Reality Quotes - Page 34

• The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.

  Joseph Conrad

  Art, Lying, Profound

  14 Copy quote

• 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

  9 Copy quote

• In order to experience the Ultimate Reality you have to be out of your mind.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Order, Mind, Ultimate

  5 Copy quote

• You have to remember that writing those sorta songs is not reality, it's more like trance, dream, y'know, like dreamwork. The mythical thing can enter the creating but there's the mythical place and the real place. And there's both...I get it between waking and sleeping. Or, when I'm doing something else. I don't sit down and think I'm gonna write about subject X or subject Y. I could be doing something and an impression comes in from outside and the song emerges out of that. It's never thought about or contrived.

  Van Morrison

  Dream, Song, Real

  4 Copy quote

• A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process.

  Frank Herbert

  Coffee, Moving, Men

  "Dune (40th Anniversary Edition)". Book by Frank Herbert, Penguin, p. 30, August 2, 2005.

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• ... I still wish to contend that some metaphors enable us to see aspects of reality that the metaphor's production helps to constitute. But that is no longer surprising if one believes that the world is necessarily a world under a certain description - or a world seen from a certain perspective.

  Max Black

  Believe, Perspective, Wish

  Max Black (1990). “Perplexities: Rational Choice, the Prisoner's Dilemma, Metaphor, Poetic Ambiguity, and Other Puzzles”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you want to know the reality of life, then you should travel. At first travel your country, after that start travelling the world. Travel to know your surroundings so that we can say that you are an aware person. Nature, people and culture are calling you, so travel.

  Imran Khan

  Country, People, Culture

  18 Copy quote

• Moving swiftly between different arenas like politics, architecture or commercial design is what I would consider defintive of my generation. I am looking at reality and playing fast and loose with it.

  Sarah Morris

  Moving, Design, Different

  6 Copy quote

• All creative work has its greatest reality while it is still in a man's mind, before he begins to execute it.

  John Prebble

  Men, Creative, Mind

  John Prebble (1956). “Disaster at Dundee”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• One advantage of the discovery of the Photographic Art will be, that it will enable us to introduce into our pictures a multitude of minute details which add to the truth and reality of the representation, but which no artist would take the trouble to faithfully copy from nature.

  Henry Fox Talbot

  Art, Discovery, Details

  William Henry Fox Talbot (1992). “Henry Fox Talbot: Selected Texts and Bibliography”

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• Dali likes me taking his picture because he is interested in pictures that do not simply reproduce reality. Even in photos he prefers to appear outside reality .That is surrealistic!

  Philippe Halsman

  Likes

  26 Copy quote

• The more tightly you cling to your faith, the looser your grip is on reality.

  David Alan Harvey

  4 Copy quote

• Science teaches you to open your eyes and appreciate the reality around you. Religion teaches you to close your eyes and cling to the fantasy within you.

  David Alan Harvey

  Eye, Appreciate, Fantasy

  9 Copy quote

• Speculators are obsessed with predicting: guessing the direction of stock prices. Every morning on cable television, every afternoon on the stock market report, every weekend in Barron's, every week in dozens of market newsletters, and whenever business people get together. In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a purely speculative undertaking.

  Seth Klarman

  Morning, Weekend, People

  14 Copy quote

• It is only by remembering that 'Another lives in me' that we can die daily to that old, false, usurping self, and that we can continue to be drawn further in and higher up into the life of God. To 'practice the presence' is to continually call to mind this great reality.

  Leanne Payne

  Self, Practice, Mind

  18 Copy quote

• At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.

  Tony Robbins

  Focus, Moments, Moments In Time

  10 Copy quote

• Reality, unlike perception, cannot be changed by propaganda.

  Charles Hugh Smith

  Perception, Propaganda, Changed

  5 Copy quote

• The problems of the global economy are not based in perception, but in the reality of prices, balance sheets and income statements, vast concentrations of wealth and power, precarious systemic imbalances, ruthless exploitation, and command economies mismanaged by Central State/Bank policy and manipulation.

  Charles Hugh Smith

  Concentration Of Wealth, Perception, Balance

  "The 'Uncredible' Dog And Pony Show: Merkel And Sarkozy" by Charles Hugh Smith, www.businessinsider.com. October 10, 201.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The marketplace is a wondrous institution. It harnesses the self-interest of each of us and puts it to work for the benefit of all. And it does so without intruding upon our desires, our privacy, or our freedom. It is regulation by reality, not by coercion.

  Harry Browne

  Self, Desire, Doe

  15 Copy quote

• When I look at the 'Rocky Balboa' film when I played the undisputed heavyweight champion, I feel like art is going to imitate life. I played the champ in a movie and I'm going to become the champ in reality.

  Antonio Tarver

  Art, Champion, Heavyweights

  4 Copy quote

• The nations, and the sects, of the Roman world, admitted with equal credulity, and similar abhorrence, the reality of that infernal art [witchcraft], which was able to control the eternal order of the planets, and the voluntary operations of the human mind. . . . They believed, with the wildest inconsistency, that this preternatural dominion of the air, of earth, and of hell, was exercised, from the vilest motives of malice or gain, by some wrinkled hags and itinerant sorcerers, who passed their obscure lives in penury and contempt.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, Air, Order

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.253

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most of us avoid telling the truth because it's uncomfortable. We're afraid of the consequences-making others feel uncomfortable, hurting their feelings or risking their anger. And yet, when we don't tell the truth, and others don't tell us the truth, we can't deal with matters from a basis in reality.

  Jack Canfield

  Hurt, Feelings, Matter

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Dec 02, 2013

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view. The hard part is that the investor must measure himself not by his own perceptions of his performance, but by the objective measure of the market. The market has its own reality. In an immediate emotional sense the market is always right so if you take a variant point of view you will always be bombarded for some time by conventional wisdom as expressed by the market.

  Michael Steinhardt

  Emotional, Views, Years

  13 Copy quote

• There's really educated women out there who are feminists and they have read up on their stuff. They can talk to me right now, and school me on some things I've never known, and that's amazing, you are a scholar, you are wise, you are educated. But the unfortunate thing is also the reality, and the fact is, millions of people might not even know who these educated feminists are - hundreds will, thousands maybe.

  Lizzo

  Wise, School, Unfortunate Things

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I never thought I would have an opportunity to act in the United States, and continue to expand my career outside of Europe. To be honest, my reality is bigger than I would have ever dared to dream.

  Diane Kruger

  Dream, Opportunity, Europe

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source