Reality Quotes - Page 38

• He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.

  Henry Fielding

  Cold, Violent, Consumption

  On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, a Practiser in Physic

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• If you set your bar at 'amazing' it's awfully difficult to start. Your first paragraph, sketch, formula, sample or concept isn't going to be amazing. Your tenth one might not be either. Confronted with the gap between your vision of perfect and the reality of what you've created, the easiest path is no path. Shrug. Admit defeat. Hit delete. One more reason to follow someone else and wait for instructions. Of course, the only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing. But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you are.

  Seth Godin

  Running, Perfect, Waiting

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• Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.

  Jules Verne

  One Day, Made, Capable

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• It was my misfortune-or salvation-to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Conscious, Salvation, Misperception

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.41, Vintage

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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 me, it's just a normal artistic endeavour to explore the dark side. Certainly, I'm not alone in it. Artists generally don't like to accept the version of reality that society and culture hand them. They want to know what's really going on. So you're always looking in the ceilings, under the floorboards and behind the walls, trying to find the mechanisms, the structures, and the truth. I find that often leads you into some dark places.

  David Cronenberg

  Wall, Dark, Artist

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• There comes a moment... When imagination gives out and Reality leaps forth. It is frightful!

  August Strindberg

  Giving, Imagination, Moments

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• The reality is that whatever you are looking for is, at the same time, looking for you. It all starts with believing before seeing.

  John Frederick Demartini

  Believe, Seeing

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• There is knowledge of God and the spiritual nature of man, as well as other types of reality..., that are not reducible to the world dealt with by the so-called "natural" sciences. The idea that knowledge - and, of course, reality - is limited to that world is the single most destructive idea on the stage of life today.

  Dallas Willard

  Spiritual, Men, Ideas

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• I started working at Bravo in 2005, when I was offered a job by Lauren Zalaznick, the network's chairman. She encouraged me to start a blog. I wrote behind-the-scenes gossip about 'Battle of the Network Reality Stars,' the first show I took on as head of current programming.

  Andy Cohen

  Jobs, Stars, Gossip

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• This world can seem marvellously convincing until death collapses the illusion and evicts us from our hiding place. What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  World, Clue, Illusion

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• What the philosophers have to say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which reads Pressing Done Here. If you brought your clothes in to be pressed, you would be fooled: for the sign is only for sale.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Clothes, Would Be, Done

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• When things have gone really wrong in my life, I've cried like a child. I have really, really cried. I cry it out. Two-three days I cry, and then I'm like, enough, time to deal with reality and figure a way out. This is the way I have dealt with everything.

  Bipasha Basu

  Children, Two, Enough Time

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• For the longest time, Indian women have been okay with being curvy. But I think the modern Indian woman needs to get toned. I don't endorse being thin. Anorexia and bulimia are a reality in India because everybody wants to be thin.

  Bipasha Basu

  Thinking, Anorexia, India

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• Vision with action makes a powerful reality.

  Ron Kaufman

  Powerful, Vision, Action

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• I need the reality of other people, work, to fulfill myself. Must never become a mere mother and housewife.

  Sylvia Plath

  Mother, People, Needs

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.329, Anchor

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• Honesty is making our words align with reality. Integrity is making reality align with our words.

  Michael Hyatt

  Honesty, Integrity, Our Words

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• The best leaders operate in four dimensions: vision, reality, ethics, and courage.

  Peter Koestenbaum

  Leader, Vision, Four

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• Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen that it works only, despite its pretensions, by taking the world largely for granted, we are not in a position to contrast all these appearances with an alternative reality. We cannot shed our ordinary responses, and if we could it would leave us with no means of conceiving a reality of any kind.

  Thomas Nagel

  Taken, Mean, Views

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• You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.

  Plato

  Mind, Vision, Study

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• Reality is the original Rorschach.

  Malaclypse the Younger

  Rorschach, Originals

  Malaclypse The Younger (2013). “Principia Discordia: The Magnum Opiate of, Malaclypse the Younger”, p.85, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The world of demons, fallen Angels, is very real - a fact we need to know. We have to face up to this terrible reality, so that we do not fall unsuspectingly into their hands and come under their tyranny.

  Basilea Schlink

  Real, Fall, Angel

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• Concepts are always frozen. Reality flows.

  Anthony de Mello

  Frozen, Flow, Concepts

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• The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist (our friends being friends only in the light of an agreeable folly which travels with us through life and to which we readily accommodate ourselves, but which at the bottom of our hearts we know to be no more reasonable than the delusion of the man who talks to the furniture because he believes that it is alive.).

  Marcel Proust

  Giving Up, Believe, Heart

  Marcel Proust (1970). “The past recaptured”, Random House (NY)

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• I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Girl, Book, Responsibility

  "Gabourey Sidibe, From 'Precious' To 'AfroPop'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 31, 2013.

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