Top 1200 Perception Is Reality Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality.

For all reality TV, and all the viewers of reality TV, just be entertained. Don't invest your feelings, your heart, your soul into reality TV. It is entertainment. And that's all that it should be.

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

Virtual reality is a self-created form of chosen reality. Therefore it exists.

Today we cannot assume people, even all Christians, understand the Bible's implicit, underlying view of reality. We have to dig it out and show it to people, including Christians, and ask them to "see reality as this" rather than "as that" - where "that" refers to any number of unbiblical ideas about reality.

I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

The themes that run through all my work are that consciousness is the ultimate reality; and that by understanding consciousness, you understand everything about yourself, about perception, about creativity, about behavior, about relationships. By understanding consciousness, you have the ability to create anything in your world. And you have the ability to influence also the collective consciousness to not only bring about personal healing, but social transformation, and ultimately healing our planet, which happens to be extremely wounded.

Hype tends to precede the reality in biotech, but the reality does follow. Usually.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

If the reality is not ideal, resist and refuse the reality and change it no matter how strong it is!

Until now, physical theories have been regarded as merely models with approximately describe the reality of nature. As the models improve, so the fit between theory and reality gets closer. Some physicists are now claiming that supergravity is the reality, that the model and the real world are in mathematically perfect accord.

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

It's hard to write a song about reality because reality doesn't rhyme.

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

Virtual reality and augmented reality will change the way we shop.

Inner reality is certainly more important than the outer reality.

It is far easier to be entertained by a reality TV than to participate in our own reality.

If what we regard as real depends on our theory, how can we make reality the basis of our philosophy? But we cannot distinguish what is real about the universe without a theory. It makes no sense to ask if it corresponds to reality, because we do not know what reality is independent of a theory.

Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality.

Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.

The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the demands on contemporary children for maturity, for participating in competitive sports, for early academic achievement, and for protecting themselves against adults who might do them harm. While children might be able to cope with any one of those demands taken singly, taken together they often exceed children's adaptive capacity.

Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. We can know that reality is good just as it is, because when we argue with it, we experience tension and frustration. We don't feel natural or balanced. When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.

Reality - the way that is, exactly as it is, in every moment - is always kind. It's our story about reality that blurs our vision, obscures what's true, and leads us to believe that there is injustice in the world. I sometimes say that you move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.

Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality.

Since consciousness is the basis of all reality, any shift in consciousness changes every aspect of our reality. Reality is created by consciousness differentiating into cognition, moods, emotions, perceptions, behavior, speech, social interactions, environment, interaction with the forces of nature, and biology. As consciousness evolves, these different aspects of consciousness also change.

That's just me wanting that supernatural tool to tell a story and also not wanting to be restricted by reality, with how we're telling a tale, because we are a heightened reality on Hannibal. There is a larger-than-life quality to the storytelling when it gets into particulars. I like the idea of being able to dismiss reality, depending on if we can sell it as part of the story.

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.

The one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know.

What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.

Being in the ring became my reality, and, in my reality, I'd think I was someone special.

Never face reality unless your reality is just the way you want it to be.

I was awake and this was reality, the new reality of nothing--and worse, of having to continue to exist.

If God is a reality, and the soul is a reality, and you are an immortal being, what are you doing with your Bible shut?

I do try to write in ways that reflect reality, and I think that reality is rarely simple.

We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived.

In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.

The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."

The real world just doesn’t offer up as easily the carefully designed pleasures, the thrilling challenges, and the powerful social bonding afforded by virtual environments. Reality doesn’t motivate us as effectively. Reality isn’t engineered to maximize our potential. Reality wasn’t designed from the bottom up to make us happy.

What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.

For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybody who existed in 1605. Much more. There's nobody who can compete with Don Quixote or with Hamlet. So in the end we have the reality of the book as the reality of the world and the reality of history.

Without arts programmes there's only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.

I see too many people who jump into spirituality as a shelter to hide from reality. It doesn't work that way. The way it works is for the spirit behind you to follow you wherever you go, like a loyal soldier, and show you how to face up to adversity. If you can't face adversity, you will get locked into a new age perception that everything is fine when it isn't. That makes you vulnerable to being exploited by the person who comes along and says, "I am a psychic. I have studied with this guy or that guy, and I know what you should do".

I think we start suffering as soon as we come out of the womb. I think that people tend to stereotype. When they think of suffering, they think of abuse - physical abuse, emotional abuse, poverty, that kind of thing. There's different levels of suffering. I don't think that it has to do with how much money you have - if you were raised in the ghetto or the Hamptons. For me it's more about perception: self-perception and how you perceive the world.

When you make a film that is based in reality, reality will come up all around it.

I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.

I create my own reality. And I'm not the only one. My reality is becoming more prominent.

Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps in--the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

The terrorists, they have the wrong perception. They believe that the other group is trying to destroy them as a religion, as a civilization. So they want to abolish us, to kill us before we can kill them. And the antiterrorist may think very much the same way - that these are terrorists and they are trying to eliminate us, so we have to eliminate them first. Both sides are motivated by fear, by anger, and by wrong perception.

There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.

The picture is the imitation and converted reality of the goods, in short, an indirect substitute for reality.

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

I believe in the invisible. I do not believe in the definitive reality of things around us. For me, reality is the intuition and the imagination and the quiet voice inside my head that says: isn't that extraordinary? The things in our lives are the shadows of reality, just as we ourselves are shadows.

I think that nudity is beautiful. Sometimes it can be awful, but when it's beautiful? Cinema is the art about reality; it's art from reality. In French we say l'art de la realite. You show reality, so you have to show bodies.

You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.

We want people to go to the movies. But the reality is that this is a digital world and we have to adapt to that reality.

I believe art is a way to attune to what reality is, which is a weird reality.