Quotes About Running Away From Reality

#1. Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better.

John P. Kotter

#2. If some people can imagine that a person they love is alive in another world, why can't I imagine Maurice is alive in this one An artist is a person who uses art to run away from reality. It's not wrong-it's survival. There's nothing wrong with me creating a world in which Maurice is alive.

Robin Gibb

#3. Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

Philip Yancey

#4. We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.

Ann Richards

#5. Artist in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

Marsilio Ficino

#6. He loved politics in large part exactly because it meant time spent with men like Cactus Jack Garner(who would be remembered for observing that the vice presidency was not worth a pitcher of warm piss).

David McCullough

#7. How to unravel the knot of reality? Slowly and patiently. You cannot run away from it. You cannot run towards it. Yet truth runs in your footsteps. It is the face in the mirror, the light of the sun, the winter rainstorms, the heat of summer in the city

Frederick Lenz

#8. If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.

Yao Ming

#9. What I love about what I've been given - and luck has a lot to do with it - is that if you follow your heart you'll wind up doing exactly what you want to do. I was fortunate enough to have enough of a foundation with people behind me to do what was in my heart. And it's all worked out.

Julianna Margulies

#10. The writer is often faced with two choices
turn away from the reality of life's intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling with it. The writer who chooses the former soon runs out of energy and produces elegantly tired fiction.

Chinua Achebe

#11. [ ... ] if you don't know what you're running away from, chances are you'll bring it along anywhere you go.

Alice Walsh

#12. Wealth is like the morning dew
which dissipates with the
advent of the sunrise"
(A Ndebele Proverb)

Ndaba Sibanda

#13. Those who run away from the reality will eventually get run over by it!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. You can't conquer reality by running away from it.

Og Mandino

#15. IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#16. It was easier to believe in the Dragon and less easy to believe in Thorin in these wild parts

J.R.R. Tolkien

#17. When I went to jail, reality hit so hard that it took my breath away, took my stance away, took my strength away. I was there buck naked, humiliated, sitting in my own crap and urine - this is a metaphor. My ego had run off. Your ego is the biggest coward.

Tim Allen

#18. It doesn't bother me that Seven has such an overtly sexual presence, because she has no concept of what effect that physical package would have on some male member of the crew. That's what's fun, her innocence.

Jeri Ryan

#19. Of course it's not simple. Who said it was simple? But you know what? Lots of loose ends don't ever get tied up. Play the hand you're dealt. Move on.

Michael Punke