Reality Quotes - Page 16

• Dutch beaches were known to me as man-made territories, as part of various land reclamation projects. But I was also interested in the media reality of the Moon landing. I wanted to use that event as a measure of time, to see what had happened in those thirty years - which happens to be my lifetime as well. I was born in 1967 and I remember seeing the Moon landing on TV when I was two. All those things were in play. Then it became a big production. It took five months to gather up the goodwill and make it happen.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Beach, Moon, Men

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I've just finished reading Reality Hunger and I'm lit up by it-astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed. . . . It really is an urgent book: a piece of art-making itself, a sublime, exciting, outrageous, visionary volume.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Book, Reading

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• Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Beautiful, Book, Long

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• So herein lies the choice for those of us who are Christians. We can either stay within the Christianity we have mastered with the Jesus we have domesticated, or we can leave Christianity as a destination, embrace Christianity as a way of life, and then journey to reality, where God is present and living in every person, every human community, and all creation.

  Samir Selmanovic

  Christian, Jesus, Lying

  Samir Selmanovic (2009). “It's Really All About God: How Islam, Atheism, and Judaism Made Me a Better Christian”, p.63, John Wiley & Sons

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• Contrarian thinking at its best simply asks, Is this really true? It speaks up when the politically correct answer or the conventional wisdom doesn't match reality - when things simply don't work the way everyone says they should.

  Larry Osborne

  Thinking, Answers, Way

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• To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling. It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.

  Ai Weiwei

  People, Feelings, World

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• Thomas Hauser respects boxing and boxers. He gives readers insight into what happens in and out of the ring. Everything he writes is fair-minded and reality-based with a human touch.

  Lennox Lewis

  Writing, Boxing, Giving

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• The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Infinite, Understood, Concepts

  "Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science". Book by Werner Heisenberg, 1958.

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• There's so many ways to be a voice and that's what I'm figuring out. Being an artist, being an actor, it's about telling stories that could heal, that could open up discussion that could make the community better. There are many (Latino) stories that need to be told and haven't been told right. If I could help be that voice then that's what I'm going to do, because this is a reality for me.

  Richard Cabral

  Artist, Voice, Community

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• On the journey of the warrior-bodhisattva, the path goes down, not up, as if the mountain pointed toward the earth instead of the sky. Instead of transcending the suffering of all creatures, we move toward turbulence and doubt however we can. We explore the reality and unpredictability of insecurity and pain, and we try not to push it away. If it takes years, if it takes lifetimes, we let it be as it is. At our own pace, without speed or aggression, we move down and down and down. With us move millions of others, companions in awakening from fear.

  Pema Chodron

  Pain, Moving, Warrior

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• We're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels. And when we begin to realize that we're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels, we find that it is much easier to understand where other people are coming from. All the ones who don't have the same reality tunnel as us do not seem ignorant, or deliberately perverse, or lying, or hypnotized by some mad ideology, they just have a different reality tunnel. And every reality tunnel might tell us something interesting about our world, if we're willing to listen.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Lying, Tunnels, Our World

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• If Christians would have the same faith in their God that non-Christians have in a mere materialistic idea, 'Thy Kingdom come' would shortly be a reality in this world of sorrow and travail.

  Ben Salmon

  Christian, Ideas, Sorrow

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• Modi Model of Development is more a hype than reality, and the Congress has always stood for inclusive development.

  Preneet Kaur

  Hype, Development, Congress

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• God could easily appear and clear up the global religious chaos and confusion. But a delusion can never appear in reality.

  C. J. Anderson

  Religious, Confusion, Chaos

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• The termination is not based on innocence or guilt, but on biology. The sociopath personality is fraudulent. They are impostors within the human species. Killing a sociopath is equivalent to killing God. Neither exists in reality. They are empty shells of imagination, said Chiron

  C. J. Anderson

  Imagination, Personality, Guilt

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• Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality.

  C. J. Anderson

  Clever, Imagination, Use

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• I was never a prisoner of any theory. What guided me were reason and reality. The acid test I applied to every theory or scheme was: Would it work? The acid test is in performance, not promises. It is not from weakness that one commands respect. As long as the leaders take care of their people, they will obey the leaders.

  Mr. Lee

  Long, People, Leader

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• Modernism had two great wishes. It wanted its audience to be led toward a recognition of the social reality of the sign (away from the comforts of narrative and illusionism, was the claim); but equally it dreamed of turning the sign back to a bedrock of World/Nature/Sensation/Subjectivity which the to and fro of capitalism had all but destroyed.

  T. J. Clark

  Two, Wish, Comfort

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• Cross-cultural reality testing forces people to examine both their own and others' understandings of reality. Most people simply assume that the
  way they look at things is the way things really are, and judge other cultures' views of reality before understanding them. These judgments are
  based on ethnocentrism, which closes the door to further understanding and communication. Furthermore, ethnocentric judgments keep missionaries from examining their own beliefs and values to determine which of them are based on biblical foundations and which on their cultural beliefs.

  Paul G

  Communication, Biblical, Doors

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• Sometimes having the dream makes you more content than having the reality.

  Lorraine Heath

  Dream, Sometimes

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• If reality is not what you want it to be, change it. You should not accept anything blindly, not death, not immortality.

  Hannu Rajaniemi

  Want, Immortality, Accepting

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• If reality is not what you want it to be, change it.

  Hannu Rajaniemi

  Want, What You Want, Ifs

  Hannu Rajaniemi (2012). “The Fractal Prince”, p.109, Hachette UK

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• First, believe in your ability to create the future. That's what leaders do-that is our job. Understand reality but never be imprisoned by it. Reality is a moment in time. The future has not yet been written-it is written by leaders.

  Mark Millar

  Jobs, Believe, Leader

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• Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as difficult as it may appear.

  Paul Singer

  Creating, May, Financial

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• If reality TV has taught us anything, it's that you can't keep people with no shame down.

  LIZ

  Taught Us, People, Tvs

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