Quotes About Reality

We like to believe we can break strategy down to Five Forces or Seven Ss. But you can't. Strategy is extraordinarily emotional and demanding.

Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.

This is important. Money on its most basic level is a hard fact - you either have it or you don't. But on it's emotional level it is purely a fiction. It becomes what you let it become.

I did 'The Grey,' and it was very intense and emotional because we're in the wilderness, and it was always 30 degrees. You kind of lose your sense of reality in the fact that you're filming a movie.

I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality.

My standup persona is like I'll heighten things, but I'm observing the world as it is in sort of a heightened emotional state.

Another reality is a whisper away.

Stop thinking like Alice in Wonderland, Celia told herself sternly. You're a grown-up, it's no use shutting your eyes, wishing things would happen

Climate change is for real. We have just a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not a moment to lose.

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

Abnormal radiation exposure and oxygen starvation teaches you that reality is just a perception that is derived from your immediate environmental conditions.

Reality has changed, and we changed with it. However, I never changed sides. I have always been on the side of justice, democracy and social equality.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

Crowns and thrones are all bodies which rise and perish and leave the world as it is.

Belief is the mother of reality. Excellence is a state of mind.

The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

Mind is indeed the Builder . . . what is held in the act of mental vision becomes a reality in the material experience. We are gradually builded to that image created within our own mental being.

Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.