Most people live with pleasant illusions, but leaders must…

It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.

— Felix Bloch

The things Nas' Illmatic was saying were sometimes hard realities but it was done on such a high level, I felt I could point…

— Erik Parker

“All around the world, the hard realities of a warming world are crashing up against the brutal logic of austerity, revealing just how untenable…

— Naomi Klein

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's…

— George Eliot

Leaders dig into their business to learn painful realities rather than peaceful illusion.

— Orrin Woodward

Images can make realities out of people and struggles - the reality we give them. Images really matter.

— Trevor Paglen

What we, thanks to Jung, call "synchronicity" (coincidence on steroids), Buddhists have long known as "the interpenetration of realities." Whether it's a natural law…

— Tom Robbins

What we think of as physical reality is an intermingling of appropriate realities, a fluid massive consciousness in which each of us exists independently…

— Gary Zukav

“Civilisation consists in giving something a name that doesn't belong to it and then dreaming over the result. And the false name joined to…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Being and not being are not two different realities, but two different aspects of the same reality.”

— Raheel Farooq

“Remember, your audience is aware of the realities, but they would like to hear it from you.”

— Virender Kapoor

...there's no rule book or game plan when it comes to the grim realities of our lives.

— Simone Elkeles

For Jesus, heaven and hell were present realities. Ways of living we can enter into here and now. He talked very little of the…

— Rob Bell

I think that once I started connecting dots of where my food was coming from and the reality of that, as opposed to maybe…

— Austin Aries

Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or…

— William James