Top 1200 Facing Reality Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

In terms of so-called fly-on-the-wall documentaries, there's a claim that the camera is a transparent window into a pre-existing reality. What really is happening is that the film crew and the subjects are collaborating to simulate a reality in which they pretend the camera is not present.

I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.

Cultures have gone down and rebuilt again and I'm sure we're all facing the same level of extinction.

The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.

You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.

Did your parents build knows you a swing facing a wall when you were a kid?

Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century.

Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.

The great thing about The Simple Life is that it's a reality show but not based on my reality, ... It has nothing to do with my life or my home or my relationships or anything. I'm not open to anything like that.

If, at any moment, reality gets dull or boring, our phone offers something more pleasurable, more productive and even more educational than whatever reality gives us.

This whole notion that the robot has to declare nuclear war is one part of the discussion, but it may not be reality. Reality is, maybe it can empathize to a far greater degree than we can and experience a way wider range of emotions. So, why not have a robot that can do that?

Unfortunately, I've been fighting injuries recently more than facing rivals in the ring.

I think what makes Narnia a magical place is that it offers escapism - escapism from a world that is so different from the reality known by the characters and the reality known by the fans.

We have artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D-printing, robotics and nanotechnology that have changed the face of modern medicine. It is essential for Indian doctors to familiarise themselves with the latest developments to be able to control technology and not the other way around.

Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

There's not enough psychedelic stuff on TV. I want the world to be a bit weirder than it is. I hate reality, so I hate reality TV. But I love Columbo.

When a writer is already stretching the bounds of reality by writing within a science fiction or fantasy setting, that writer must realize that excessive coincidence makes the fictional reality the writer is creating less 'real.'

The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.

I don't know how you defeat an insurgency unless you have some handle on the number of people that you are facing.

One accurate way to describe abortion is subtle infanticide. That is: child-killing done in a way that the people don't recognize it as child-killing. That reality is why the word abortion exists. Some words are created to cloak reality the same way procedures are created to cloak reality. "Abortion" is cloaked child-killing

My comedy is about, lift yourself. See reality. Change the reality if you don't like it. But if you can't, then deal with things as they are because crying about it isn't going to change anything.

One of the fastest ways to find the solution to an issue or challenge you are facing is to ask the right questions.

You must still stand up and say no when society is facing a backslide or a moment of danger.

I'm not trying to say that we're facing or looking at a likely repeat of history. It would be great if we were.

For the gift of life, the only true thanks was in living fully, and facing death with honor.

Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality ... The true subject matter of religion is not our own little souls, but the Eternal God and His whole mysterious purpose, and our solemn responsibility to Him.

I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first.

Recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic must address inequities facing Native Americans.

Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you.

It's far more daunting than bowling to Ricky Ponting or facing Shane Warne

I think Muslims in particular are facing similar obstacles African Americans did, historically.

As human beings, we're given intelligence. This is how we make our way through this reality, how we manifest our reality clearly and coherently.

The greatest single challenge facing our globalised world is to combat and eradicate its disparities.

The most important thing to me is facing people head on and focusing on not disappointing the public.

Maybe it's because I was too much reality, but I'm not interested in seeing too much reality anymore. I'd rather watch a Dean Martin concert and let the world go by.

Virtual reality started for me in sort of an unusual place. It was the 1970s. I got into the field very young: I was seven years old. And the tool that I used to access virtual reality was the Evel Knievel stunt cycle.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.

He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.

What one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous - that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego.

From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

But some of these theories are so bold that they can clash with reality: they are the testable theories of science. And when they clash, then we know that there is a reality; something that can inform us that our ideas are mistaken.

I actually do see rock and roll as pop music. I think the distinction I was making was that I was going out of my way to have a very consistent approach to production, where nothing kind of punctures the reality - or, I guess, the fake reality - of the album and what you're listening to from beginning to end.

President Biden's budget priorities are out of step with the challenges facing our country.

We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.

We added Medicare Part D to a system facing bankruptcy and gave no thought to means testing it.

My favorite sexual position is when the girl is facing Mecca and I am fighting off a wolf.

I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is imperfect and circumscribed.

Maybe every two films you need to do documentary to tell what you really want to tell and not be limited by the medium. With documentary you don't create the reality you have to hunt the reality.

We have a number of difficulties facing our nation, but I believe fatherlessness is right at the top of the list.

There is only one reality - the reality knowable to reason. And if man does not choose to perceive it, there is nothing else for him to perceive; if it is not of this world that he is conscious, then he is not conscious at all

After I was on reality TV, after that whole phase of my life was over, I really didn't want to do anything reality TV-related ever again.

By facing our challenges and overcoming them, we grow stronger, wiser, and more compassionate.

Standing facing the door in an elevator and pretending you're the only person there, no matter how crowded it is.

The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.

The struggles I'm facing, The chances I'm taking, Sometimes might knock me down, But no, I'm not breaking.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

Ideological thinking becomes emancipated from the reality that we perceive with our five senses, and insists on a 'truer' reality concealed behind all perceptible things, dominating them from this place of concealment and requiring a sixth sense that enables us to become aware of it.

Isn’t it sad that so often it takes facing death to appreciate life and each other fully?

A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it.