Quotes About Reality

If there's one thing I've learned in more than seven decades of life, it's that the world is a completely fucked-up place. You never know what's around the corner and it's often something unpleasant.

Tell a story often enough and it becomes the truth.

Perhaps nothing so accurately characterizes dysfunctional families as denial. The denial forces members to keep believing the myths and vital lies in spite of the facts, or to keep expecting that the same behaviors will have different outcomes. Dad's not an alcoholic because he never drinks in the morning, in spite of the fact that he's drunk every night.

The fantasy bond (really bondage) is the illusion that someone is there for them, someone who loves and protects them. The fantasy bond is like a mirage in the desert. Once set up, the denying fantasy bond functions automatically and unconsciously. Years later, when reality is no longer life-threatening, the fantasy bond remains. This explains why abandoned (abused) children are described as having a compulsion to protect their parents.

committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality.

The tremendous effectiveness of change history was discovered by paying attention to how people can distort their internally generated experience and then act on the distortion, forgetting that they created it in the first place.

The person feels bad and acts upon that feeling as if it were really a fact.

We're aware of the scale of the planet, so we don't accept that our own circumscribed horizons constitute reality. Much more real is what's relayed to us by the TV.

we've always predicated our quotations on the assumption that life expectancy in the United States would continue to rise. But during the past three years it has in fact started to go down.

We are all, even the best of us, egoists and self-deceivers, and without a little comfortable make-believe to clothe us we should freeze in the outer winds.

We are all, even the best of us, egotists and self-deceivers, and without a little comfortable make-believe to clothe us we should freeze in the outer winds.

There are heroes, and there are the rest of us. There comes a time when you just let go the ghost of the better person you might have been.

A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large extent, by your habits.

Disappointment comes when reality falls short of our expectations. But nothing falls short of God's expectations because He knows everything.

Wishing for things to change wouldn't make them change. Hoping for improvements wouldn't bring them.

El éxito puede conseguir distorsionar nuestra visión de la realidad. Puede hacernos creer que somos mejores de lo que realmente somos. Puede seducirnos a creer que no hay mucho más que aprender. Puede convencernos de que ya no deberíamos esperar afrontar y vencer el fracaso. Estos conceptos son peligrosos para cualquiera que quiera seguir mejorando.

know this: though not everything that we face can be changed, nothing can be changed until we face it.

You must retain faith that you will prevail in the end and you must also confront the most brutal facts of your current reality.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

As a leader, you don't earn any points for failing in a noble cause. You don't get credit for being right as you bring the organization to a halt. Your success is measured by your ability to actually take the people where they need to go. But you can do that only if the people first buy into you as a leader. That's the reality of the Law of Buy-In.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly just because you're a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to charge you because you're a vegetarian

GIVE UP ON THE NOTION OF EVER ARRIVING AT PERFECTION.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality." That can happen only when the leader is willing to hear and face the truth.

The dream they dream is beautiful. A dream as bold as your own, or bolder. You want to explore and colonize the universe; they wish to extend the lifespan of the universe beyond all boundaries, to remake its laws, and shape reality to banish entropy, decay, and death forever. I'd like to believe in that dream whether it's true or not.