Quotes About Reality

Men only give you what they give you...when they know they can't give you what you want.

Play the hand you have, Antonio, that's all anybody expects. And it's a pretty good hand." "I'm

Play the hand you have, Antonio, that's all anybody expects.

Nothing is real for me until I've read about it.

What has religion to do with facts? Nothing

When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.

In old magazines and newspapers we find a number of uncomfortably revealing things: the aged as young, the dead as living, forgotten people as celebrities, an array of our own barbarous and long-discarded fads and postures, and worst, visible only in this removed perspective, our own sickening pretensions to meaning and permanence.

Then came the Boris Vallejo virtual reality mindfucks.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Death was a lens that would reveal things as they really were: what was important would assume its true importance; what was unimportant would recede into the shadows.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual- become clairvoyant. We reach then into reality. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. It is in the nature of all people to have these experiences; but in our time and under the conditions of our lives, it is only a rare few who are able to continue in the experience and find expression for it.

Perception can make whatever picture the mind desires to see. Remember this. In this lies either Heaven or hell, as you elect. Manual

All your suffering is rooted in a single superstition which is that you believe you live in a world when in truth the world lives in you." Imagine for a moment that the world is not a physical place that is separate from you, but rather a projection of your state of mind. If this is so, then your mind really can move mountains. There are three dominant worldviews

For where men have made the earth that is trodden underfoot, and have largely veiled the heavens themselves, it is but natural that they should think that they have made everything, and that it is they who rule it.

These things were as the bones of the Universe—facts beyond doubting—if they were not true, nothing anywhere was anything but a dream.

As Max DePree, former CEO of furniture maker Herman Miller, put it, "The first job of a leader is to define reality.

In the realm of the phenomenal, "less is more" only when less is the sum total of more.

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

The bedrock theory I am referring to is the Theory of Reality, which states: Reality is neither the way you wish things to be nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are. Either you acknowledge reality and use it to your benefit, or it will automatically work against you.

You develop a positive mental attitude by being good at what you do, by understanding the realities of what it takes to succeed, and by having the self-discipline to base your actions on those realities.

As pessoas de Madison County não falavam assim, sobre aquelas coisas. Falavam sobre o tempo, sobre os produtos agrícolas, dos recém-nascidos e dos enterros, dos programas do Governo e das equipas desportivas. Não da arte e dos sonhos. Não das realidades que silenciavam a música, e encerravam os sonhos dentro de uma caixa.