Top 100 With Reality Quotes
#1. Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.
Sam Harris
#2. Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted ...
Sigfried Giedion
#4. This is one of the problems with reality: the extent to which it resembles bad fiction.
Mark O'Connell
#5. You don't have any problem with reality. You face it head on and tackle that bitch to the ground.
Sylvia Day
#6. If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.
Jacques Audiard
#7. The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
James A. Michener
#8. Human's aren't concerned with reality, merely their perceptions of it.
Benjamin R. Smith
#9. You see 'awesome' and I see 'lost.' It's very easy to lose touch with reality when you've got that many people thinking you are more than you really are.
Brian Bosworth
#10. Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy.
Fred Barnes
#11. The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality.
Richard J. Foster
#12. Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
Malcolm Boyd
#13. I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.
Byron Katie
#14. Not exclusively, but the bulk of our local economy should be covered by local currencies, which is more efficient than having global currencies which lose connection with reality in the markets, shops and communities of the people.
David Korten
#15. A lot of people in fashion don't want to be linked with anything that has to do with reality TV.
Lauren Conrad
#16. Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
Anthony De Mello
#17. In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#18. Indeed, my first interest in the pioneer work of Doctor Freud sprang, not from a concern for persons wounded in their collisions with reality, but from my personal curiosity about the nature of creativity and the springs of motivation. So
Trevanian
#19. Censors tend to do what only psychotics do; They confuse fantasy with reality.
David Cronenberg
#20. When you srgue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.
Byron Katie
#22. Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.
Leo Tolstoy
#23. After I read a good book, I have a hard time coping with reality.
Unknown
#24. I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I'm happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it.
Jimmy Stewart
#25. Not slumber, but sleep just this side of waking, where dreams fuse with reality.
Ellen Hopkins
#26. When I began writing, it was a cosmic thing: Inspiration! Wham! Short spurts of time when I felt out of touch with reality, temporarily insane and the result: a song!
Ann Reed
#27. The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.
Sam Harris
#28. I know all too well how it is when the beautiful visions you've been fed don't match up with reality.
Christina Baker Kline
#29. We're all born storytellers. It's part of the species. But, more specifically, I suppose a particular combination of sensitivity and trauma made me a writer: an essential disquiet with reality, which required exploration through portrayal.
Nic Pizzolatto
#30. I realized that it's insane to oppose it. When I argue with reality, I lose-but only 100% of the time. How do I know that the wind should blow? It's blowing!
Byron Katie
#31. Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The drama and the storytelling is really done in post.
Kurt Sutter
#32. Sometimes the changes in life came at you so fast, and with such fury, there was no way to keep up with reality.
J.R. Ward
#33. What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.
Andy Kaufman
#34. To argue with reality is to argue with God
Byron Katie
#35. Realism ... has no more to do with reality than anything else.
Hob Broun
#36. Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.
Philip K. Dick
#37. Thanks to a plethora of cognitive biases, faulty heuristics, and common fallacies of thought, you are probably deluding yourself minute by minute just to cope with reality.
David McRaney
#38. And where people do not want to know God, he usually allows them to be without him - at least for a while. When desire conflicts with reality, sooner or later reality wins.
Dallas Willard
#39. Sometimes what you see is not real, and the reality is not what you see. Somewhere between both these reasoning resides a fact: where there is a lack of trust and confidence, perception will always differ with reality.
Ashish Patel
#42. Religions are easy to invent. Most traditional religions have little or nothing to do with reality, are dependent on obfuscation, interpretation, guilt, and unreasoning faith ...
Anton Szandor LaVey
#43. Dreams! in their vivid coloring of life,
As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife
Of semblance with reality, which brings
To the delirious eye, more lovely things
Of Paradise and Love- and all our own!
Than young Hope in his sunniest hour hath known.
Edgar Allan Poe
#44. Divorce, and broken marriages, are all around us, but they're not frequently depicted on screen, or if they are, they're often depicted in ways that have very little to do with reality.
Katie Hafner
#45. I pulled him close. "You can try your best. The only problem is after this is all over with reality is going to be waiting for me."
He took my shirt off and tossed it over his shoulder pulling me down on the couch. He kissed me again, biting at my lip. "Ignorance is bliss.
Holly Hood
#46. To be in touch with God's truth is to be in touch with reality, and to live in accord with that reality makes for a better life (Ps. 119:2, 45).
Henry Cloud
#47. We children moved constantly in a world where myth and fable walked hand in hand with reality, and the borderline between them was at all times nebulous and shifting. The violent world of fairytale with its Bluebeards and shirts made from thistles wasn't that far from ours.
Mike Harding
#48. If your work is going to draw from life, you'd better work very hard to keep up with reality.
Lawrence Kasdan
#49. When things have gone really wrong in my life, I've cried like a child. I have really, really cried. I cry it out. Two-three days I cry, and then I'm like, enough, time to deal with reality and figure a way out. This is the way I have dealt with everything.
Bipasha Basu
#50. I think," Dr. Stone said, "that when you tried to kill yourself you got in touch with reality for the first time.
Philip K. Dick
#51. Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
#52. The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.
Edward Albee
#53. Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.
Diane Ackerman
#54. The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.
Muriel Rukeyser
#55. As writers like to remark, books are never finished, they are merely abandoned. This acceptance of necessary expediency leads to the increasing doubt and anxiety characteristic of the last hours before the first significant encounter with reality: the separation event.
Venkatesh G. Rao
#56. ...many people prefer the comfort of fantasy to the harshness of reality. They seem to reason this way: 'How can I arrange my beliefs so I'll feel most comfortable?' rather than arranging them to agree with reality.
Howard Kahane
#57. With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everything you hoped, and the camera loves them and they just blossom on the show. And then sometimes it's not all you envision.
Alison Sweeney
#58. If you ask me, people out of touch with reality aren't nearly as dangerous as lawyers like him who manipulate it.
Elizabeth Chandler
#59. ENGINEERS and programmers have an old saying that Eric's father liked to quote: no design survives an encounter with reality. His mother preferred the military version: no plan survives contact with the enemy.
D.A. Hill
#60. What chimps don't seem capable of understanding is the state of false belief. They don't have a theory of mind that accounts for actions driven by beliefs in conflict with reality. And really, who lacking that will ever be able to navigate the human world?
Karen Joy Fowler
#61. To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#62. So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.
Cathy Guisewite
#63. The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#64. Beliefs will nourish or poison depending on their compatibility with reality.
Steve Maraboli
#65. There are some that even beg for the Chamber," she could hear Isaar saying in the back of her mind. "Soft minded fools or broken souls that would rather live a fabricated existence than deal with reality.
Charles Hash
#66. Living with reality is a very good trick. It gives you tremendous freedom and it changes the structure of molecules of your soul by living through reality because you don't expect anything anymore, which is a weird paradox.
Anthony Hopkins
#67. Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
Germaine Greer
#68. Dreams have a hard time surviving when confronted with reality.
Mathias Malzieu
#70. We've always been a bit out of touch with reality.
Jarvis Cocker
#71. If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.
Sidney Poitier
#74. Opinions are secondary when dealing with reality. They're subjective reflections.
Frederick Lenz
#75. Am I always in contact with Reality, or do I only pray when things have gone wrong, when there is a disturbance in the moments of my life?
Oswald Chambers
#76. She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become insubstantial in the face of the fiction she's been absorbed in.
Maggie O'Farrell
#77. I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.
Charlie Kaufman
#78. I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.
Norman Granz
#79. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way
my attention deficit disorder medicates itself.
Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to
make contact with reality after a day of making things up.
Nora Ephron
#80. Happiness is living in harmony with reality.
Na
#81. Our thoughts affect our agreement with reality, our story we tell ourselves. IF you want to change your story, start with your thoughts.
Tony Curl
#82. People's perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I'm basically just your average dork.
Art Alexakis
#83. When fiction collides with reality, it's time to get fired up. There are great stories being generated out there by real events and people-plenty of fuel for exciting fiction.
Gregory S. Lamb
#84. Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido.
Peter Shepherd
#85. When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
Oswald Chambers
#86. An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse is true - to the degree that this dichotomy has any truth - the artist begins with art, and through it arrives at reality.
Robert Motherwell
#87. What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.
Morley Safer
#88. Vision, Uncertainty, and Knowledge of Materials are inevitabilities that all artists must acknowledge and learn from: vision is always ahead of execution, knowledge of materials is your contact with reality, and uncertainty is a virtue.
David Bayles
#89. Life is not a race but a pace we need to maintain with reality.
Amit Abraham
#90. What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.
William Devane
#91. I'm losing touch with reality and I'm almost out of blow. It's such a fine line, I hate to see it go. Cocaine, runnin' all 'round my brain.
Jackson Browne
#93. Fiction, however, sometimes ensures disappointment with reality
Miguel Syjuco
#94. We usually think of ourselves as sitting the driver's seat, with ultimate control over the decisions we made and the direction our life takes; but, alas, this perception has more to do with our desires-with how we want to view ourselves-than with reality
Dan Ariely
#95. I don't deal with hypotheticals. I deal with reality.
Clarissa Ward
#96. The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
Alan Kay
#97. The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality ... [Whereas] the physicist's reality, whatever it may be, has few or none of the attributes which common sense ascribes instinctively to reality. A chair may be a collection of whirling electrons.
G.H. Hardy
#98. The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality.
Robert Greene
#99. I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.
Winston Churchill
#100. Arguing with reality it like trying to teach a cat to bark.
Byron Katie
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