Inventing Quote by Ben Okri Download Open image “When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.” — Ben Okri ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inventing Reality
What you see is filtered through your beliefs. You rarely see "reality." You see your version of it. — Joe Vitale Copy Share Image
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing.… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them. One way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, we are also living the stories we planted - knowingly or unknowingly - in ourselves. We live the stories that either… — Ben Okri Copy Share
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
The earliest storytellers were magi, seers, bards, griots, shamans. They were, it would seem, old as time, and as terrifying to gaze upon as… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Fire is one of my temperaments. It is behind all my work... Fire is a chemical presence. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and… — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary, but in the same… — Brittany Murphy Copy Share Image
Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden,… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
I'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict. — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
You have to be closer to religious origins -- the generation of the 20's was truly secular in that it still knew its theology… — Ann Douglas Copy Share Image
It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tub by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at drying up… — Denis Parsons Burkitt Copy Share Image
As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun. — Mitchel Resnick Copy Share Image
“To those who hadn't been around Violet long, nothing would have seemed unusual, but those who knew her well knew that when she tied… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
