Action Quote by Thomas Nagel

Nothing is real until you walk out on stage.

— Frank Vincent

In a story, nothing is real until it is acted upon.

— William Kittredge

Stages of life: 1) You believe in Santa Claus. 2) You don't believe in Santa Claus. 3) You are Santa Claus. 4) You look like Santa Claus.

— Anonymous

The real is only one realization of the possible.

— Ilya Prigogine

“Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to be”

— Sigmund Freud

Life is lived on levels and arrived at in stages.

— Edwin Louis Cole

All appearances are real and negatio; sophistical: All reality must be sensation.

— Immanuel Kant

It should be quite clear, then, that there are no criteria to be laid down in general for distinguishing the real from the not…

— J. L. Austin

“Reality is non-directional, layered, and potential- all things at once and non-real in the sense that real is an unknown, so "real" is undefined…

— Laren Grey Umphlett

Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance,…

— Anton Chekhov

If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to…

— Leo Tolstoy

As long as one accepts 'time' tacitly as such he is dreaming a drea, not living a life.

— Wei Wu Wei