Inspiring Reality Quotes to Help You Embrace Life - page 207

Beware of the anger of the body. Master the body. Let it serve truth. Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth. Beware of the anger of the mind. Master your thoughts. Let them serve truth.
Beware of the anger of the body. Master the body. Let it serve truth. Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth. Beware of the anger of the mind. Master your thoughts. Let them serve truth.
Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.
 Eliezer Yudkowsky
Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off.
 Mary Lou Retton
Abstraction and realism work best together.
 Ken Danby
A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness.
 Allen Ginsberg
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
 Yogi Berra
No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.
My brother, who's my acting coach, he can be like, "That sucked, Chloe. You need to pick that up. You're not thinking right now. Seriously, think." It's a good harsh reality, because my family keeps me very grounded.
 Chloe Grace Moretz
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.
No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.
 Howard Gardner
A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
 Stephen Brennan
Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.
 Annie Dillard
When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.
In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have gone far beyond biblical literalism. It's time we did the same for homophobia.
 William Sloane Coffin
Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
 Nido R Qubein
One's concentration as a performer must remain centered on the action of which one is a part. For it is in truth only one's own concentration on the imagined reality of the role that can force the audience's attention to that same place.
 Rick Dees
You\'ve no idea how wonderful toilet paper is until it\'s taken away from you by an unfeeling universe. I think it\'s the defining characteristic of human civilization, the ability to manufacture something decent to wipe your ass on.
You've no idea how wonderful toilet paper is until it's taken away from you by an unfeeling universe. I think it's the defining characteristic of human civilization, the ability to manufacture something decent to wipe your ass on.
 Peter F. Hamilton
Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
 Irvin D. Yalom