Quotes on Reality

I don't choose to make low-budget films. But that is the reality of surviving in the Japanese film industry. However, the trade off is, since we're working on small budgets, we have freedom. You can't buy this freedom with money. With this freedom, I think there are an infinite number of possibilities.

Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I'm convinced that 'the right people' are the ones who have three virtues in common - humility, hunger, and people smarts.

Writing is fantasizing about what your film will be like. Shooting is reality. And the post-production is recovering the idea you had.

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Books should be right up there with exercise and diet as something that don't just entertain us but heal us. They tell us we are not alone and fix the pieces of us that can be shattered by reality. They are teachers, and they are friends, and we should never contemplate a world - or a life - without them.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.

Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.

A Western-style democracy in Afghanistan is a dream. I don't see that as a reality anytime soon. But I think some form of representative political process is not that far-fetched.

I have travelled enough internationally to know and accept the reality that, overwhelmingly, people are well disposed to Australia but in truth know very little about it. In particular, people know hardly anything about Australian politics.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher's or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself - Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

That's what art is for me. It helps you maintain hope by giving you the ability to either create outside your reality, or to describe your reality.

As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.