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It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.
It's just a reality of the business model. People are outsourcing a lot more, and China has established a pretty good infrastructure.
The Beltway is waking up to the realities of Prsident Obam's budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far as the eye can see.
The difference between what people perceive and what's reality is that, like, I'm not actually shy. I'm just observant. I care a lot.
Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.
There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.
That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.
I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you.
I think we should know about candidates desires and views, but I think it would be a mistake to assume that they will become reality.
I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.
Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.
Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without him.
Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. Theyre about telling stories.
When I was very, very young - four, five, six - I could see inside people, their motives, their dreams, their apprehension of reality.
The true one of youth's love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities.
You want me to believe American evidence and don't want me to believe the indications that we have. We live here, this is our reality.
The reality is Hicks is facing an unfair justice system that is not tolerated anywhere else in the world, so where does that leave him
People who say that violence doesn't accomplish anything have not read history. I don't celebrate that reality, but there you have it.
[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.
We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.
The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.
I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't much of a reality.
You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.
Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success.
We'd like to think our consumers are listening. But in reality, the milder weather the last few days probably has a lot to do with it.
This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.
When we touch the foundation of the reality of the good news of God, we will never bother Him anymore with little personal complaints.
While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.
For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond them.
I went horseback riding and got a big chunk of horse manure kicked into my face. It has a way of slapping you right back into reality.
I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits at a distance and evaluates.
As soon as you raise a thought and begin to form an idea of it, you ruin the reality itself, because you then attach yourself to form.
In reality, I'm very restless, and I get bored very easily. It's the same with my career: I need to outperform myself with every film.
one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul
You visualize yourself as the person you want to be. You strive to make the ideal in your mind become a reality on the canvas of Time.
It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.
Writing is fantasizing about what your film will be like. Shooting is reality. And the post-production is recovering the idea you had.
Excuse me while I light my spliff, Good God I gotta take a lift, From reality I just cant drift, That's why I'm staying with this riff
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.
You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
[...] the inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race [...]
Some of the problem with IQ tests stems from the inescapable reality that human intelligence is staggeringly complex and multifaceted.
The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.
Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.
Meaningful work, not welfare, is every American's hope, and we have a continuing responsibility to make those hopes a lasting reality.
Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.
The lad who dreams of being a boxing champion or an admiral chooses reality. If the writer chooses the imaginary, he confuses the two.
There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion.