Quotes About Confronting Reality

#1. 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

#2. When we come face-to-face with our fears we are really confronting ourselves.

Bryant McGill

#3. I loved him," Muire said. "We were in love." As if that were enough.

Anita Shreve

#4. To live the life you've always wanted, you must confront the issues you've always avoided.

Orrin Woodward

#5. Practice random acts of kindness, the world needs it more than you think

Boonaa Mohammed

#6. 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

#7. My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you have no makeup on.

Rachel Bilson

#8. The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.

Eliot Spitzer

#9. He knows that kind of love. It is what he feels for Gallicina. It is the world reformed, made new, each time the lover sees the beloved's face. It is the miracle which makes the cosmos dance, which keeps the planets in their courses, which fuels the fire of the stars. It is salvation.

Susan Palwick

#10. The beauty of the world of Unbreakable is that you're playing it for reality. It should never feel like a comic book movie. It feels like a straight-up drama. It's real. You're confronting the possibility that comic book characters were based on people that were real.

M. Night Shyamalan

#11. We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.

Steve Maraboli

#12. There is power in confronting your fears. In knowing what it is you fear above all, you can prevent it from becoming your reality. There are always choices.

Kelseyleigh Reber

#13. Simon Wiesenthal told me that any political party in a democracy that uses the word 'freedom' in its name is either Nazi or Communist.

Simon Wiesenthal

#14. To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.

George Santayana

#15. The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.

Barry Ritholtz

#16. The way in which science and religion by and large complement each other is becoming ever clearer, as are the natures of the various points of tension between them and some possible resolutions of those tensions.

George F. R. Ellis

#17. Ferguson's out of order. He has lost all sense of reality. He is going out looking for a confrontation, then asking the person he is confronting to apologise. He's pushed the cork in a bit far this time.

Arsene Wenger

#18. It's like a malicious person lifting a photograph from the developing chemicals too early, and then pronouncing the photographer incompetent.

John Taylor Gatto

#19. They paddled easily, in unison, the paddles turning in their hands so that they did not leave the water on the forward stroke. The small waves slapped softly against the bows. Otherwise they made no noise. It was dark. Nobody saw them go. They just left the land and went off across the sea.

Ian Fleming

#20. But this was the first occasion I had come across someone for whom art was a means of avoiding reality rather than confronting it head on, an idea so strange to me that I didn't fully comprehend it at the time.

Deirdre Madden

#21. Afternoon at the Coffee Shoppe slipped into evening just as Joshua's caffeination reached the heights of the Rwandan plantations where his beverage originated.

Aleksandar Hemon

#22. Reality is painful
it's so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you're good at or else to pick something so hard there's no point at which it's obvious you're failing
but it's impossible to get better without confronting it.

Aaron Swartz

#23. The more importance we place on avoiding unpleasant feelings in life, the more our life tends to go downhill.

Russ Harris

#24. I think parenting actually makes you lose pieces of your soul again, because they go off, into your children. Or, I mean, I am so fragmented, and I'm such a spacey person.

Larkin Grimm