Reality Quotes
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It's not a hat you wear pleasantly, but it's reality.
J. M. Roberts
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A pragmatist is concerned with results, not reality.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.
Lewis B. Smedes
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Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.
David Walliams
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Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like.
John Polkinghorne
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Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph.
Vincent Van Gogh
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One of the most important tasks is to broaden the energy supply ... Energy determines today international security and social as well as economic development in many respects. In reality the wellbeing of millions of people is directly dependent in energy security.
Vladimir Putin
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Reality is shaped by the forces that destroy it.
D. Harlan Wilson
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The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.
L. Ron Hubbard
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For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought.
Bayazid Bastami
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I work in fantasy all day, so when I go home, I want to touch reality.
Johnny Galecki
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Social media is incredible: it creates a community that I'm really proud to be a part of, but it also creates illusions and a false reality, and it's difficult to grow up with that.
Ella Woodward
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The fact that these highly abstract notions coalesce in such refined harmony is absolutely mind-boggling. It points to something rich and mysterious lurking beneath the surface, as if the curtain had been lifted and we caught glimpses of the reality that had been carefully hidden from us. These are the wonders of modern math, and of the modern world.
Edward Frenkel
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Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation--overcrowding--reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. If you feel overcrowded when you're not, what does that mean? Maybe that you're afraid of human contact--of being close to people, of being touched.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I look for a sense of reality with everything I did. I didn't work in a studio, I didn't light anything. I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn't have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me and £5 worth of film in my pocket or maybe it was only £2 in those days.
Eve Arnold
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A company's commitment to searching out potential blockbusters and then investing in marketing to convert potential to reality attracts and retains top scientists and creatives.
John Quelch
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The reality is that I'm making better wine than I thought I would. The whole process is simple but beautiful.
Brian Schmidt
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Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
Thomas Aquinas
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I manifested in a dreamlike way to dreamlike beings and gave a dreamlike Dharma, but in reality I never taught and never actually came.
Gautama Buddha
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Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatistI have so carefully posited 'reality' ab initio, and why throughout my whole discussion, I remain an epistemologist realist.
William James
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In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built.
Emilio Ambasz
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It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
Virginia Woolf
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The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble them into a meaningful pattern.
Diane Ackerman
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I love reality TV and everything, and it's something that I truly love to do, and I love the outcome of it; it's like my art. I consider my reality show as my art piece, and it's like a sculpture that I built; it's my baby.
Kendra Wilkinson