Yann Martel Quotes

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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• In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Reality
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• I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Guy
  • Play
  • Spiritual

• He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • True
  • Imagination

• One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Imagination
  • Young
  • Facts

• 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

• To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • Reality
  • Vision

• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Reality
  • Actor
  • Begin

• I've had hundreds of requests from journalists all over the world asking me to speak about Leicester, which is astonishing. It's captured the imagination.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Speak

• I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Up
  • Day
  • Play

• It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • People
  • Children
  • True

• Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Art
  • Technology
  • Imagination

• 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.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Family
  • Reality
  • Difference

• The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an evening with. I never see them as bad people.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • People
  • Bad
  • Play

• The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • People
  • World
  • Mind

• Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Real
  • Why
  • Truth

• The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • Time
  • Play
  • Wanted

• It's all about having fun. Play hard and fair, don't hurt anybody. Feel good about what you're doing and how you're doing it.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Play

• I am not afraid of beauty, unlike most artists today. The pollen, the milk, the beeswax, they have a beauty that is incredible, that is beyond the imagination, something which you cannot believe is a reality-and it is the most real. I could not make it myself, I could not create it myself, but I can participate in it. Trying to create it yourself is only a tragedy, participating in it is a big chance.

  

  Wolfgang Laib
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Trying

• Tears unnumbered ye shall shed.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Tears
  • Shed

• I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Politics
  • Debate

• We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean.

  

  Thomas Bulfinch
  • People
  • Country
  • Real

• 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.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Reality
  • Play
  • Imagination