Quotes About Reality

Some people expect me to have changed overnight because of one big song.

Things that are like overnight success things don't last long, and that's not something I wanted.

Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.

Most people, they get overwhelmed by the religious stories, the nationalist stories, by the economic stories of the day, and take these stories to be the reality.

There is nothing on earth that complex

Surfing on the Internet is like sex everyone boasts about doing more than they actually do. But in the case of the Internet, it's a lot more.

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.

My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important.

If I learned one thing that day, it was that Peter Bartholomew, Arnulf, even Saint John the Divine had all been wrong. The world did not have to end with ten-horned beasts and dragons, angels and fantastical monsters. The prophets who foretold those things had succumbed to the extravagance of their imaginations, and it had played them false. Nothing on earth could be so terrible as men.

A too often forgotten truth is that you can live through actual events of history and completely miss the underlying reality of what's going. What history misses, the myth clearly expresses. The myth in the hands of a genius give us a clear picture of the inner import of life itself.

We believe that it is the job of each of us to step outside of ourselves, look beyond the shadows, and seek reality. If we hope to present an authentic self to the world, it is critical that we understand what is real and true about ourselves. So how do we begin to see our companies, our brands, our products, or ourselves as we really are ? For us, the best way to start is to stop watching shadows and start facing reality.

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.

Cool technology alone is not enough. If it were, we'd all be riding Segways and playing with robotic dogs.

Niets is veilig, alles is bruikbaar, de verdraaiingen in zijn memorie, de verzinsels uit zijn buurt, de roddels uit zijn krant, en op den duur lijkt alles maar gebeurd te zijn omdat het hem prima stof oplevert, zelfs de dood van zijn eigen moeder. Wie schrijft is een gier.

Happiness Equals Reality Minus Expectations

You all want to be the hero in the film who runs away in slo-mo from the villain's factory that he's just mined, throwing himself to the ground as it explodes. But the explosion's taking place already—it's always been taking place. You just didn't notice Ã¢â'¬Â¦

to be real--to become fluent, natural, to cut out the detour that sweeps us around what's fundamental to events, preventing us from touching their core: the detour that makes us all second-hand and second-rate.

Everything, as Peyman said, may be a fiction – but the Future is the biggest shaggy-dog story of all.

The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation.

From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close it can hit you as a bewildering surprise.

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.

most things I worry 'bout never happen anyway