Reality Quotes · Page 260

Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality.

— Eliyahu Goldratt

The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never…

— Bill McKibben

My head was spinning, I had never seen blood. Four years old, this don't feel like love.

— LL Cool J

I don't want to live with only dreams, I want to be living my dreams - I want them to be my…

— Mina Deanna

The moon does not think to be reflected, nor does the water think to reflect, in the Hirosawa Pond.

— Yamaoka Tesshu

I think that one should recognize reality even when one doesn't like it; indeed, especially when one doesn't like it.

— Charlie Munger

I really think that's what music and art is about. It's another way to connect to the divine. It's a real pure…

— Kathy Mattea

You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much

— Betty Friedan

“Then one day, from the window of a car (the destination of that journey is now forgotten), I saw a billboard by…

— Alberto Manguel

You will reply that reality hasn't the slightest need to be of interest. And I'll answer you that reality may avoid the…

— Jorge Luis Borges

So far in facing this huge [peak oil] challenge, our political/economic system seems unable to cope with reality. We are forced to…

— Madeleine Bunting

To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get your emotions going. To be enthusiastic every day and as…

— Jim Valvano

The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it…

— Sigmund Freud

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it.…

— Fran Lebowitz

We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a…

— John Trudell

You know, in China, they say, come on over, we'll build the plant for you. Of course, then they steal your patents,…

— Debbie Stabenow

“To clarify, things that fight against reality are those things we tend not to accept and therefore never let go.”

— Alexis G. Roldan

The question is, when does the therapeutic community end and the reality kick back in Then, what do you do with them

— James Johnson

In School, we learn our lesson first then we take the test… In REAL life, we take the test first then we…

— Bernajoy Vaal

I cannot give you a formula for success , but I can give you a formula for failure-It is TRYING TO PLEASE EVERYBODY.

— KayGee

Compared to dreams, reality can be truly cruel. But it can also come up with beautiful surprises.

— Nujood Ali

The White House has something in common with the rest of America, and that is disdain for Congress. It is hard to…

— Claire McCaskill

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

— Margaret Cho

“She toyed around with his smiles and emotions, till they actually turned plastic. And then, She changed the toy…”

— self

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows…

— Marcel Proust

“I think i should get love inked on my skin. Maybe that's the only way i am destined to keep it.”

— Anjum Choudhary

When you choose your attitude toward life, you can affect reality by making it better for you

— Paulo Coelho

In Latin America, people want you to write beautiful melodies and words. But there are also songs that do well because they…

— Maluma

In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality.

— Anonymous

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy…

— Laurie Anderson

The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world.

— Ted Olson

Behind the cliche that you create your own reality there is a shadow: if you don't create your own reality, it will…

— Anonymous

“Words don’t have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess.”

— Shannon L. Alder

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even…

— Baltasar Gracian

Know what I like most when I dream? When I get the chance to be with someone who is impossible to be…

— Anonymous

I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

You'll not change yourself for anyone but you'll automatically changed when you are addicted to someone.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory…

— Ray Kurzweil

Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

— Ayn Rand

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

— Romain Gary