Reality Quotes

Don't let other people's opinions distort your reality. Be true to yourself. Be bold in pursuing your dreams. Be unapologetically you!

~ Steve Maraboli

Every guy seems nice until he’s not.

~ Claire Lazebnik

There's also a possibility that the landlord is in there right now, wearing women's undergarments. Or a drug addict is inside stealing jewelry.Or a boatload of recent Chinese immigrants without a television watching Russia play Finland in hockey and placing bets over beer. You have no idea what's behind that door. You can't just pick the options within your field of vision. Reality comes from everywhere. At best, you can narrow down the likelihoods. But in the end, it's not a matter of deduction. It's a matter of fact. One bullet will kill you if you're stupid or unlucky. So at least don't be stupid

~ Derek B. Miller

There is no brutality and cruelty in battles and wars, in reality only the outcome matters.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

People used to play with toys.Now the toys play with them.

~ Idries Shah

Reality isn’t the most pleasant of atmospheres, Lieutenant. But we like to think we’re engineered for it. It’s a pretty fine piece of engineering, the kind an engineer can respect. Drag in an obsession and reality can’t tolerate it. Something has to give; if reality goes, your fine piece of engineering is left with nothing to operate on. Nothing it was designed to operate on. So it operates badly. So kick the obsession out; start functioning the way you were designed to function.

~ Theodore Sturgeon

Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.

~ Elon Musk

The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains.

~ Mark Skousen

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

~ Steve Jobs

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

~ Chris Chocola

There isn't an amount of money you could offer me to do reality TV. I would rather get my job back on the building site. Or I could own a construction business. Maybe I could retire to my house in Long Island and take up painting, like Captain Beefheart. A crazy recluse: I like that idea.

~ Dave Gahan

It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait.

~ Emily Procter

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

~ Jean Piaget

A person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to express his attitude toward the reality surrounding him, be it a landscape or a state; to capture his state of mind at a given instant; to leave - as he thinks at that moment - a trace on the earth.

~ Joseph Brodsky

The enemies of acting are mood and attitude and other general homogenized disruptive entities. Whereas acting is about action - doing - and unless you can figure out a way to craft in an imaginative reality to which you don't submit, you're going to be out of control. You'll flip out. The job is to be surprised.

~ William Hurt

The reality is I'm not this person with this driving 'get it done' attitude.

~ Greg Giraldo

People's attitude seems to be that if you don't have a television, you're not connected to reality - somehow you're not in reality. It's quite interesting, because I suspect that possibly it's the reverse.

~ Jodhi May

Everything we do these days - our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates of reality, our fidelity to cults of technology and limitless growth, our narcissistic national exceptionalism - all of this propels us toward the realm where souls abandon all hope.

~ James Howard Kunstler

Hope is the denial of reality.

~ Margaret Weis

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

People ask me all the time, 'Are you fed up with reality TV?' At the end of the day, it can affect my career in the sense that the more reality shows there are, the less scripted dramas out there, but I can't ever really knock them. I started on 'Popstars,' which was a reality talent show. I have respect for them.

~ Josh Henderson

On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.

~ Vicente Fox

I've learned how to look at things and not judge them, but respect them and use it in a way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and respect their reality.

~ Doug E. Fresh

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

~ Malala Yousafzai

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

~ Tupac Shakur

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

~ Frida Kahlo

Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.

~ Queen Latifah

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

~ Marya Mannes

Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tell the difference between nocturnal hallucinations and reality.

~ Siri Hustvedt

Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?

~ Simon Sinek

If you ask me, there's nothing more incredible than a woman who's in charge of her own destiny - and working daily to make her dreams a reality.

~ Ivanka Trump

It's not my job to dream your dreams. It's my job to make your dreams become a reality.

~ Blanche Lincoln

To wear dreams on one's feet is to begin to give a reality to one's dreams.

~ Roger Vivier

I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.

~ Jean Paul Gaultier

For me they are no different, reality and dreams.

~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

I will teach people not only how to identify their goals and dreams, but subsequently give them the tools to make those dreams a reality.

~ Jillian Michaels

To my mind, 'Dear Brutus' stands halfway between Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 'Into the Woods'. Like them, it is a play about enchantment and disillusion, dreams and reality.

~ Michael Dirda

Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.

~ John Battelle

Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams.

~ Hal Sparks

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

~ James A. Michener