Quotes About Reality

It was disappointing to be left out of the Premier League line-up, but it was a reality check to sit back and look on the bench.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

I always start with the assumption that everything that happens in the world is actually in the world. It sounds like an obvious thing to say, but it's a very powerful methodological premise.

Ultimately, the core premise of 'American Gods' is, 'What do you believe?' And how your beliefs can be manifested into reality.

Honestly, I have not done any preparation for 'Khatron ka Khiladi.'

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Imagining living in a universe without purpose may prepare us to better face reality head on. I cannot see that this is such a bad thing.

I went to drama school and it didn't prepare me for the ruthlessness of the industry at all, or the reality of it.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

'The X Factor' is great entertainment, but it doesn't prepare people for getting chewed up and spat out by the music industry.

It's never easy. You think you're ready but nothing prepares you. You're knocked for six. No matter how much you want a baby, having one's totally different.

It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one's own hand - that is what is necessary.

Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it.

As much as we might look for opportunities to keep Iraq together, we need to be prepared for the reality that it's not going to stay together.

It's the prerogative of the writer to rewrite the world into one he would like to exist.

I don't believe in objectivity. I observe the observer's paradox every moment I'm filming. Your presence is changing everything; there's no mistaking it. And you have a responsibility.

No one forgets the presence of the camera, no matter how long it's there.

Nothingness is not nothing at all, so it is physical, but not in the sense of constant presence. Nothingness is disturbing. It is there in a mind-independent sense; it is part of what is given.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

Other people's lives come at us without a backstory most of the time. The present is like that.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Live in the present moment. The past and future are nonexistent. Only the present can be grasped or, better, embraced.