Best reality & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer.”

Ifs May Shows Dream Reality Suffering Literature Compromise American Dream Best Work Tainted Scott Fitzgerald

Author:Azar Nafisi

“It is within the family that children learn the values that will guide them for the rest of their lives. It is within the family that they form their earliest relationships, learn to communicate with others and interact with the world around them. It is within the family that the notion of human rights becomes a reality lived on a daily basis. If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.”

Ifs World Humans Children Reality Form Values Nations Rights Shapes Bases Notion Human Rights Communicate Guides Tolerance Translate Equity Family Life

Author:Kofi Annan

“If I can go through what I've been through and do a television show with my son and then be a boy from the hood making records for the people I make records for, that's reality.”

People Ifs I Can Shows Reality Boys Records Television Son My Son Hood Television Shows

Author:Master P

“If you are strong enough as a couple, reality shows can be a good thing for the relationship.”

Ifs Enough Shows Reality Strong Couple Good Things Strong Enough Reality Shows

Author:Giuliana Rancic

“I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.”

People Ifs Reality Able Fiction Remains Fiction And Reality

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“What solidarity we do find exists despite the society, against all its realities, as an unending struggle between the innate decency of man and the innate indecency of the society. Can we imagine how men would behave if this decency could find full release, if society earned the respect, even the love of the individual?”

Ifs Men Reality Individual Struggle Imagine Activism Despite Release Behave Solidarity Innate Decency Unending

Book:The Murray Bookchin Reader

Source: The Murray Bookchin Reader

“If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer ... We are in the business of reproducing reality from nothing. We are the biggest liars in the world, seeking truth.”

Ifs World Writing Reality Seeking Bored Liars Seeking Truth Reproducing

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.”

Ifs Life Giving Looks Self Use Reality Beautiful Success Behinds Fronts Example Huge Misery Vanity Hiding Behind You Self Absorbed Peacock

Author:Pope Francis

“I feel like a new person. I learned how to deal with people when I wasn't a football player. I always wondered how they'd react to me, if they'd respect me. I found out I have other attributes that I like-and that others like. The injury made me a lot more mature. I have a better grasp of reality in life. I'm more patient and giving. I'm a lot closer to my family and more team oriented. I'm so much stronger emotionally. I have proven to myself that I can overcome the most dreaded injury in football. It's almost like dying and realizing life has been given back to me. I can't wait to play.”

“We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are condemning ourselves. Sure, we can pretend to stay true to ourselves, but if you want to talk about reality, all of that is completely trivial if this life is an island and He's the only pilot with a plane and a flight plan.”

Ifs Thinking Want Self Reality Life Is Christ Plans Flight This Life Planes Islands Staying Pilots Stay True Condemning Personal Freedom Self Will

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at least, it gives you the language to talk about them. But at the same time, if a scenario is completely disconnected from reality, it's not all that interesting.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Reality Language Interesting Math Physics Compelling Scenarios Really Cool Entry Disconnected

Author:Randall Munroe

“If you're a global company you are going to have jobs overseas. The reality is if we start taxing those jobs at a rate that makes them noncompetitive in those markets, the reality is that we're going to lose business.”

Ifs Reality Jobs Loses Company Rate

Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify things to make ourselves look better in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. Then, if what we did wasn't really very admirable, we tend to forget that it ever happened. A normal human being's grasp on reality is very tenuous at best. Our imaginary lives are usually much nicer.”

Ifs Humans Looks Reality Eye Remember Human Beings Forget Half Happened Normal Bottom Imaginary Admirable Imaginary Life

Book:Polgara the Sorceress

Source: Polgara the Sorceress

“If you want to move through a virtual reality it’s called a video game, it’s been around forever.”

Ifs Want Reality Moving Games Forever Video Virtual Reality

Author:James Cameron

“If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.”

Ifs Believe Doe Real Reality Challenges Struggle Sea Ocean Sail Sailing Make Believe Sailing And The Sea Life Or Death Sailing And Wind Sailing And Love

Author:Morgan Freeman

“If God is a reality, and the soul is a reality, and you are an immortal being, what are you doing with your Bible shut?”

Ifs Soul Reality Immortal

Book:Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration

Source: Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration

“If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.”

Ifs Mean Shows Reality Viewers Reality Shows Realness

Author:Omari Hardwick

“I like to invest as a performer in the director's vision and then bring a sense of reality to whatever I'm doing, whether it's comedy or whether it's drama, and trust that they're going to tell me if something's reading as funny or if it's reading as dramatic or reading in the right tone.”

Ifs Reality Reading Vision Comedy Drama Directors Dramatic Tone Performers

Author:Amy Seimetz

“If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both. . . . The mind and the world are opposites, and vision arises where they meet. When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.”

Ifs World Mind Use Reality Understanding Vision Study Opposites Arise Transparent True Understanding True Vision

Author:Bodhidharma

“If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.”

Ifs Mind Use Reality Study

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Have you ever considered that your perception of reality could be wrong? If you haven't, this is a pretty good sign that it is.”

Ifs Inspirational Reality Havens Perception Perception Reality

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“The sad fact is that we're not educated to be aware and therefore able to question the reality created by our thinking. We don't realize that we must take responsibility for our thoughts to find out if they are really true, and then set aside or at least acknowledge those that are simply opinion and bias. We don't recognize that most thoughts are ultimately judgments, and that the truth of any judgment is how that judgment makes us feel.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Facts Reality Able Realizing Responsibility Opinion Judgment Educated Acknowledge Bias Our Thoughts Taking Responsibility Really True

Book:Inside-Out Healing

Source: Inside-Out Healing

“[T]ake the war on drugs. The average American says, "The war on drugs has been beneficial." The rest of us see reality. This war has destroyed thousands of Americans. It is also a pretext for government agents to rob innocent people in airports and on the highways - they seize and confiscate large amounts of cash and say to their victims: "Sue us if you don't like it." And more and more judges, politicians, intelligence agents, and law-enforcement officers are on the take - as dependent on the drug-war largess as the drug lords themselves.”

“The aliens on this planet are also attempting to clone or replicate the human form artificially. Their original form, being humanoid, cannot pass the field that was established around the Earth. But if they can clone or cybernetically change their forms, it may help their designs. This is why virtual reality, cybernetics, cloning, and nanotechnology are in vogue today.”

“There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.”

Ifs Problem Reality Mindfulness No Problem

Author:Barbara Coloroso

“The gap between the rich and poor is growing among and within most nations. The political and social effects of unequal location of energy and other mineral resources are acute. Population numbers continue to climb. The global environment shows signs of widespread deterioration. Both natural and social environments are increasingly vulnerable to catastrophic disturbances... There may, however, be a cheering challenge in the possibility that out of its struggle with these realities the human race may move a bit nearer to behaving as if it were indeed one family.”

“Ultimately people don't watch shows because of how realistic they are. They watch them because of the same dramatic elements that have always made stories interesting. And fundamentally if those elements don't work, no amount of reality is going to be enough to keep people watching a show.”

People Ifs Made Enough Stories Shows Reality Interesting Watches Amount Elements Dramatic Realistic

Author:Michael Loceff

“The reality is you've got to be yourself. You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.”

People Ifs Reality Views Honest Willing Who You Are Being Honest Being Yourself Be Who You Are

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“It's television. The reality of it is, if you go on the boards and people are saying, "I saw that coming," or "This is lame," or "I can't believe they're doing this again..." Having been one of those people myself, I know better, and try to avoid it.”

People Ifs Knows Trying Believe I Can Reality Saws Television Goes On Boards Lame

Author:Damon Lindelof

“We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.”

Ifs Needs Real Ends Reality Our Lives Growing Blood Cold Connections Strangest Secret

Book:The Principles of Psychology

Source: The Principles of Psychology

“The activity at this very moment must be the only thing that matters, to which one is fully given. If one is concentrated, it matters little what one is doing. The important, as well as the unimportant things, assume a new dimension of reality, because they have one's full attention.”

Ifs Wells Littles Important Matter Moments Reality Given Attention Activity Assuming Dimensions Concentration Unimportant Things That Matter Only Thing That Matters Unimportant Things

Book:THE ART OF LOVING

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction. * * * A name "fast anchored in the deep abyss of time" is like a star twinkling in the firmament, cold, silent, distant, but eternal and sublime; and our transmitting one to posterity is as if we should contemplate our translation to the skies.”

Ifs Should Mind Feelings Reality Names Stars Sky Cold Fame Eternal Silent Delicate Contemplating Solitary Sublime Abyss Abstraction Translations Posterity Firmament Twinkling

Author:William Hazlitt

“Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph.”

Ifs Reality Essentials Reflection Mirrors Aim Photograph Caught Drawing Colour Accurate Realism

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like - but truer than the literal truth.”

Ifs May Reality Truth Lying Longing Literal Deviation

Book:Van Gogh and his art

Source: Van Gogh and his art

“I think all of our experience with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein teaches us that diplomacy has very little chance of working unless it is clear to him that if diplomacy does not work, that the threatened reality of force is there.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Doe Reality Force President Chance Teach Clear Threatened Saddam Diplomacy Hussein

Author:Tony Blair

“You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are.”

Ifs Knows Needs Trying Mean Reality

Author:Alan Watts

“But we are not going to be able to survive on this limited planet if the population keeps on growing: there isn't going to be anything left.”

Ifs Reality Able Left Growing Planets Population

Author:Prince Philip

“An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse is true - to the degree that this dichotomy has any truth - the artist begins with art, and through it arrives at reality.”

Ifs Art Ends Reality Artist Degrees Odd Assumption Unconscious Contradiction Converses Dichotomy Layman

Author:Robert Motherwell

“Practice by drawing things large, as if equal in representation and reality. In small drawings every large weakness is easily hidden; in the large, the smallest weakness is easily seen.”

Ifs Reality Practice Equal Weakness Drawing Smallest Representation

Author:Leon Battista Alberti

“Oh, I wonder if I will ever feel the burst of birth-joy, that knowing that the indescribable, joyous thing that has wooed and wond me has passed through my life and produced one atom of the great reality.”

Ifs Feels Reality Joy Wonder Knowing Birth Atoms Joyous Indescribable

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“Ask almost anybody if they think the climate?s changed in the last couple of decades and they will all say ?yes? and give you lots of examples.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Reality Lasts Asks Example Changed Couple Climate Decades

Author:James Lovelock

“Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything ? and just sit still and watch.”

Ifs Littles Stills Real Reality Watches Learning Woods Realism Patches

Author:Lauren Hutton

“The overarching factor to me is if we can't be kind to each other, we won't be kind to the planet.”

Ifs Kind Reality Planets Factors Be Kind

Author:Bob Brown

“I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock which I feel and which makes me escape from reality... I need a point of departure, even if it's only a speck of dust or a flash of light.”

Ifs Needs Feels Reality Light Effects Dust Shock Flash Departure Specks

Author:Joan Miro

“I'm really creating abstract shapes and relationships that work together. They come together and give the illusion of reality, but they're really abstract shapes. If you look at individual shapes, they aren't the shape of anything, but together they give you the illusion of hills and sun and flowers.”

Ifs Giving Looks Reality Together Individual Sun Flower Shapes Creating Illusion Hills Abstract Working Together

Author:John Newman

“We should be active leaders in the fight for civil liberties which adequately reflect present social realities. Furthermore the left as a movement must appropriate the green agenda. Sustainability has to become the foundation of all our pursuits. This movement is my dream and vision. The left remains strong in Malta, but stronger it will become if we have the courage to unite and dream.”

“If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.”

Ifs Way Wells Reality Perception Perception Reality

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences we call reality springs.”

Ifs Should Littles Art Reality Form Spring Bases Abstract Short Lived

Author:Eugene J. Martin

“The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for those realities.”

Ifs Reality Possibility Future Responsible Accountability Great Future Future Possibilities

Author:Gifford Pinchot

“If the Creator were to bestow a new set of senses upon us, or slightly remodel the present ones, leaving all the rest of nature unchanged, we should never doubt we were in another world, and so in strict reality we should be, just as if all the world besides our senses were changed.”

Ifs World Should Reality Nature Doubt Changed Leaving Creator Senses Strict Another World

Book:John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

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