Reality Quotes - Page 21

• We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.

  Amity Shlaes

  Believe, Thinking, Media

  "Coolest Cal". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Imagination is nothing more than sensory states. Learn to go beyond an idea by feeling its reality.

  Neville Goddard

  Ideas, Imagination, Feelings

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• Sometimes what holds you together and what tears you apart are the same things.
  My lungs are made of armor so that I can breathe when you are not here.
  6.8 million people live alone in England. Do you feel lonely?
  I don't have the courage to face reality so I get lost in my dreams.
  You know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.

  Bill Watterson

  Dream, Lonely, People

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• It's so difficult to even suggest to me that I can't always achieve what I want right now; sometimes that is the reality. Time has taught me to be patient and flexible and I have to realize that maybe it wasn't meant to be right now but that doesn't mean it can't be next month or next year. It's inevitable, you get there in the end.

  Glenda Bailey

  Mean, Years, Want

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• There is no death! Death is very much like sunset. It is only an appearance. For, when the sun sets here, it rises elsewhere. In reality, the sun never sets. Likewise, death is only an illusion, an appearance. For, what is death here is birth elsewhere. For life is endless.

  Dada Vaswani

  Sunset, Birth, Life Is

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• Surely, it is only when the mind is creatively empty that it is capable of finding out whether there is an ultimate reality or not. But, the mind is never creatively empty; it is always acquiring, always gathering, living on the past or in the future, or trying to be focused in the immediate present: it is never in that state of creativeness in which a new thing can take place. As the mind is a result of time, it cannot possibly understand that which is timeless, eternal.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Past, Mind, Trying

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• Anytime you have a negative feeling toward anyone, you're living in an illusion. There's something seriously wrong with you. You're not seeing reality. Something inside of you has to change. But what do we generally do when we have a negative feeling? "He is to blame, she is to blame. She's got to change." No! The world's all right. The one who has to change is you.

  Anthony de Mello

  Feelings, Negative, World

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.51, Image

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• If you want to survive in the film industry, it's not about fighting for your visions because that's a given. It's thinking about how much is your vision going to cost, and then, what are the consequences, because you may have $100 million, but the reality is that $100 million needs to make $500 million to be a success.

  Cliff Martinez

  Fighting, Thinking, Vision

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality.

  Eboo Patel

  Ideas, Entrepreneur, Social

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that young people are going to continue on with the work on pluralism for two reasons, really. One is because it's the reality of the world that they live in, and I think young people from different backgrounds are asking themselves, what does it mean for me to be a Buddhist and friends with a Baptist?

  Eboo Patel

  Buddhist, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's a difficult thing to describe theology, what it means and how it disciplines thinking. Certainly, theology is the level at which the highest inquiry into meaning and ethics and beauty coincides with the largest-scale imagination of the nature of reality itself.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Mean, Thinking, Discipline

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Often, when I want to read something that is satisfying to me as theology, what I actually read is string theory, or something like that - popularizations, inevitably, of scientific cosmologies - because their description of the scale of things and the intrinsic, astonishing character of reality coincides very beautifully with the most ambitious theology. It is thinking at that scale, and it is thinking that is invested with meaning in a humanly evocative form. That's theology.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Character, Thinking, Ambitious

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think the connection between poetry and theology, which is profound in Western tradition - there is a great deal of wonderful religious poetry - both poetry and theology push conventional definitions and explore perceptions that might be ignored or passed off as conventional, but when they are pressed yield much larger meanings, seem to be part of a much larger system of reality.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Religious, Thinking, Yield

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We have demythologized prematurely, that we've actually lost the vocabulary for discussing reality at its largest scales. The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Vocabulary, Opposites, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The idea that the universe itself is physically structured around hierarchy was sort of an integration of earlier science and theology that was made by people like Thomas Aquinas, that was assumed doctrinally in that tradition. The Reformation rejected that model of reality and created a highly individualistic metaphysics in the sense that it located everything normative that can be said about reality in human perception, there being, of course, no other avenue of knowing. There is Scripture, there is conscience, there is perception itself.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Knowing, Ideas, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you read Calvin, for example, he says, How do we know that we are godlike, in the image of God? Well, look at how brilliant we are. Look how we can solve problems even dreaming, which I think is true, which I've done myself. So instead of having an externalized model of reality with an objective structure, it has a model of reality that is basically continuously renegotiated in human perception. I think that view of things is pretty pervasively influential in Protestant thought.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Dream, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I sometimes am discouraged by what seems to be a sort of conventional disparagement of humankind. I think often people feel that they are doing something moral when they are doing that, but that's not how I understand morality. I much prefer the "everyone is sacred, and everybody errs" model of reality.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Thinking, People, Sacred

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that grief is a profound spiritual, metaphysical, and - oddly - physical reckoning with death, which we don't understand well. It's both the process by which you relearn the world in the absence of someone who was a pillar in it, and the process in which you confront the reality of death.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Spiritual, Grief, Thinking

  "Ask the Author Live: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. March 2, 2011.

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• Miss America gets a lot of flak, but the reality is that it is uplifting and aspirational - 50% percent of my points were based on talent.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Uplifting, America, Missing

  "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I don't look to my situation to determine what choices I make. I've developed a good sense of values and beliefs. That's my reality. No matter where I am, God is still good. No matter where I am, nothing is impossible. It's those sort of principles that really anchor me.

  Kelly Clark

  Anchors, Choices, Principles

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The west is very concerned and actually afraid because the media is not informing them. There are too many moderate Muslims who are trying to whitewash the fears and concerns of the West. It's time for us to face reality - nobody is against Muslims. When I'm speaking about this situation, it's about Islamic doctrine. Islamic doctrine promotes violence and hatred against non Muslims. 60% of the Koran is dedicated to cursing and spreading hatred and violence against non-Muslims who are called 'Kaffir'.

  Reza Aslan

  Islamic, Media, Hatred

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• We're all being segregated or sent to our different rooms to watch television that's geared only for adults, to be honest. There's very little fare - outside of cartoons and a few things for children (and) I guess (some reality shows like) The Voice - that can be watched by the entire family.

  Michael Landon, Jr.

  Children, Voice, Cartoon

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• We're all subjective beings and trapped in our own realities and our own biographical stories and physical bodies and our histories - and that's the only way we can experience the world.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Stories, World, Body

  "Immersed in Movies: Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson Talk ‘Anomalisa’ and Adult Stop-Motion". Interview with Bill Desowitz, blogs.indiewire.com. November 16, 2015.

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• You're human. You'll screw up. Denying that is crazy. Forgiving yourself has all the benefits of self-esteem without making you a narcissist that's out of touch with reality.

  David D. Burns

  Crazy, Self Esteem, Forgiving

  Source: time.com

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• Sometimes something will be happening in pop culture and a movie will be right there, so you'll have this perception that maybe the movie got there first. But in reality, culture gets there first.

  Ellen Page

  Perception, Firsts, Culture

  Source: waytooindie.com

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