If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.
Morgan Freeman

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
Eric Cantona

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
William James

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
William James

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

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

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
Ralph Marston

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
Ralph Marston

Reality is not always probable, or likely.
Jorge Luis Borges

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

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman

Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.
Les Brown

You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.
Les Brown

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.
Lauryn Hill

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

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
George Lucas