Reality Quotes - Page 34

Escapism- that's what I like. I'm not so crazy about the reality of everything.

Education is critical for people to become compassionate. If you don't know the problem and you don't know the reality, how can you help?

I've come to believe that God, in His wisdom, allows martyrdom in every generation in part because, without them, the reality of Christ's death for us becomes increasingly blurry... As we look at [the martyrs], the mist that sometimes enshrouds first-century Golgotha is burned away, and we see...the Lord nailed to the cross.

That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience.... Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is.

Climate change is a crucial issue in todays global agenda. Hopefully, we will wake up to this reality, sooner rather than later. Pressure has been mounting on European Union Member States to act decisively to fight global warming. A bold target has been set reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 20 by 2020.

Check out the albums, ... Check out the live performances. That's the reality of it all. Music is such an energizing thing.

I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.

In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.

It is our business not to supply reality but to invent allusions to the conceivable which cannot be presented.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

Do the structures of language and the structures of reality (by which I mean what actually happens) move along parallel lines? Does reality essentially remain outside language, separate, obdurate, alien, not susceptible to description? Is an accurate and vital correspondence between what is and our perception of it impossible? Or is it that we are obliged to use language only in order to obscure and distort reality -- to distort what happens -- because we fear it?

Reality gets created through acts of observation

I hold a vision of this blue green planet, safe and in balance. At the end of the Fossil Fuel Era, we are emerging to a new reality. We are ready to make the next leap - as momentous as abolishing slavery or giving women the vote.

I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage. Our history will be what we make it. And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, or color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live.

Being empowered with the knowledge that you are the creator of your own reality, is the best way to accelerate healing and learning.

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.

I'm a firm believer that to really understand a business takes years, not months. As an investment analyst you think you understand a business from the outside, but the reality is that, once you are inside, you can go on learning for five or ten years.

We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

Understand your darkness and it will vanish; then you will know what light is. Understand your nightmare for what it is and it will stop; then you will wake up to reality. Understand your false beliefs and they will drop; then you will know the taste of happiness.

It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.

Cancer affects everyone, and it's up to all of us to support the important research that can one day make a much sought-after cure a reality.

Perception precedes reality.

Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality.

You already have within you everything you need to turn your dreams into reality.