Reality Quotes - Page 35

• Astonishment is the proper response to reality.

  Terence McKenna

  Astonishment, Response

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• There is knowledge of God and the spiritual nature of man, as well as other types of reality..., that are not reducible to the world dealt with by the so-called "natural" sciences. The idea that knowledge - and, of course, reality - is limited to that world is the single most destructive idea on the stage of life today.

  Dallas Willard

  Spiritual, Men, Ideas

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• I started working at Bravo in 2005, when I was offered a job by Lauren Zalaznick, the network's chairman. She encouraged me to start a blog. I wrote behind-the-scenes gossip about 'Battle of the Network Reality Stars,' the first show I took on as head of current programming.

  Andy Cohen

  Jobs, Stars, Gossip

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• Reality is not so much what happens to us; rather, it is how we think about those events that create the reality we experience. In a very real sense, this means that we each create the reality in which we live.

  Albert Ellis

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality.

  John C. Maxwell

  Disappointment, Expectations, Gaps

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions that Will Help You See It and Seize It”, p.15, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,' Brian De Palma, handsome young god... he, in reality, is a very silly man. And I mean that in a good way. He'll walk around the set talking in little weird voices, making people laugh.

  Eric Stoltz

  Growing Up, Silly, Mean

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• This world can seem marvellously convincing until death collapses the illusion and evicts us from our hiding place. What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  World, Clue, Illusion

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• What the philosophers have to say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which reads Pressing Done Here. If you brought your clothes in to be pressed, you would be fooled: for the sign is only for sale.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Clothes, Would Be, Done

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• In many ways we are a dream for people, not a reality. That counts in your mind. It shows how much you can touch people, and as much as you can try to give those people somehow it is nothing compared to what they live in their own mind, in their dreams, for you.

  Ayrton Senna

  Dream, People, Giving

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• When things have gone really wrong in my life, I've cried like a child. I have really, really cried. I cry it out. Two-three days I cry, and then I'm like, enough, time to deal with reality and figure a way out. This is the way I have dealt with everything.

  Bipasha Basu

  Children, Two, Enough Time

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• For the longest time, Indian women have been okay with being curvy. But I think the modern Indian woman needs to get toned. I don't endorse being thin. Anorexia and bulimia are a reality in India because everybody wants to be thin.

  Bipasha Basu

  Thinking, Anorexia, India

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• The burning bushes, the smoking mountains, . . . the Cumorahs, and the Kirtlands were realities; but they were the exceptions. . . . Always expecting the spectacular, many will miss entirely the constant flow of revealed communication.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Communication, Smoking, Missing

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• I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Thinking, Trying, Way

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• Vision with action makes a powerful reality.

  Ron Kaufman

  Powerful, Vision, Action

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• I need the reality of other people, work, to fulfill myself. Must never become a mere mother and housewife.

  Sylvia Plath

  Mother, People, Needs

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.329, Anchor

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• Perception precedes reality.

  Andy Warhol

  Perception

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• Honesty is making our words align with reality. Integrity is making reality align with our words.

  Michael Hyatt

  Honesty, Integrity, Our Words

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• The best leaders operate in four dimensions: vision, reality, ethics, and courage.

  Peter Koestenbaum

  Leader, Vision, Four

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• I am the epitome of what you dream to be and the reality of what you can't be.

  Behdad Sami

  Dream, Epitome

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• Even people's dreams don't match the reality of my life. I don't dream, I set goals and accomplish them.

  Behdad Sami

  Dream, People, Goal

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• Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and that, therefore, all photographs lie in one way or another.

  John Szarkowski

  Lying, Different, Way

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• Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

  Bill Gates

  Age, World, Bigs

  "Life lessons: From one Gates to another" by Marco R. Della Cava, abcnews.go.com.

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• Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen that it works only, despite its pretensions, by taking the world largely for granted, we are not in a position to contrast all these appearances with an alternative reality. We cannot shed our ordinary responses, and if we could it would leave us with no means of conceiving a reality of any kind.

  Thomas Nagel

  Taken, Mean, Views

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• You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.

  Plato

  Mind, Vision, Study

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• We live in our myths, we only endure reality.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Endure, Myth

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