Not Accepting Reality Quotes

#1. Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

Abraham Maslow

#2. The only way for the market to accept this reality is if fares are advanced slowly and cautiously, and the very low fares do still appear from time-to-time in the market to allow those who will not travel without them to have access to our service.

Clive Beddoe

#3. The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.

Bertrand Russell

#4. In his mother's honor, vowing not to commit the "fashionable stupidity" of ignoring things he didn't understand, Max performed a brave act of nonconformity by accepting the possibility that his dreams might be exactly what they seemed: real.

Sol Luckman

#5. Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.

David Richo

#6. Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.

Allan Lokos

#7. Once we came to accept the photographic image as reality, the way to its future simulation was open.

Lev Manovich

#8. People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it.

Lionel Suggs

#9. Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.

Phillip E. Johnson

#10. Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.

Elizabeth Edwards

#11. The only philosophical problem with accepting the existence of Wonderland is that it means that our reality could actually be a figment of our imagination,

Cameron Jace

#12. One new reality is global interconnectivity and the fact that all challenges must be addressed on the basis of 'togetherness.' Thus the most crucial factor in accepting the new reality and confronting its opportunities and risks is our willingness to develop shared norms on all levels.

Klaus Schwab

#13. The process of leniency involves accepting the reality of the current situation and finding a satisfying meaning therein, as opposed to misconstruing or denying the facts of the situation.

Sandra L. Schneider

#14. You shouldn't be afraid of science. Accepting the reality of nature makes life more exciting and even more precious.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#15. That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.

Haruki Murakami

#16. Accept that you are that - you are the matchless, eternal reality. That's true seeing, true humility.

Frederick Lenz

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

#18. Because the reality of death has not yet penetrated awareness, survivors can appear to be quite accepting of the loss.

Joan Didion

#19. Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream.

Abbi Glines

#20. When you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie rather than accepting yourself for who you really are - or, in this case, pretend something happened when it didn't. The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you.

Michael J. Sullivan

#21. Dying is like diving into a deep lake on a hot day. There's the shock of that sharp, cold change, the pain of it for a second, and then accepting is a swim in reality. But after so many times, even the shock wears off.

Richard Bach

#22. Transmit your vision emotionally by gaining credibility, demonstrating passion, establishing relationships and communicating a felt need. Transmit it logically by confronting reality, formulating strategy, accepting responsibility, celebrating victory and learning from defeat.

John C. Maxwell

#23. I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever truths are available.

Josephine Hart

#24. Accepting a situation doesn't mean you have to be okay with it. You can take steps to change things, but then you need to detach from the outcome & accept how things turn out. You keep doing your best & accept reality. If you keep getting upset over things you have no control over, you have no peace

Brenda Wilhelmson

#25. To accept reality is only to encourage it.

Robert Breault

#26. Accepting the reality of our broken, flawed lives is the beginning of spirituality not because the spiritual life will remove our flaws but because we let go of seeking perfection and, instead, seek God, the one who is present in the tangledness of our lives.

Mike Yaconelli

#27. OK, I say again, not really understanding what it is I am agreeing to, what it is precisely I am accepting. But I am accepting something. The truth of my circumstances? The reality I have until now avoided? It's much worse than I imagined and also somehow better.

Bill Clegg

#28. Those [old] days are gone ... accept the reality and do it.

Ava DuVernay

#29. You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.

Robert Breault

#30. And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting -
In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

Alberto Caeiro

#31. Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.

Rajneesh

#32. Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him.

Brennan Manning

#33. It doesn't count if your swing is going the highest if you're getting pushed.

Cynthia Lewis

#34. Accept not a mediocre effort but any end result of a super effort

Manoj Arora

#35. I don't know whether this is the best of times or the worst of times, but I assure you it's the only time you've got. You can either sit on your expletive deleted or pick a daisy.

Art Buchwald

#36. My doctor told me I was going to be marginal at this test and he'd given me some hope that maybe I was going to be OK. But when I went in and did it I realized I wasn't going to be able to pass it so I've been working on accepting reality.

Doug MacDonald

#37. The power of the creative imagination is not only merely content with observing the world as it is, accepting a given reality, but is capable of creating a new reality by transforming the inner as well as the outer world

Anagarika Govinda

#38. The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is
not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth.
Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great
a little understood
thing.

John Kenneth Galbraith