Quotes About Reality

There is no success or failure in Nature.

Success is when reality catches up to your imagination.

Anyone who seeks success or greatness should first forget about both and seek only the truth. The rest will follow.

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

As long as you are in the relative worlds, you should be realistic and know there is winning and losing here.

And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.

Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.

The boys think they can all be athletes, and the girls think they can all be singers. That's the way to fame and success. ...as a group blacks must give up their illusions.

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.

I think because I worked really hard before I had any kind of success it kept me grounded. You just don't know how long that success is gonna be there.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

From my point of view, which is the point of view of no illusions, there is only winning and losing. You might as well be a winner.

People use ideas of non-duality as an escape from reality. It is very easy to say there is no winning and losing and justify the fact that you didn't do a very good job.

I would enjoy experiencing the hollowness of success at first- hand.

I'm not even aware of my success. Success is such an illusion.

Success is overrated.

Success is always less funny than failure.

You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.

In my mind, partial failure is always better than delusory success.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

Then, when they had thus passed the day in building castles in the air, they separated their flocks, and descended from the elevation of their dreams to the reality of their humble position.

However much a man is inured to taking risks, however well prepared he is for danger, the fluttering of his heart and the pricking of his skin will always let him know the vast difference that lies between dream and reality, planning and execution.

There is only one serious matter to be considered in life, and that is death.

One must take the world as one finds it.