Reality Quotes

• I think a poet's focus is not quite what a prose writer's is, it's not entirely on the world outside. It's fixed on the area where the inside meets the outside, where the poet's sensibility meets the weather, meets the street, meets other people... that shadow land between self and reality.

  

  Mark Strand
  • People
  • World
  • Focus

• Creation's gold mine is in you. The key is deliberate intention. Whatever your dream may be at this moment, identify it. If you cannot define your desire, it can never become a reality.

  

  Mary Manin Morrissey
  • May
  • Dream
  • Desire

• Powerful people are always in charge. You have to acknowledge that and deal with it as a reality. They're not devils. They're not monsters. They're human beings, like us, that have their share of insecurities and fears. You have to contemplate that as you go through life.

  

  John Lithgow
  • People
  • Life
  • Powerful

• There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing

  

  William James
  • Former
  • Latter
  • Static

• I hear, 'But why do poor people make such bad decisions?' But actually, their decision-making can be far more complex than that of the better-off in many ways. They're not financially illiterate: they're constantly weighing up choices based on the reality of poverty. Somehow the international development community has resisted accepting this.

  

  Ann Cotton
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • Reality
  • Present

• Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fall

• What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Casual
  • Scrap
  • Daffodil

• Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

  

  John Gardner
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Mining

• Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new patterns; a mixture of memories, experiences, free fancies, incongruities and improvisations.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Time
  • Free
  • Imagination

• If we're trying to build a world-class News Feed and a world-class messaging product and a world-class search product and a world-class ad system, and invent virtual reality and build drones, I can't write every line of code. I can't write any lines of code.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • World
  • Trying
  • Search

• Reality makes no sense at all, except possibly from God's point of view

  

  Lori Singer
  • God
  • Views
  • Point Of View

• The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.

  

  Martin Parr
  • Different
  • Reality

• Contrary to the fantasies of the fundamentalists, there was no deathbed conversion, no last minute refuge taken in a comforting vision of a heaven or an afterlife. For Carl, what mattered most was what was true, not merely what would make us feel better. Even at this moment when anyone would be forgiven for turning away from the reality of our situation, Carl was unflinching. As we looked deeply into each other's eyes, it was with a shared conviction that our wondrous life together was ending forever.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Life
  • Together
  • True

• Dreams are the seedlings of reality.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Reality
  • Dreams
  • Seedlings

• We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Reality
  • Earth
  • Recognize

• In an encounter with divine reality, we do not hear a voice but acquire a voice, and the voice we acquire is our own.

  

  James P. Carse
  • Reality

• Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Today
  • Future
  • Energy

• The reality is that you think you're going to have all this time out here, to do all this stuff, and the truth of the matter is, you just don't. If we're on the road, and we stay in the city we're in, I'm going to try to get up in the morning and get a workout in.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Up
  • Time
  • Truth

• I've seen a lot of my friends go through different reality shows, and they just get caught up in a lot of stagnant positions, unfortunately.

  

  Will Champlin
  • Friends
  • Shows
  • Unfortunately

• Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

  

  William James
  • Truth
  • Mean
  • Dictionary

• I don't like Hollywood. I don't like what it represents. I think that Hollywood is great if you're an actor, actress, established. But for reality people or what people perceive as reality, it's tough. People are constantly discrediting everything you put on camera.

  

  Brody Jenner
  • People
  • Great
  • Reality

• Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

  

  Jonas Salk
  • Hope
  • Imagination
  • Courage

• I am the angel of reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Reality
  • Door
  • Angel

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