Reality Quotes

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
Bill Watterson

Accept, Denial, Selective

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
Douglas Adams

Guide, Definitive, Inaccurate

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.
Shawn Johnson

Time, Focus, Everything

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.
Richard Dawkins

Poetry, Culture, Needs

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.
Brian Tracy

Feeling, Whatever, Becomes

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
Alan Watts

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.
Chuck Palahniuk

Truth, Live, Real

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
Frida Kahlo

Dreams, Paint, Nightmares

There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.
Deepak Chopra

Single, System, Perception

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
Edmund Burke

Political, Give, Color

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.
Paul Watzlawick

Dangerous, Belief, View

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Desiderius Erasmus

Live, Dream, Face

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
Nikola Tesla

Today, Through, After

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
Yoko Ono

Alone, Together, Dream

There is no unique picture of reality.
Stephen Hawking

Picture, Unique

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Often, Virtues, Vices

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it.
Malcom X

Patriotism, Wrong, Matter

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
Max de Pree

Leader, Between, Last

Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
Thomas Aquinas

Mind, Drawn, Equivalent

One person's crazyness is another person's reality.
Tim Burton

Person, Another

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
Ansel Adams

Love, Thought, Before

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.
Lady Gaga

Live, Between, Times

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.
Jacque Fresco

Real, Whatever, Happens

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
Henry Miller

Chaos, Written, Score

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.
Paul Tillich

Life, Faith, God

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Become, Fine, Costs

The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.
Drew Barrymore

Life, Good, Happy

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
Alex Haley

Sure, Either, Deal

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
Chinua Achebe

Art, Him, Different

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
Jesse Jackson

Good, Men, Death

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