Top 1200 Perception Is Reality Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images — as, according to Proust, most ambitious of voluntary prisoners, one can't possess the present but one can possessthe past.

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.

The goal is not to simulate reality right now by going crazy. The goal is to prepare for reality by going slowly

This superficial blurring has something to do with the incapacity I have just mentioned. I can make no statement about reality clearer than my own relationship to reality; and this has a great deal to do with imprecision, uncertainty, transience, incompleteness, or whatever. But this doesn't explain the pictures. At best it explains what led to their being painted.

You watch these reality shows and say, 'Oh, I would do that, except for eating all the gross stuff.' These reality shows are like everyone's little guilty pleasure. To have an opportunity to be on one, why not? Anybody who says, 'No, I don't want to be on one' is kind of lying in the back of their heads.

History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.

There's a difference between reality TV and reality. There's a big difference.

It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus.

The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.

The real danger to the world's resistance movements is the attempt to distort reality and to place the blame on the resistance groups' actions without allowing them to portray their perspective, thus ignoring the reality of the occupation and the siege, like the situation in occupied Palestine.

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality

There was a perception that the emerging-market problems aren't over and concern that may Brazil devalue.

The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.

When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.

For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have a religious experience all nature is capable of revealing itself as cosmic sacrality.

When I lived in England my perception of what people thought of me was largely formed by the media.

People have ignored me in the past, thinking that I probably had an attitude. And I couldn't break that perception.

Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.

Reality shows are a lot of fun, especially dance reality shows.

Fantasy is seductive and much more wonderful than reality, but you can't take it to the bank. It's always an escape. And if used as an escape, as in attending a movie or a show for a circumscribed period of time, it's fine. When it starts to become undifferentiated from reality, it leads to big trouble.

It's maybe a better thought to change the perception of an accent than to avoid it all together.

I don't want to do animation to mimic reality. I want to push reality.

We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.

I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

Every nervous system creates its own "reality," minute by minute - we live inside a "bubble" of neural abstractions which we identify with reality. You can make this neurological fact into conscious experience, and you will never be bored or depressed again.

The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.

I believe that reality shows are extremely important for the talented. Contestants get a platform where they can prove their talent. If they are good at what they do, their life is made. Personally, reality shows have helped me get fame and money.

It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self--ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality--the truth that I recognize in suffering as I don't in comfort and happiness--that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way.

The most positive action we can take about the past is to change our perception of it.

Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

My perception has changed from thinking if someone's in jail they're supposed to be, to there's a lot of factors that's not that simple.

In problem-posing education, people develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with which and in which they find themselves; they come to see the world not as a static reality, but as a reality in process, in transformation.

I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

There's a collective knowing that a dimension of reality exists beyond the material plane, and that sense of knowing is causing a mystical resurgence on the planet today. It's not just children who are looking for a missing piece. It is a very mature outlook to question the nature of our reality.

Those who dissolve their body of perception completely are absorbed into what we would call nirvana.

There is still a perception that the way women are isn't necessarily what you need for the powerhouse start-ups.

Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

A large part of my career is due to perception, what people think what I am or should be.

I believe that a smile is the attribute of a positive attitude, both for yourself and the perception of others.

Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man.

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!

I kind of talk about songwriting in the sense that it's really not my job to try to state hard truths. I'm not out to say this is what truth is, this is what's false, this is reality, this is not reality. What I prefer is to try to create a space where truth can move.

Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.

I like being behind the camera because I can control perception and what people see.

Organize your reality according to your strength; organize your reality according to your playfulness; according to your dreams; according to your joy; according to your hopes - and then you can help those who organize their reality according to their fears.

The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.

There was never a perception that I was second-class relative to boys. That gave me confidence.

Everyone's trying to get a reality show, and we're just trying to avoid accidentally being on a reality show.

The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept apart—idea of thing, reality of thing—the wider the width, the deeper the depth, the thicker and darker the darkness.

Enlightenment, meditation is really a shift in perception. It's not a thing that you go and do or become, since you're already that.

We chose to do a reality show with my husband Dean McDermott, because we wanted to give the reality of our situation, not to kind of mask it if the things got kind of uncomfortable. So we pretty much put it all out there and I think the viewers will appreciate that.

Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.

I have learned already that you have to work against people's perception as they want to box you in very quickly.

The reality is that we have one of lowest voter turnouts of any major country on earth because so many people have given up on the political process. The reality is that there has been trillions of dollars of wealth going from the middle class in the last 30 years to the top 1/10th of 1 percent.

When I was a kid, I had no perception whatever that science fiction was supposed to be a boys' club.