“The reality of today, different as it is from the reality of my society one hundred years ago, is and can be important if we have the energy and the inclination to challenge it, to go out and engage with its peculiarities, with the things that we do not understand. The real danger is the tendency to retreat into the obvious, the tendency to be frightened by the richness of the world and to clutch what we always have understood.” IfsWorldYearsImportantDifferentRealRealityTodayEnergyChallengesDangerUnderstoodHundredYears AgoObviousTendenciesFrightenedRetreatInclinationRichnessClutch Book:There Was a Country: A Memoir Source: There Was a Country: A Memoir
“Hundreds of thousands of years ago a very powerful civilization lived in what we now call North America. They congregated around power places - interdimensional vortexes where it is very easy to shift from one plane of reality to another.” YearsRealityAmericaEasyPowerfulBuddhismCivilizationYears AgoPlanesVery PowerfulNorth AmericaVortex Author:Frederick Lenz
“The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are aggressive beings, easily given to violence; that we get along together because we must more than because we want to, and that the brotherhood of man is about as far from reality today as it was two thousand years ago; that reason's realm is small; that we never have been and never shall be created equal; that if the human being is perfectible, he has so far exhibited few symptoms - all are considerations of man from which space tends to protect us.” IfsMenWantYearsHumansHas BeensTwoReasonRealityTodayTogetherGivenHuman BeingsSpaceCitiesViolenceCitizensThousandProtectEqualYears AgoInventionRealmsConsiderationAggressiveBrotherhoodThousand YearsSymptomsBrotherhood Of Man Author:Robert Ardrey
“A man today has to live with the reality of today. He can no longer live with the reality of 100 years ago. The world's changing so fast. Unless you are prepared to adapt every day, then you have a problem, because the world's not stopping.” MenWorldYearsProblemRealityTodayYears AgoPreparedStopping Author:Mario Testino
“I see everything as creative material. If I pick up a shell of a song that I wrote 10 years ago, all that matters is the reality of that material as it's living today.” IfsYearsMatterRealityTodaySongCreativeMaterialsPicksYears AgoShells Author:Antony Hegarty
“I actually met Carrie Fisher a couple of years ago. When I told her that she was my first crush, she insisted that we get married and have a reality show about it. I'm lucky to have made it out of that weekend without getting married.” YearsFirstsMadeShowsRealityCoupleMetsLuckyMarriedYears AgoMade ItCrushCarrieWeekendGetting MarriedReality ShowsFirst Crush Author:Joe Manganiello
“We have laid the foundation for a better life. Things that were unimaginable a few years ago have become everyday reality. I belong to the generation of leaders for whom the achievement of democracy was the defining challenge.” YearsRealityChallengesLeaderDemocracyGenerationsAchievementYears AgoFoundationEverydayBetter LifeDefiningUnimaginable Author:Nelson Mandela
“Few years ago, I said something about the Academy being very white male, which is the reality, and I was slashed to pieces by the media.” YearsSaidRealityWhitePiecesMediaYears AgoMalesAcademy Author:Julie Delpy
“The reality is that Qaddafi has been trying to talk to us about his weapons system for years, and we ignored him. The Libyans even came to me about two years ago and offered me a chance to go through their facilities because they couldn't get anybody's attention here.” TryingYearsHas BeensTwoRealityChanceAttentionWeaponsYears AgoTwo YearsIgnoredFacilityTwo Years Ago Author:Seymour Hersh
“A thousand years ago, scientists who wondered about consciousness and the nature of reality were burned at the stake. We still haven't recovered from that and it's left us with a culture that no longer investigates consciousness, except on the fringes.” YearsStillsRealityCultureLeftConsciousnessHavensThousandYears AgoScientistStakesBurnedThousand YearsFringe Author:David O. Russell
“I remember many years ago, I asked [Dalai Lama] about exile and he said: "Well, exile is good because it's brought me and my people closer to reality," and reality is almost a shrine before which he sits. Exile brings us up against the wall and forces us to rise to the challenge of the moment.” PeopleYearsWellsSaidMomentsRealityRememberForceChallengesWallYears AgoExileShrinesLamaDalai Author:Pico Iyer
“A little more than a hundred years ago, "Tel Aviv" was not a city. It was a title of a novel written by an author. The "Return to Zion" was a name of another novel. There was a bookshelf. There was no country. There was no state. There was no nation. There was no physical Jewish reality in this country.” YearsLittlesCountryStatesRealityNamesNationsCitiesNovelWrittenReturnHundredYears AgoTitlesBookshelvesZion Author:Amos Oz
“The kids now, on "Junior," we educate the parents and it's quite a fascinating turnaround. You can just see the parents thinking, "S - , 10 years ago I was eating so bad, and now I'm seeing it through the eyes of my kids at 9, 10 years of age." There is an upside to that side of reality TV. It's not all negative.” ThinkingYearsRealityEyeKidsAgeParentSidesSeeingTvsEatingNegativeYears AgoFascinatingEducateJuniorsThrough The EyesReality TvTurnaround Author:Gordon Ramsay
“I came from the old world of gastronomy. Many years ago I walked into the kitchens of the Hotel St George and I feel very fortunate that I worked for chefs that were behind their stoves. I saw that world of gastronomy. I can sit here today and say that I saw the golden age of gastronomy. It's gone, it's gone. It's never going to have that anymore, once the accountants get involved the romance fades. That's the reality.” WorldFeelsYearsI CanRealityAgeTodayRomanceBehindsGoneSawsInvolvedYears AgoGoldenFortunateKitchenHotelFadesChefGet InvolvedAccountantsGolden AgeOld WorldStoves Author:Marco Pierre White
“Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of the Islamic world - wrote reams of commentary [after 9/11]. Their articles were all about Islam saving Aristotle and the zero, which medieval Muslim scholars had done more than eight hundred years ago; about Islam being a religion of peace and tolerance, not the slightest bit violent. These were fairy tales, nothing to do with the real world I knew.” PeopleKnowsWorldYearsRealDoneRealityNextBitsStupidHundredYears AgoIslamEightToleranceViolentTalesSavingFairyIslamicZeroReal WorldArticlesScholarFairy TaleMedievalCommentaryAnalystsPeace And Tolerance Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali
“One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago.” KnowsYearsKindRealityRealizingFiveOur LivesPerspectiveMonthsYears AgoFive YearsSaddest Author:Jonathan Carroll
“People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.” PeopleGivingYearsTwoDifferentRealityThreeEventsTaughtHundredYears AgoWitnessAccountingPraxis Book:Styxx Source: Styxx