Quotes About Reality

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.

You know, sometimes there's a difference between what is actually the truth and what you perceive to be the truth through your social conditioning.

What I perceive in science fiction is that it's more about how everything looks than what's going on, which I think is just difficult if you're an action character. I think they are about character, not about what it looks like.

Although the events we appear to perceive in dreams are illusory, our feelings in response to dream content are real. Indeed, most of the events we experience in dreams are real; when we experience feelings, say, anxiety or ecstasy, in dreams, we really do feel anxious or ecstatic at the time.

People don't even realize the power the mind has over the body in the way you perceive things. Change your thoughts, change your reality. Words are powerful - every thought and every word we think has an effect on the body.

When we become immobilized by our own inability to deal directly with what is a commonly perceived truth and reality, we are in trouble as a nation.

I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America.

I certainly feel injustice. I'm no foreigner to that, whether it's real or perceived.

I feel like a lot of people think of Hollywood as being fake, but it's only perceived that way because it takes 10 people to make someone look the way that they do. In reality, they're there because they are doing what they're passionate about.

Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is.

What constitutes - where are we when we sleep? What is our sense of reality at that moment? It's, you know, science now suggests to us that what has been perceived as matter for a long time is, in fact, energy.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

I play into the perception of me, but it's not really me.

Perception is not always reality.

Everyone seems to have this perception that I'm injury-prone or I've had a lot of injuries, and that's not the case at all.

What I had to learn was, that I'm only responsible for my perception of things. The world's not out to get you. That's not the way it works.

This perception that we can be stars without any work and just appear is rubbish.

When your mother dies in your arms, your perception of life changes. I think the whole thing is just a fleeting illusion.

What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

Those of us who make movies play with perception and reality; those who watch our films are responsible for making sense of it.

There's been a gap between perception and reality, the perception being that California is on the cutting edge of gun safety legislation when, in fact, there are a number of areas where we have fallen behind.

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

The problem is that perception is reality.