Reality Quotes - Page 63

Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.

The fact that we have to discuss reality as though there were no reality is an indication of the confusion of our times.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

To me, a leader is a visionary that energizes others. This definition of leadership has two key dimensions: a) creating the vision of the future, and b) inspiring others to make the vision a reality.

Reality is negotiable.

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

Life is an opportunity afforded to each not to eat and drink, but to achieve something nobler and higher to merge in the Reality.

The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.

The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again.

Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.

By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

The purpose of meditation is to create focus. It is about focusing your attention on your experience. The reason for focus: it allows you to be here now. Your only reality is This Moment, right here, right now. Peace is found in such awareness.

These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.

We don't live for realities, but for the fantasies, the dreams of what might be. If we lived for reality, we'd be dead, every last one of us. Only dreams keep us going...When you are acting, don't settle for anything less than the biggest dream for your character's future.

We think we are experiencing reality but what we are really experiencing is our thinking.

A lot of times, when you have a disability, one of the things you deal with is other people's projections of what your experience is and their fear about it, and not seeing the experience you're having. There's nothing horrifying about it to me. It is what I deal with. It is my reality and my life, but it's not horrible.

Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality

Clean water is only as far away as the nearest tap, and there are taps everywhere. There's a faucet everywhere. But the reality is, the water in our toilets is cleaner than the water that most people are drinking.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

In science we must be interested in things, not in persons.

You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people.

Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.