Reality Quotes - Page 7

• First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wise, Inspirational Life, New Beginnings

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Become Your Best”, p.145, Jaico Publishing House

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• The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

  Jim Morrison

  Giving Up, Freedom, Hippie

  "Take Off The Mask" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2016.

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• Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

  Joseph Conrad

  Writing, Speech, Well Known

  1911 Under Western Eyes, prologue.

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• Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.

  Leon Joseph Suenens

  Success, Wise, Dream

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• The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."

  Richard P. Feynman

  Feelings, Conflict, Paradox

  "The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume III". Book edited by Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands (pp. 18-19), 1964.

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• What is necessary when we want to face reality? Stillness.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Want, Faces, Stillness

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• I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Being Strong, Peace

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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• When you srgue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.

  Byron Katie

  Love, Katie, Loses

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• When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Real, Nostalgia, Assuming

  Jean Baudrillard (2001). “Selected Writings”, p.174, Stanford University Press

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• It was also her nature that caused her letters to avoid emotional pitfalls and confine themselves to relating the events of her daily life in the utilitarian style of a ship's log. In reality they were distracted letters, intended to keep the coals alive without putting her hand in the fire, while Florentino Ariza burned himself alive in every line.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Emotional, Fire, Hands

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• The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Real, Don Juan, Dies

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

  Lionel Trilling

  Metaphysical, Materials, Hard

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• I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.

  Andre Breton

  Dream, Believe, Two

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• The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Want, Photographer

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• We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.

  William James

  Real, Blood, Growing

  William James (1950). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.321, Courier Corporation

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• Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be.

  Ralph Cudworth

  Thinking, Wish, Sullen

  Ralph Cudworth (1845). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated : with a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality”, p.493

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• Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

  J. G. Ballard

  Sprung Up, Fiction, Literature

  "Fictions of Every Kind" (1971)

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• True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

  Jean Cocteau

  Habit, Revealing, Realism

  "Le Mystère Laïc". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1928.

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• There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.

  Gertrude Stein

  Real, Literature

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “The Geographical History of America: Or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind”, p.54, Random House

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• Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

  Ralph Marston

  Motivational, Learning, Expectations

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• Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality.

  Stephen Covey

  Independent, Thinking, Independent Thinking

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.59, Mango Media Inc.

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• As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.

  Saul Alinsky

  World, Rules For Radicals, Organizer

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.19, Vintage

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• Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Copying, Chairs, Interest

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• Darkness is the absence of light. Absences do not exist. Sin does not exist .

  Rajneesh

  Light, Darkness, Doe

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• We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Accepting, Unprecedented

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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