vision.

  Peter Senge

  Views, Vision, Insightful

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.115, Random House

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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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• The strength of the script, for me, was that you're really left, right till the end, to know what's happening. This seemingly perfect, happy, kooky real relationship slowly turns into something horrifying, but you get there through a filter of reality with all of it.

  Harry Treadaway

  Real, Perfect, Filters

  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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• The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land, or money.

  Gautama Buddha

  Son, Land, Doe

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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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• Reality is only just a word.

  Harry Chapin

  Song: Corey's Coming, 1976

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• Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which is always inspired by reality. With more involvement and regularity, I learned to push each study in a certain direction. Little by little the notion that painting is a means of expression asserted itself, and that one can express the same thing in several ways. Exactitude is not truth, Delacroix liked to say.

  Henri Matisse

  Dream, Art, Mean

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, Univ of California Press

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• Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

  Margaret Atwood

  Optimistic, Mean, Optimism

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Jul 21, 2016

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• Art is meant to strike us with Reality, not allow us to hide from it.

  Elmer Rice

  Art, Strikes, Art Is

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• Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.

  Herman E. Daly

  Growth, Hammers, Unyielding

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• I witness the reality and divinity of our Eternal Father, of His Only Begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Ghost. I testify that our Father hears and answers our prayers. May each of us strive with greater resolve to ask in faith and thereby make our prayers truly meaningful.

  David A. Bednar

  Meaningful, Jesus, Prayer

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• Every time we choose action over ease or labor over rest, we develop an increasing level of self-worth, self-respect and self-confidence. In the final analysis, it is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives. It is activity that converts human dreams into human reality, and that conversion from idea into actuality gives us a personal value that can come from no other source.

  Jim Rohn

  Dream, Self Confidence, Self Worth

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• The primordial fire of reality is going to burn through the hull of our little ego spaceship, and scatter us like stars.

  Reginald Ray

  Stars, Fire, Ego

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