Paul Watzlawick Quotes
The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
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One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.
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I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.
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Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.
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The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
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It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.
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The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.
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I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.
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Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
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You think about the artists I look at as icons, and you assume they were instantly embraced. That's usually not the case. In reality, they had to overcome a lot of noes to get where they wanted to be.
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In a lot of action films, a lot of guys are driving muscle cars or vintage cars, whereas in reality, a lot of getaway drivers would actually choose, like, commuter cars and find a way to blend into freeway traffic as quickly as possible.
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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
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If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.
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Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.
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What's great about this hotel [Sheraton Universal Hotel in Universal City, CA] is that I stayed here for a month when I was competing on the Oprah reality show. So it's like coming home.
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The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. ... [Whereas] the physicist's reality, whatever it may be, has few or none of the attributes which common sense ascribes instinctively to reality. A chair may be a collection of whirling electrons.
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I really like my legs because I've worked hard for them. With soccer, that's the one thing you're working all the time.
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But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.
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I used to have an online-shopping problem.
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The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.
