Quotes About Reality

The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false.

I do use reality because I want my work to feel real, I want it to feel heartfelt. I don't want to make it up and have it sound corny or unrelatable.

I get so tired of people saying, 'Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that', and I'm like, 'Well no, fantasy is reality', that's what Lewis Carroll showed in his work.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

The reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in.

My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge.

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that

A lot of people who work in computers think that the world is like them.

Fact is only what you believe and fact and fiction work as a team.

It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins.

The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.

I never take drugs. I took ecstasy when I was in Ibiza once, but it didn't work for me. I think I was already on ecstasy when I was born.

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.

I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!

I feel good about the work I do on Survivor and am proud of my contribution.

No matter how big the glam squad, or how dramatic the dress, sometimes things just don't work out.

Some people say I'm a dreamer, others say, 'If you fall asleep at work again we're going to have to let you go'.