The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. Votes: 3
Jean-Jacques RousseauA dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. Votes: 3
Colin PowellThe first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality. Votes: 2
Susanne Katherina LangerThe Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it. Votes: 2
Arthur DantoOnly reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair. Votes: 2
Alberto GiacomettiIf you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark. Votes: 2
Byron KatieSince we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. Votes: 1
Nikos KazantzakisTime and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire. Votes: 1
John DeweyWords have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. Votes: 1
Edgar Allan PoeI have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream. Votes: 1
Bruce SpringsteenWe live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. Votes: 1
Iris MurdochThere is no such thing as reality. Reality is what you make it.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellOur very awareness is the window upon which reality presents itself.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellPersonal power is the ability to enter into different planes of reality.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellIn my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means. Votes: 4 Loung Ung
Never get so fascinated by the extraordinary that you forget the ordinary. Votes: 5 Magdalen Nabb
When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say. Votes: 3 Mason Cooley
Whenever I feel like I'm getting too far away from where I need to be, I think about my sons and the legacy I have to leave for them - and it always brings me back to reality. Votes: 5 Dwyane Wade
I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think. Votes: 1 Naveen Andrews
Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects. Votes: 3 Ed Smith
Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality. Votes: 1 Nelson Mandela
When you get to experience something that is outside of your reality, it changes you. Votes: 1 Gisele Bundchen
On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality. Votes: 1 Candace Parker
Since coming to Congress in 1971, I have been fighting to help create an environment where the goals of the National Work and the Family Month can become a reality. Votes: 1 Charles B. Rangel
Transmit your vision emotionally by gaining credibility, demonstrating passion, establishing relationships and communicating a felt need. Transmit it logically by confronting reality, formulating strategy, accepting responsibility, celebrating victory and learning from defeat. Votes: 3 John C. Maxwell
We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains to experience the wonder of our existence. Votes: 3 Duane Elgin
Your thoughts create your reality. Your mind is more powerful than you know. Votes: 3 Neale Donald Walsch
Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself. Votes: 4 Stanislav Grof
Dream what you want! Start creating your own reality! Work hard for it and the rest will follow! Love and Blessings! Votes: 3 Logan Henderson
Your very existence is evidence of your innate creativity. In every moment you are co-creating your reality through your thoughts, your intentions, your words and your actions. Votes: 3 Deepak Chopra
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. Votes: 3 John McCain
Anyone who says there is not a change in weather patterns is denying reality. Votes: 3 Andrew Cuomo
Alone everything changes. Some might call it distorted reality but it's exactly the place I need to be. Votes: 3 Ellen Hopkins
What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two. Votes: 3 Yves Saint Laurent
There is a work that my father had started, a dream he had dreamt. I come to you today saying...allow me to turn that dream into reality Votes: 2 Rahul Gandhi
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. Votes: 4 Belva Davis
Dreams from 1991 are becoming reality. We will build good relations between nations and people. We will strive towards mutual respect and equality of every individual, sex, race and national or any other minority. Votes: 3 Janez Drnovsek
I had always dreamed of being an Olympian, and something clicked inside of me. I knew I had to move to Salt Lake City and make this dream a reality. Votes: 3 Brittany Bowe
Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame. Votes: 1 Umberto Eco
Bring your dreams to reality. Believe in yourself. You know you have what it takes, to make your dreams come true. Start now and dedicate yourself to success. Shoot for the stars and make it happen. Votes: 3 Mark F. LaMoure
Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog. Votes: 1 Robert Falcon Scott
In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies. Votes: 4 Chris Kattan
It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality. Votes: 2 Ellen Burstyn
Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. Votes: 2 Jack Welch
Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost. Votes: 5 M. Scott Peck
When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people. Votes: 3 Joey Skaggs
One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality. That is the subject that, if you have a brain in your head, is always dealt with in magic. The smarter the tricks you're doing, the more that' s an important thing. Votes: 3 Penn Jillette
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Votes: 1 Andy Warhol
People are always fighting reality until it's pushed down their throats. Votes: 3 Agnes Denes
In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality. Votes: 3 George Soros
The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia. Votes: 1 Schuyler Fisk
A lot of reality shows tend to harp on the negative. The person isn't pretty enough or can't sing well enough or maybe isn't even funny enough. Votes: 1 Bruce Nash
I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family... the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes. Votes: 3 Adriana Trigiani
There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast. Votes: 5 Pras Michel
And what's wrong with dimming the harsh reality of life a little, anyway? In essence, being alive is a bloody long and hard walk to death. Why not make it as pleasant along the way as you can? Votes: 3 Lucinda Riley
To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of the hidden reality. Votes: 3 Starhawk
Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace. Votes: 1 Daisaku Ikeda
Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality. Votes: 3 Lindsey Graham
Jesus is much more concerned about shaking your foundations, giving you an utterly alternative self image, world image, and God image, and thus reframing your entire reality. Mere inspiration can never do this. Votes: 1 Richard Rohr
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. Votes: 3 George Santayana
The Democrats have responded to the Republicans' lack of dealing with reality by truly not dealing with reality, either. Votes: 1 Lewis Black
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality. Votes: 3 Irving Howe
The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. Votes: 1 Richard Dawkins
Beyond all of this is something else, perfection; not just as an ideation, but as a living reality. Even though it may just be an idea for you, hold that idea in your mind. Votes: 3 Frederick Lenz
Once you start losing reality, when you start losing reality with yourself, sometimes people just get dizzy. Votes: 3 DJ Khaled
I'm losing touch with reality and I'm almost out of blow. It's such a fine line, I hate to see it go. Cocaine, runnin' all 'round my brain. Votes: 3 Jackson Browne
You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality. Votes: 1 Les Brown
You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality. Votes: 1 Les Brown
The real magic is in making the intangible idea, the creative impulse, manifest and live in our reality. Votes: 1 Mark Ryan
The world when I was 13 wasn't truly driven by tabloid magazines and social media and reality shows. I was able to have a little more of a private life. Votes: 3 LeAnn Rimes
Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies... Votes: 3 Eileen Chang
I shoot reality-based movies, and in actual locations, shooting them with a star is next to impossible. Votes: 3 Anurag Kashyap
Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon. Votes: 3 Brian Greene
All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is. Votes: 3 Gautama Buddha
I can understand the dilemma of growing up in a bubble, and then not knowing what to do when unemployment beckons and reality bursts in. Votes: 1 Jessie Cave
I mean, Iceland is Iceland. It can't do damage to anybody unless you're Icelandic. But the United States can drag down the entire western economy. And I think what we are seeing is simply a reflection of reality. This is not, I'm sorry, but this is not a AAA nation. Votes: 1 Mark Steyn
Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life. Votes: 3 Ben Affleck
I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things. Votes: 3 Tamara Mellon
So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality. Votes: 1 Daniel Keys Moran
We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that. Votes: 5 Amity Shlaes
Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites. Votes: 4 Anthony J. D'Angelo
Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality. Votes: 2 Alexis Carrel
The lives we live are a bit of a straight-hair vs. curly-hair thing. We often want what we don't have. In reality, it's not about better or worse; it's just perception. Votes: 1 Simon Sinek
We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness. Votes: 3 Alejandro Jodorowsky
I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them. Votes: 1 Alice Sebold
Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum entities like protons and electrons. Votes: 1 John Polkinghorne
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. Votes: 1 Amy Seimetz
For me they are no different, reality and dreams. Votes: 4 Alejandro Jodorowsky
Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. Votes: 1 Fran Lebowitz
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. Votes: 1 Ralph Marston
I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. Votes: 4 Lady Gaga
I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion. Votes: 4 Mike Mills
I can understand the dilemma of growing up in a bubble, and then not knowing what to do when unemployment beckons and reality bursts in. Votes: 1 Jessie Cave
I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions; between objectivity and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission. Votes: 3 Erich Fromm
Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Votes: 2 Tom Waits
I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction. Votes: 3 Oscar Wilde
I watch way too many VH1 reality shows like 'I Love Money' and 'Tough Love.' Votes: 2 Sterling Knight
The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. Votes: 2 Walter Benjamin
I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them. Votes: 1 Alice Sebold
Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs. Votes: 2 Robert Anton Wilson
When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth. Votes: 4 John Yarmuth
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. Votes: 1 Albert Camus
They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions. Votes: 1 Ethan A. Hitchcock
Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world. Votes: 1 Steven Pinker
I have a theory that I really want my kids to know - the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work. Votes: 1 Eric Bana
Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame. Votes: 1 Umberto Eco
Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites. Votes: 3 Anthony J. D'Angelo
Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check. Votes: 4 Taylor Hanson
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. Votes: 1 Rabindranath Tagore
Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities. Votes: 1 Leonard Susskind
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. Votes: 1 Marya Mannes
A lot of reality shows tend to harp on the negative. The person isn't pretty enough or can't sing well enough or maybe isn't even funny enough. Votes: 1 Bruce Nash
Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event. Votes: 1 Sylvester Stallone
Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets. Votes: 1 George Murray
When reality hurts, make sure to soar above the dream-stained sky! Votes: 3 Munia Khan
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. Votes: 1 Camille Paglia
When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life. Votes: 4 Joyce Carol Oates
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true. Votes: 2 Robert J. Ringer
Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement. Votes: 1 David Bohm
First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be. Votes: 1 Peter Nivio Zarlenga
Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death. Votes: 4 John Thorn
Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life. Votes: 3 Friedrich Nietzsche
I've seen a lot of my friends go through different reality shows, and they just get caught up in a lot of stagnant positions, unfortunately. Votes: 1 Will Champlin
When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls. Votes: 3 Michael Huffington
The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten. Votes: 2 Victor Hugo
The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love. Votes: 6 Hans Urs von Balthasar
The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology. Votes: 3 Salvatore J. Cordileone
Her love was too cold, like an anti-oven. That's called a freezer, and sometimes it burns food. She gave me heartburn, just like coffee, and it really woke me up to the reality of relationships. Votes: 3 Jarod Kintz
We have long honored those who gave their lives during the unfortunate reality of war. Votes: 4 Michael N. Castle
It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way. Votes: 2 Helen Mirren
Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited. Votes: 1 Gottfried Leibniz
Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life. Votes: 1 Don King
There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on. Votes: 3 George Clooney
Usually, if I'm yelling at the TV, I'm in a bar. If I'm by myself, and it's not a game, I often find myself scolding reality stars that can't hear me through the television set. Votes: 3 Ben Feldman
The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal. Votes: 3 Chris Hedges
Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the sex videos that lofted them into reality-TV notoriety. Once notoriety has warmed into familiarity, celebrity itself becomes one big 'Brady Bunch' reunion, or a therapy session with Dr. Drew. Votes: 1 James Wolcott
Yes, there is an outside world, and yes, there is an objective reality, but in moving through this world, we constantly apply unconscious filter mechanisms, and in doing so, we unknowingly construct our own individual world, which is our "reality tunnel. Votes: 3 Thomas Metzinger
I don't like the negative of reality tv - the 'you're no good, so you have to leave, I choose you, but I thought you really loved me.' It's all about how bad people are and I just hate that. I like Pimp my Ride where someone is helping somebody. Votes: 1 Bob Saget
The lives we live are a bit of a straight-hair vs. curly-hair thing. We often want what we don't have. In reality, it's not about better or worse; it's just perception. Votes: 1 Simon Sinek
There are so many cameras. There is so much instant media attention, not just for celebrities, but for normal people that get thrust in the reality world. Votes: 3 Lorenzo Lamas
I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based. Votes: 1 Mel Gibson
In the middle of a play, I go crazy and don't realize what I'm doing. I'll snap back to reality and I realize, 'Hey, I just ripped that boy's helmet off,' or, 'I'm over here twisting this guy's knee. Votes: 1 Brian Bosworth
Religion and science look at reality differently. Votes: 1 Robert Lanza
Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better. Votes: 3 John P. Kotter
Startups are not the best choice for work-life balance, and that's sort of just the sad reality. Votes: 6 Sam Altman
When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset. Votes: 3 Wallace Shawn
If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility. Votes: 3 Robert Musil
Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction. Votes: 3 Paul Auster
No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. Votes: 4 Edward Sapir
The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition. Votes: 4 Kim Young-sam
For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially if he be, in addition, a diplomat or financier in contact with the 'realities' of the present day, is only too ready to believe literature is an intellectual game which is destined to gradually be abandoned as time goes on. Votes: 3 Marcel Proust
Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values. Votes: 1 Abraham Maslow
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. Votes: 1 Napoleon Hill
Your thoughts create reality. The most pragmatic way to create world peace is to use your power of visualization. Think Peace, Act Peace, Spread Peace, Imagine Peace. Your thoughts will soon cover the planet. The most important thing is to believe in your power. It works. Votes: 3 Yoko Ono
Imagination, persistence, perseverance, and trust transform dreams into reality. Votes: 3 Debasish Mridha
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams. Votes: 4 Charles Baudelaire
Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening. Votes: 8 Joyce Meyer
If you still have to talk about Ultimate Reality See how it manifests itself nakedly in Every thing! Votes: 4 Frederick Franck
If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality. By learning from science about aspects of reality where its understanding may be more advanced, I believe that Buddhism enriches its own worldview. Votes: 4 Dalai Lama
Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world. Votes: 6 Steven Pinker
This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is. Votes: 3 Morris Chestnut
When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history. Votes: 1 Carson Daly
I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy. Votes: 3 Shawn Johnson