Nevill Drury Quotes

Reality is where your consciousness is located.

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• The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • History
  • Man
  • Reality

• The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Reality
  • Down
  • Normal

• The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Reality

• Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Reality
  • Make A Difference

• The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Love
  • Reality
  • Can

• When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Situation

• To act: that is what the writer would like to be able to do, above all. To act, rather than to bear witness. To write, imagine, and dream in such a way that his words and inventions and dreams will have an impact upon reality, will change people's minds and hearts, will prepare the way for a better world.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire and reality, and all the things that make you still care about the character, but you don't miss the commentary about them.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Reality

• I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Up
  • Time
  • Think

• I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Kind

• Ultimately, peace is just not about politics. It’s about attitudes; about a sense of empathy; about breaking down the divisions that we create for ourselves in our own minds and our own hearts that don’t exist in any objective reality, but that we carry with us generation after generation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Reality
  • Peace
  • Empathy

• I had the feeling that there was a dimension of reality that had not been dealt with in art: the dimension of ugliness.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Feeling

• The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Reality

• Conservatives spent an awful long time ignoring things: the birthers, the bigots, the xenophobes, the alternative-reality media. We had assumed that they were postcards from the fringe.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • Time
  • Long
  • Reality

• What we acknowledged as a nation during the one-and-a-half year trial of George Zimmerman is that the white majority's public imagination of black people was based on their fear of us, not the reality of who we are.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • Reality
  • Black

• A sad person who is so involved with his sadness that he mistakes it for reality will have a hard time seeing himself as anything but sad. For him, the sadness is not a feeling that he experiences - it is him.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Feeling

• There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • World
  • Reality
  • Single

• Entertainment is such a non-reality.

  

  Katharine McPhee
  • Reality

• You'll see that the strong, the affirmative, the positive voice in any of the plays I've written is that of a woman. My men are, well, not quite worthless, but they are certainly weak, and that reflects the reality I grew up with and what I think has in a sense shaped me.

  

  Athol Fugard
  • Up
  • Men
  • Reality

• As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces a morbid consciousness, quite unlike that normal consciousness accompanying right actions spontaneously done; and from a state of unstable equilibrium long maintained by effort, there is apt to be a fall towards stable equilibrium, in which the primitive nature reasserts itself. Retrogression rather than progression may hence result.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Long
  • Done
  • Action

• I was short until my senior year. It's just, like, your social status is so dependent on how quickly you hit puberty, basically.

  

  Phil Lord
  • Senior

• One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • People
  • Up
  • Famous

• Although meaningless in a tribal context, numbers and statistics assume mythic and magical qualities of infallibility in literate societies. (p. 114)

  

  Marshall McLuhan

• Reality is where your consciousness is located.

  

  Nevill Drury
  • Reality
  • Consciousness
  • Located