Reality Quotes

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Problem, Create

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
T. S. Eliot

Cannot, Bear, Humankind

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
Paulo Coelho

Life, Lost, Simplicity

If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.
Clint Eastwood

Mind, Person, Him

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Work, Greatest, Feelings

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.
Clint Eastwood

Characters, Liked, Grounded

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Earl Nightingale

Mind, Become, Whatever

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
Charles Lamb

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
Philip K. Dick

Words, Control, Meaning

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Ray Bradbury

Drunk, Writing, Cannot

Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.
Bill Maher

Live, Book, Problem

Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.
Hillary Clinton

Gay, Human, Western

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Often, Suffer, Harm

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
John Ruskin

Positive, Truth, Art

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso

Art, Start, Abstract

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
Jack Welch

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
Pope John Paul II

Freedom, Today, True

I accept reality and dare not question it.
Walt Whitman

Accept, Question, Dare

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
Les Brown

Become, Opinion

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.
Ayrton Senna

Best, Same, Cannot

I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being able to see one's face, not being able to have some sense of communication in that way, is for many societies a challenge.
Hillary Clinton

Society, Challenge, Sense

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel Johnson

Thinking, May, Travelling

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
Vincent Van Gogh

Nature, Important, Feeling

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
Lily Tomlin

Stress, Touch, Cause

I like live audiences, with real people - virtual reality is no substitute.
Hillary Clinton

Live, Real, Virtual

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.
Sigmund Freud

Physical, Appears, Psychical

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
Thomas Sowell

Education, Isolation, Expensive

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
Abraham Maslow

Love, Human, Self

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren G. Bennis

Leadership, Vision, Capacity

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
Joe Paterno

Confidence, Team, Individual

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