Quotes About Reality

Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.

If you liked school, you're gonnnnna lovvvvve work!

Remember, half the people you know are below average.

Our work is to present things that are as they are.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert.

There is a work that my father had started, a dream he had dreamt. I come to you today saying...allow me to turn that dream into reality

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.

The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with it.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality.

Part of the heartache of all missionary work is the bright promising convert who turns out to be a mere puffball, crumbling like a macaroon under the least pressure.

If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.

Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.

Reality is broken and we need to make it work more like a game.

All I can say about the work I try to do, is that the aesthetic is in reality itself.

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

Effort and hard work construct the bridge that connects your dreams to reality.

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

What I'm above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality. If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that's it really: I'm taking the pith out of reality.

You can't come out of drama school and think, 'It's all going to be amazing.' You have to expect to work in a bar for at least five years and be a waitress for maybe two!

I deal in facts, not forecasting the future. That's crystal ball stuff. That doesn't work.

Peace is not a dream; it is hard work, and there is nothing naive, glamorous or simplistic about it.