So it’s hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
Students shy away from Maths, but in reality Maths is the best friend of man.
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.
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that’s what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It’s reality rap. It’s about what’s really going on.
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
I accept reality and dare not question it.
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day.
Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don’t wish to have as their reality.
I’m not chasing reality shows. Viewers want to see me and producers want me on their shows.
I was very much inspired by the things that I’d seen and done in politics, but I was also desperate for a complete departure from the reality of my political experience. ‘It’s Classified’ and my previous book ‘Eighteen Acres’ are both works of fiction, but if they do seem realistic, it’s by design.
I can’t admit things; that’s why I can’t go to funerals and stuff like that. I find it very, very difficult to deal with that kind of reality. I shut myself off totally because it affects me so badly.
We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.
I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.
The reality is that the only way change comes is when you lead by example.
Climate change is sometimes misunderstood as being about changes in the weather. In reality it is about changes in our very way of life.
The truth is that while those on the left – particularly the far left – claim to be tolerant and welcoming of diversity, in reality many are quite intolerant of anyone not embracing their radical views.
Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Ultimately, you choose to be happy or miserable. The reality is that although you are free to choose, you can’t choose the consequences of your choices. They’re preloaded. It’s a package deal.
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before.
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
I’m not interested in observed reality.
National security always matters, obviously. But the reality is that if you have an open door in your software for the good guys, the bad guys get in there, too.
When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.
In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.
I knew racial discrimination at its worst in the 1930s. I lived with the humility of it but I never lost my sense of humor. Humor is the escape valve from the deadly reality of adversity.
I like to be home on a Friday night. I don’t go out. I don’t go to clubs. It’s not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV.
The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don’t compromise, you may suffer.
To put it bluntly, there isn’t one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore’s success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.
You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings.
If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.
I don’t think you should meet the people you most admire. I don’t want reality to interfere with my image.
The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.
I was obviously never good enough to play at a top level, or even anywhere close to that, if I’m being honest. That’s the reality.
Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called Life.
Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
Virtual reality, all the A.I. work we do, all the robotics work we do – we’re as close to realizing science fiction as it gets.
I’ve got my own businesses I run every day and I like to think I’m a nurturer rather than a firer, but the reality is, if somebody continues not to succeed and do the right thing for the business they lose the job because they are affecting the livelihoods of others.
Disinformation is more than just lying: it’s the denial and twisting of reality in order to present some desired image to the rest of the world.
I grew up in a show business family, so we’ve always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I’ve always known what is and isn’t reality.
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
As soon as I reach any town, I talk to the shoe-shine boys or the barbers or the people in the restaurants, because it’s Mr. Joe Doakes who is very close to reality.
Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!
Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it – often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.
Know thyself. Remain steadfast. Follow your dreams. These are great directives and perfectly fitting for graduates. But reality is that achieving dreams takes a solid education – education that remains elusive for too many Americans.
My character in ‘Prison Break’ needs to be formidable. In reality, I’m not very tough at all.
Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.
You don’t get music in your daily life, do you? Even in a movie, it’s unnatural to have music. I always feel it’s unnatural. But I want to make it not unnatural, to construct reality in another sense.
I’ve always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You’re trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that’s about so you can represent it.
I’m just gonna keep making good music and continue to stay in tune with the people and with reality.
These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.
Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
Photograph the world as it is. Nothing’s more interesting than reality.
There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
In conclusion, reality serves as the canvas upon which our lives unfold. It is within the realm of reality that we find the power to shape our own narratives, seek personal growth, and forge meaningful connections. As we reflect on these quotes, may we embrace the truth of our circumstances, find solace in the shared human experience, and approach life’s challenges with resilience and wisdom. Let us navigate the depths of reality with open hearts and minds, and may we discover the beauty, growth, and purpose that lie within the tapestry of our existence.
