Quotes About Reality Checks

#1. Mathematicians need proofs to keep them honest. All technical areas of human activity need reality checks. It is not enough to believe that something works, that it is a good way to proceed, or even that it is true. We need to know why it's true. Otherwise, we won't know anything at all.

Ian Stewart

#2. When you're a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.

Chris Evert

#3. In this,
journey,
of reaching,
to myself,
I have had,
many a,
thoroughfares,
goodbye affairs,
reality checks,
and,
lovely overwhelms.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#4. One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks ... who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.

David Brin

#5. I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me.

Vaclav Havel

#6. This is definitely a reality check for us, we've just got to learn from this and move on.

Alan W. Black

#7. I pay these niggas with a reality check ...

Lil' Wayne

#8. I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn't just learn from reading every retail publication I could get my hands on, I probably learned the most from studying what John Dunham was doing across the street

Sam Walton

#9. I love you. Deal with it.

Jennifer Probst

#10. Check out the albums, ... Check out the live performances. That's the reality of it all. Music is such an energizing thing.

John Mayall

#11. Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#12. The mere will to live was clearly no match for the pains and aggravations that punctuate the life of the average Western man.

Michel Houellebecq