Reality Quotes - Page 9

• Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.

  Byron Katie

  Appreciation, Fun, Positivity

  "Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life". Book by Byron Katie, 2002.

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• Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Real, World

  Hajo Düchting, Wassily Kandinsky (1993). “Wassily Kandinsky, 1866-1944: A Revolution in Painting”, Taschen

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• External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system.

  Jaron Lanier

  Nervous, Nervous System

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• I realized that it's insane to oppose it. When I argue with reality, I lose-but only 100% of the time. How do I know that the wind should blow? It's blowing!

  Byron Katie

  Time, Blow, Winning

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• Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Adjusting, Matter

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• Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted.

  Sigfried Giedion

  Artist, Representation, Abstraction

  Sigfried Giedion (1962). “The Eternal Present: The beginnings of art”, [New York

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• Reality is not always probable, or likely.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Life, Probable Cause, Fiction And Reality

  "Worldwide Laws of Life : 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles". Book by John Templeton, 1998.

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• You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open.

  Rumi

  Doors, Wings, Shoulders

  "The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 18: "The Three Fish", p. 200, 1995.

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• My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Fun, Laughter, Real

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

  Bruce Lee

  Fighting, Greatness, Punching

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• The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

  George Santayana

  Imagination, Degrees, Dignity

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2015). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four”, p.70, MIT Press

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• The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Real, Hype, Giving

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• What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Real, Science, Thinking

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• You just have to realize that Jet Li is a movie star. He's great at what he does, but if he stepped into our world he wouldn't last long.

  Chuck Liddell

  Movie, Stars, Fighting

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• You cut a hole in the building and people can look inside and see the way other people really lived.. it's making space without building it

  Gordon Matta-Clark

  Life, Cutting, Space

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• Reality' is a movie generated by our brains. Because we don't realize this, we are far too confident that the stuff appearing in the movie is actually 'out there' in the world when, in fact, it's not.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Brain, World, Stuff

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• Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

  Alexis Carrel

  Perception, Intuition, Instinct

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• Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Doe, Conformity, Ideals

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• I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

  Garrison Keillor

  Fake People, Believe, Eye

  "Precision Shooting : The Trapshooter's Bible‎". Book by James Russell, 1998.

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• There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

  Douglas Everett

  Motivational, Dream, Persistence

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• Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

  Ayn Rand

  Work, Mean, Men

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2260, Penguin

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• Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

  John Ruskin

  Positive, Art, Fools Day

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• What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

  Wallace Stevens

  Eye, Meditation, May

  Wallace Stevens, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery (1989). “Sur Plusieurs Beaux Sujects: Wallace Stevens' Commonplace Book”, p.12, Stanford University Press

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• The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

  Wallace Stevens

  Art, Real, Play

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• The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

  Daniel Webster

  Society, World, Appearance

  Daniel Webster, Edwin David Sanborn (1857). “The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster”, p.146, Little, Brown

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