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Quotes About Reality

To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.
~ David Foster Wallace
We're no longer dealing in the world of the real in a truthful way. We're interacting with each other in shiny homepages. I don't think that makes for honest communication.
~ Joshua Ferris
Real communication is not possible. That is why my message, your perception and your expression shall never be the same.
~ Harshit Walia
Don't you get it?' said Max. 'You're not praying, you're just... wishing. And wishes don't come true.
~ Peter Clines, Ex-Communication
[I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Are you living in a computer simulation?
~ Nick Bostrom
By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.
~ Ray Kurzweil
The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.
~ Timothy Leary
Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.
~ Peter Jackson
Computers aren't intelligent, they only think they are.
~ Emo Philips
Computers don't seem real to me because there's a sheet of glass between you and whatever is happening.
~ Stanley Donwood
I'm not a computer girl.
~ Sandy Duncan
Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories have these characteristics too.
~ Elizabeth Loftus
Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.
~ Bobby Fischer
Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality
~ Matthieu Ricard
Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.
~ Thaddeus Golas
I have so much confidence in the reality of Jesus that I feel no pressure to try to make people act or be a certain way. I'm banking everything on the fact that God actually changes people.
~ Erwin McManus
Wake-up! Think for yourself, be yourself and return to what is real.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
~ Oswald Chambers
Reality bites. Micron underlines that despite the market run-up recently, there's still no confidence about growth and earnings.
~ Unknown
Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.
~ Neil Peart
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I do not wish to travel around the world. I already have the world trying to travel around me.
~ Lionel Suggs
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
~ Anthony Liccione