Quotes About Reality

Her bir ?eyin varl???n? sürdürmede kulland??? çaba, esas?nda o ?eyin bizatihi özünden ba?ka bir ?ey de?ildir.

How difficult it is to see even what's in front of one's eyes. All we possess is the present, and the present endlessly dissolves into the past." Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen

I shatter the objective universe around you—and all you can say is that there's an error in the formulation!" Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen".

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live

174) Intimidating Snape Harry was so scared of Alan Rickman because "he was so fantastic at what he did I was freaked" that he had to keep telling himself "it's only a film, it's only a film ... nothing's real".

The lake i had grown up on was protected by thousands of acres of private forests. It kept out the reality of a harsher world and surrounded me with fun and privilege

I had originally thought that a job at Starbucks might be below my abilities. But now i realized it might be beyond them. This job could be a areal challenge for me - mentally, emotionally, and physically.

Only after a person has their heart broken does the world appear as it truly is.

Life is my nightmare now, and paradoxically, my dreams have become escapes.

Did she herself even believe in God anymore? Why argue over a phantom? They were two fools arguing over lies.

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.

And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes.

Remember, no one cares what you want. Focus on delivering more than is expected every time and relieve yourself of the notion that anyone cares about your hopes and dreams. Find a pain point and solve it. It's that simple.

Anthropologists teach others to try to avoid the pitfalls of ethnocentrism by learning to understand a culture in terms of its own assumptions about reality. Western shamans can do a similar service with regard to cognicentrism. The anthropologists' lesson is called cultural relativism. What Western shamans can try to create, to some degree, is cognitive relativism.

you could also hear the other, some young soldier speaking in all bloody innocence, saying, 'All that's just a load, man. We're here to kill gooks. Period.' Which wasn't at all true of me. I was there to watch.

You don't have to be a seasoned tactician to realize that your ass is cold.

All the wrong questions have been asked and the correct answers are not true.

they cannot renege on the potential cost when the risk of default becomes a reality. Default, in this context, is … a legitimate, if unfortunate, part of the game. It is not consistent to benefit from a risk-taking premium and insist on full payment in all circumstances. The legal protection extended to bondholders by Judge Griesa goes against the very nature of risk-taking.

The same goes for such nonsense sentences as "Time is a concept", "Infinity is a concept", and "God is a concept". Those are all category errors.

I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.

We, who should know better, reinforce every patient's desire to hide from the reality of his own mortality.

I think I am a realist. The reality is that things change; the question is, how will I perceive that change, and am I willing to change along with it? It may seem hard to believe, but it's catastrophe that offers the most promise for an even richer life.

No one can be told who they are. It is an experience, a shift in reality, a change in consciousness.