Reality Quotes
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One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.
Francis Bacon -
Startup stories are always smoother in the telling than they are in reality. A startup is not one, but a series of 'Aha!' moments, and some which seem like 'Aha!' moments but turn out not to be.
Anthony Goldbloom
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However, most of my part, I play a pediatrician, and most of my role had to do with being in another place, staying at the hospital and trying to save kids and stay until people could come. So, it was more based on reality.
Sela Ward -
Not exclusively, but the bulk of our local economy should be covered by local currencies, which is more efficient than having global currencies which lose connection with reality in the markets, shops and communities of the people.
David Korten -
Understanding has very specific component parts. These component parts are affinity, reality and communication.
L. Ron Hubbard -
The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.
Emile Zola -
Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.
Lorene Scafaria -
I am fine because somebody's opinion can't become my reality.
Disha Patani
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When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply and submerge me in another reality. So when a novel makes me roar with laughter, it's always a delightful surprise.
Maria Semple -
The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within... Nothing is more essential to us.
Marilynne Robinson -
The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.
Max Jacob -
Luxury is experiencing reality.
Chogyam Trungpa -
If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?
B. J. Novak -
I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.
Mary Ellen Mark
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I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I'm happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it.
Jimmy Stewart -
Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.
Bill Maher -
What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.
Max Jacob -
If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality.
David Friedrich Strauss -
It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.
Andrzej Wajda -
Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches, 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching.
J. I. Packer
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It would be right to state that, with the successful flight of the XR-4 in the summer of 1942, the helicopter became a reality in the United States.
Igor Sikorsky -
Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.
Pablo Picasso -
Most actors I know come from a screwed up background, so it makes sense that if you can walk on to a space and recreate your reality, then that's the place that will become very dear.
Peter Mullan -
Most grain foods, whether we're talking about quinoa, amaranth, the very popular grains of the day - the reality is they still are associated with a carbohydrate surge.
David Perlmutter