Quotes About Reality

Anyone who tells you they know the future is telling you the most grotesque lie, because none of us do.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.

Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present - not where we wish we were, or where we wish others to think we are, but where we are in fact.

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.

There's no present, there's no future, I don't even know about the past.

Past and future are two aspects of the same coin. The name of the coin is mind.

To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.

It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real...

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present

One unanswered question is whether a Euro-Islam that combines Islam with democracy will be possible in the future. We mustn't confuse desire with reality.

To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,And empty shadow of what is to be;Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,And ends but only when our being ends.

I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a future than the futures that we're being sold on the screen and on television.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

For you and me today is all we have tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

Universe is not a calm lake and therefore when you watch a calm lake you get a deceptive idea about the universe and you get a wrong perception of future!

It isn't very logical to live my life on goundless supposition. I have to assume the truth of the moment is the truth of the future. - Leah

The goal is not to simulate reality right now by going crazy. The goal is to prepare for reality by going slowly

Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality.

I wasn't saying that in a sense that I didn't plan on scoring any goals. This won't happen again. It would be nice if it did, but it's reality.

I'd say to myself: "This is my dream, this is my wish." Because a wish is more than a wish. It is a goal. It is something your conscious and subconscious can help make reality.

Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results.

All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.

Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.