Facing Reality Quotes

That was how I was going to get things back to normal-by working. I never thought I would use the words “working” and “normal” in the same sentence, but I'll try anything to avoid facing reality.

I believe in facing reality. But only because I don't like turning my back on it.

All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Faith is facing reality without being discouraged by it.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

The art of managing and leading comes down to a simple thing. Determining and facing reality about people, situations, products, and then acting decisively and quickly on that reality. Think how many times we have procrastinated, hoped it would get better. Most of the mistakes you've made have been through not being willing to face into it, straight in the mirror that reality you find, then taking action on it. That's all managing is, defining and acting. Not hoping, not waiting fro the next plan. Not rethinking it. Getting on with it. Doing it. Defining and doing it.

Just like Sept. 11, only with nuclear weapons this time, that's the threat. I think that is the threat. I think it's just facing reality. It's not a happy reality, but it's reality and if you don't deal with it, it will become even more unpleasant.

There is a big difference between hurt and harm. We all hurt sometimes in facing hard truths, but it makes us grow. It can be the source of huge growth. That is not harmful. Harm is when you damage someone. Facing reality is usually not a damaging experience, even though it can hurt.

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality square on but taking nothing on its face. It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

I can't make you understand because you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of a lion and an utter lack of imagination and I envy you both of those qualities. You'll never mind facing realities and you'll never want to escape from them as I do.

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.