Deals Quote by Laurence Gonzales Download Open image “To deal with reality you must first recognize it as such.” — Laurence Gonzales ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deals Firsts Reality
Recognize reality even when you don't like it-especially when you don't like it. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Never face reality unless your reality is just the way you want it to be. — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you. — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
What you see is filtered through your beliefs. You rarely see "reality." You see your version of it. — Joe Vitale Copy Share Image
You have to face reality some time. But there's no sense in facing it until somebody forces you to. — Billy Beane Copy Share Image
Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it. — Laurence Gonzales Copy Share Image
“I cast myself across the land in search of enlightenment, and here is what I found: that matter and energy are one continuous flow.… — Laurence Gonzales Copy Share Image
“How, I wondered, can we wake up for this amazing journey that is so quickly ended? How can we experience the live performance of our own lives? To be in the moment is the ultimate act of redemption. To live with an unquenchable curiosity that sweeps away our mental models and makes everything new is the ultimate triumph we can… — Laurence Gonzales Copy Share
The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have. — Laurence Gonzales Copy Share Image
We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We… — Laurence Gonzales Copy Share Image
The maddening thing for someone with a Western scientific turn of mind is that it’s not what’s in your pack that separates the quick… — Laurence Gonzales Copy Share Image
“What does brace mean, anyway? Brace. Such an odd word. It comes from the Latin brachium, meaning arm. It means, as its heart, to… — Laurence Gonzales Copy Share Image
Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not… — Laurence Gonzales Copy Share Image
“With the illusion that we have dominion over the earth we conclude we have nothing to fear.” — Laurence Gonzales Copy Share Image
As you run out of options and energy you must become resigned to your plight. Like it or not you must make a new… — Laurence Gonzales Copy Share Image
We think we believe what we know, but we only truly believe what we feel. — Laurence Gonzales Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
When you reach that competing point, when you reach that time when the gun is about to go off, everyone's level is pretty much… — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries or nationalist identity. We're going to be up against challenges that we can barely fathom at this point. So how we embrace them and deal with them will define a great many things about where we… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
As a professional athlete and someone who has spent almost his entire life in boxing, not a day goes by when I don't think… — Oscar De La Hoya Copy Share Image
Okay, so I'll admit I'm curious. Big deal. We both know what that leads to. Dead cat. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
I don't really resent being on the red carpet as much as I do having to deal with the paparazzi. — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly. So you learn. You put things in perspective. You pull your energies together. You change. You go forward. My fellow Americans, I have a great deal that I want to accomplish with you and for you over the next two… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share