Reality Quotes - Page 30

• Think about the difference between how your local gas station and congressman respond to a spike in oil prices. One has the price placard outside changed to reflect the reality of the market within hours. The other sends out a press release, tries to organize a hearing, and at the end of amount accomplishes nothing. Meanwhile, the gas station has already made at least thirty additional adjustments to the realities of the market while your politico fails to get anything more than easy media.

  Joel Miller

  Thinking, Oil, Differences

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• The New York times' long-standing motto, 'All the News That's Fit to Print,' should be changed to reflect today's reality: 'Manufacturing News to Fit an Ideology.'

  Thomas Sowell

  New York, Long, Today

  Thomas Sowell (2010). “Dismantling America: And Other Controversial Essays”, p.266, Basic Books

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• You never change people by fighting their existing reality.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Fighting, People, Never Change

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• We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.

  Bill Crawford

  Mistake, Perception, Limits

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• I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of the conservative position.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Conservative, Behalf, Always Believe

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• I'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is also present within ourselves. It tells the truth about the human condition - that we're not okay.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Christian, Names, Evil

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.

  Alexander Pope

  Moments, Ability, Edges

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• This is the evolutionary value of play- play makes us flexible. By reinterpreting reality and begetting novelty, we keep from becoming rigid. Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Play, Identity, Way

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.43, Penguin

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• As artists, are we quasi psychiatrists who mend the soul? Do we provide the consolations, escapes, and reassurances which enable us to survive? Or are we reporters of the truth, assembling the multiple shards of reality into intricate portraits which seek out the connections between misery and blessing, violence and wisdom? Do we protect or investigate the heart?

  Russell Sherman

  Heart, Artist, Blessing

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• Matter is regarded as being constituted by a region of space in which the field is extremely intense . . . . . . There is no place in this new kind of Physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.

  Paul Davies

  Space, Matter, Fields

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• The Universe is not a collection of objects, but is an inseparable web of vibrating energy patterns in which no one component has reality independently from the entirety. Included in the entirety is the observer.

  Paul Davies

  Energy, Patterns, Inseparable

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• Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence.

  Rene Char

  Imagination, Magic, Desire

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• Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Dog, Clever, Home

  Jerome K. Jerome “Clocks”, Library of Alexandria

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• If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.

  Terence McKenna

  Way, Code, Hacked

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• We have this idea that everyone should be totally independent, totally whole, totally together spiritually, totally fulfilled. That is a myth. In reality, our lack of fulfillment is the most precious gift we have. It is the source of our passion, our creativity, our search for God. All the best of life comes out of our human yearning, our not being satisfied.

  Gerald May

  Passion, Creativity, Independent

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• Chris Davis [of the Davisfunds] has a temple of shame. He celebrates the things they did that lost them a lot of money. What is also needed is a temple of shame squared for things you didn't do that would have made you rich. Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition. Reality doesn't remind you. Why not celebrate stupidities in both categories?

  Charlie Munger

  Mistake, Errors, Stupidity

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• There has never been a master plan. Anyone who wanted to do it, we fired because it takes on a life of its own and doesn't cover new reality. We want people taking into account new information.

  Charlie Munger

  People, Want, Information

  Charlie Munger's opening speech at the 2004 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 5, 2004.

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• We only want what success we can get despite encouraging others to share our general view about reality.

  Charlie Munger

  Views, Want, Share

  "Diversification is bunk" by Charlie Munger, www.pionline.com. March 20, 2000.

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• We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.

  Roald Dahl

  Dream, Dreamer, Our Dreams

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• Reality is always the foe of famous names.

  Petrarch

  Names, Foe

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• The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.

  Terence McKenna

  World, Fields, Made

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• I want to shout out the stars on the walk of fame because they said something about they're not going to put my girl on the Walk of Fame because she's a reality star. It's like, people are so so dated and not modern. There's no way that Kim Kardashian should not have a star on the Walk of Fame. It's ridiculous concepts. I'm just going to give y'all the truth and you're just going to love it.

  Kanye West

  Girl, Stars, People

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• Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or homosexual. Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved away into different worlds, and there is no language we can share.... It is in the middle of intimacy that the reality of loneliness most dramatically appears.

  Rowan Williams

  Brother, Loneliness, Different

  Rowan Williams (1995). “A Ray of Darkness”, p.121, Cowley Publications

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• The thing that excites me about these informational technologies is I think we are going to be able to use virtual reality to show each other the insides of our own heads.

  Terence McKenna

  Technology, Thinking, Use

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• The reality you experience is a reflection of what you believe is most possible.

  Darryl Anka

  Believe, Reflection

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