Reality Problems Quotes

#1. [Fantasy] is a constructive aspect of the child's experimental exploration of reality, or his progressive relating of himself to reality, of his trial-and-error attempts to solve his reality problems.

Lauretta Bender

#2. Success is achieved by people who deeply understand reality and know how to use it to get what they want. The converse is also true: idealists who are not well-grounded in reality create problems, not progress.

Ray Dalio

#3. I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems.
You ask me what to do about them.
It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member of the human race.
Face that one first.

Idries Shah

#4. This next part is not going to be any fun, but it's like taking off a band-aid. It has to be done.

Kenneth Eade

#5. The guidelines say all the right things, ... They address all the issues that were raised as problems at the Air Force Academy. The major question is, how will be they become a reality A lot of the people implementing this are the people who violated it.

Abraham Foxman

#6. The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels, both financial and in-kind, and corruption problems abound.

Bradley A. Smith

#7. People who carry in their hearts a strong conviction concerning the living reality of the Almighty and their accountability to Him for what they do with their lives are far less likely to become enmeshed in problems that inevitably weaken society.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#8. Engineers, medical people, scientific people, have an obsession with solving the problems of reality, when actually ... once you reach a basic level of wealth in society, most problems are actually problems of perception.

Rory Sutherland

#9. I think that 'Flesh and Bone' represents the dance world very authentically. There's always this aspect of drama put on top of it, and it's showcasing the problems of the dance world, but I've had experiences in reality that were written into the show.

Sarah Hay

#10. All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality.

Michele Bachmann

#11. At home we've played very bad. That's the reality. We finished good, but we had problems at home.

Andres Nocioni

#12. If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we're going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it's our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it's because we're focused on ourselves!

Joyce Meyer

#13. It was the thought of him that I had problems with, I realised. The reality was really rather desirable.

Dorothy Koomson

#14. After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

Emile M. Cioran

#15. Like a flight simulator, fiction projects us into intense simulations of problems that run parallel to those we face in reality. And like a flight simulator, the main virtue of fiction is that we have a rich experience and don't die at the end.

Jonathan Gottschall

#16. The state of our civilization manifests itself both in the non-problems that terrify us beyond all reason - rising sea levels - and in the real problems we pay no heed to [population decline] ... In reality, much of the planet will be uninhabited long before it's uninhabitable

Mark Steyn

#17. Not feeling is no replacement for reality. Your problems today are still your problems tomorrow

Larry Michael Dredla

#18. This is one of the problems with reality: the extent to which it resembles bad fiction.

Mark O'Connell

#19. It was a bit of a surprise for us that we had problems in Hungary. But in reality, I think the car could have been pretty competitive with a trouble-free race.

Fernando Alonso

#20. The great religions are also, and tragically, sources of ceaseless and unnecessary suffering. They are impediments to the grasp of reality needed to solve most social problems in the real world.

Edward O. Wilson

#21. The loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss our problems in plain speech that describes reality, it is unlikely that we will be able to solve them.

Alexander Haig

#22. By the time I land in Iowa, I feel like my mind is more open to the reality of being back home and focusing on the problems of the people in my district.

Bruce Braley

#23. The reality is I meet a lot of actresses. They're wonderful, beautiful ladies. It's pretty hard to stay away from them. You know, there's worse problems to have.

David Sutcliffe

#24. We have bought unconditionally the economists' line that competition and innovation would solve all problems, and that we would finally accomplish a technological end-run around biological reality and the human condition.

Wendell Berry

#25. So many of our problems arise because, in our naive untrained state, we confuse our thoughts with actual reality. We seize on the content of our thoughts as real and build our entire perception and response to reality on it.

Dalai Lama XIV

#26. 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

#27. A "No Excuses" mindset does recognize the reality of your situation, but its emphasis is not on how to validate the condition, instead, it should be on how to solve the challenge the situation describes.

Farshad Asl

#28. Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#29. Obama was willing to compromise and Republicans were not. That's not a biased statement. One of my problems with the limitations of journalism is that straightforward descriptions of reality are seen as being biased.

Jonathan Alter

#30. Modern reality has got such a hold on us that ... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts ... the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and ... thrust us back into our personal [problems]

Vincent Van Gogh

#31. I support such a review, ... But the reality is that we don't need the results of a strategic study to know that there are some pressing problems in our military that demand our attention and our assistance now.

Joe Lieberman

#32. So given that reality, let us not cast that all of the problems and ills of our society are somehow upon the immigrants who have come to this country.

Luis Gutierrez

#33. I have experience and I am employing it in the service of a Chilean road for Chile's problems. We always take advantage of experience wherever it comes from, but adapting it to our reality. I am putting it to use in a Chilean way, for the problems of Chile. We are not anyone's mental colonists.

Salvador Allende

#34. I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#35. Racism and sexism are not "problems" or "topics." They are ways of defining reality and living our lives that most of us learned along with learning how to tie our shoes and how to drink from a cup.

Paula Rothenberg

#36. Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise ... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

Voltaire

#37. There are people who have let the problems of today lead them to conclude that for them life is not the way.

Stevie Wonder

#38. Inevitably, if we are to grow and change as adults, we must gradually learn to confront the challenges, paradoxes, problems and painful reality of an insecure world.

James P. Krehbiel

#39. This is the reality, that these people share the same problems as the rest of us and that those problems can be overcome.

Deborah Hutton

#40. The smallest issues can become the most important things in life and reality slips away.

David Millar

#41. Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change?

Pope Benedict XVI

#42. We once again see the painful reality of the spineless political intelligentsia

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#43. To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example.

John Sladek

#44. In one aspect, my works record the history of the development of Chinese society. Concern about the situation of Chinese reality is one important theme of my works. I am trying to ask, 'How does our society develop? What are the problems in our society? Where is our direction leading?'

Liu Bolin

#45. Probably she was right 'i love her, I'm honest with my feelings' these are my problems not her.' Xavier left this note on the napkin with a pen he was offered to comment in suggestion book at Gloria Jeans.

M.H. Rakib

#46. Depression is a reality with everyone. What's important is the ability to move on.

Pawan Mishra

#47. Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking and ruminating upon their problems.

Frederick Lenz

#48. The reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century. And the fact that we are going to have problems with fossil fuel is a given.

Henry Rollins

#49. Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.

Warren G. Bennis

#50. I've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really ... I don't even know if documentary itself does as good a job. It has its own problems in trying to get at the reality of the situation.

Gus Van Sant

#51. I believe that the time has arrived for medical investigation of the problems of manned rocket flight, for it will not be the engineering problems but rather the limits of the human frame that will make the final decision as to whether manned space flight will eventually become a reality.

Wernher Von Braun

#52. In many respects, theater is still grappling with problems of reality and representation that the visual art movement realized were unimportant many years ago.

Tim Crouch

#53. Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.

C.S. Lewis

#54. Relationships are the flavors of life.

Pawan Mishra

#55. Some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

Chuck Palahniuk

#56. Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

Margaret Thatcher

#57. The only permanent solution to your problems is to go inside and let go of the part of you that seems to have so many problems with reality. Once you do that, you'll be clear enough to deal with what's left.

Michael Singer

#58. it's the stories we tell ourselves that cause all the problems. If you look reality straight in the eye, you end up a lot less confused.

Nell Zink

#59. Fiction is an ancient virtual reality technology that specializes in simulating human problems.

Jonathan Gottschall

#60. We can't wave a magic wand and get rid of any of these people's problems, but what they want is they want to be heard.

Jamie Foxx

#61. If you listen to the political discourse in America today, you would think that all our problems have been caused by the Mexicans of the Chinese or the Muslims. The reality is that we have caused our own problems. Whatever has happened has been caused by isolating ourselves or blaming others.

Fareed Zakaria

#62. He leans in, resting his weathered hand on the bed. Treat all the bad things like dreams, Kenzie. That way, no matter how scary or dark they get, you just have to survive until you wake up.

Victoria Schwab

#63. It's human nature to view life from our own reality.
This causes serious problems when a rescue mission is being led by the senile or insane.

Jaime Buckley

#64. Humans are pretty amazing at living pretty much anywhere and so that makes me optimistic that perhaps humanity will be able to survive itself, because the reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century.

Henry Rollins

#65. Antifeminists are the only ones who benefit from their version of working on women's behalf; in reality, they put other women at risk and fail to solve any larger problems.

Jessica Valenti

#66. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.

Edward Sapir

#67. On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid,
And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.

Alberto Caeiro

#68. There were two problems with this idea. First, it led to crappy "virtual reality" movies like Virtuosity and The Lawnmower Man. And second, in the long run, it turned out to be totally wrong.

Ken Jennings

#69. We don't need to face our demons, we only need to face reality.

Marty Rubin

#70. Inner peace is found by facing life squarely, solving its problems, and delving as far beneath its surface as possible to discover its verities and realities.

Peace Pilgrim