Reality Quotes

The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.

Your thinking creates your reality.

Imaginations and illusions are always so much more powerful and bigger than this mediocre and boring thing called reality.

Considering a work program at this time is quite simply out of touch with the reality we confront.

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible.

To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.

Goals are to be set clear without frills. Do not be deterred and take reality as it is, not as it should be.

The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That's reality. The reality that's being talked about is something else entirely.

What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the gift of the Holy Spirit is a reality.

If you want to turn a vision into reality, you have to give 100% and never stop believing in your dream.

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

Faith is facing reality without being discouraged by it.

I am after painting reality impressed on the mind so hard that it returns as a dream, but I am not after painting dreams as such, or fantasy.

I'm telling you there's an enemy that would like to attack America, Americans, again. There just is. That's the reality of the world. And I wish him all the very best.

The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

I do think the reality is, there is a general recognition of what I've accomplished.

I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.

Any girl from any walk of life dreams of that special dress, and I try to make that dream a reality for her.

Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important than the ends.

Emotions are captive to reality

We've got to have a legacy of leadership. We've got to bring along with us a generation of black women who are going to confront twenty-first-century realities.

I stake the future on the few humble and hearty lovers who seek God passionately in the marvelous, messy world of redeemed and related realities that lie in front of our noses.

A scientist is a man who changes his beliefs according to reality; a theist is a man who changes reality to match his beliefs.

Reality is blocked by form and image.

It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality.

The Law of Concentration states that whatever you dwell upon, grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality.

When you dream too much of the sun, you forget the trees.

For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift.

Reality is not what it used to be.

The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being.

What's with the poverty Tourette's? Why do these two think we need a hobo for president?

Today I have a choice. I can resist reality and suffer pain or peacefully accept what I cannot change.

I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.

This city desert makes you feel so cold. It's got so many people, but it's got no soul.

dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.

Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned.

tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.

The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.

Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams.

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

People believe mistakenly, that with death comes atonement, when in reality, life is for atonement and Death is for Judgment.

Sometimes you can't see your way out. The "dark night of the soul" - it's a reality for many, many people.

The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible.

My images are not images of reality, but show a kind of second reality, the image of the image.

Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities. Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.