#reality

There had been a long period of time during which he remembered being very happy. But things change. People change. Change was one of the most inevitable laws of nature, exacting its toll on people's lives. Mistakes are made, regrets form, and all that was left were repercussions that made something as simple as rising from the bed seem almost laborious. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#life #reality #realization #change

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture. ↗

— Morley Safer

#culture #manipulative #momentary #popular #popular culture

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#intelligence

Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#bigger #control #fun #girlfriend #had

The same stimuli in the world can be inducing very different experiences internally and it's probably based on a single change in a gene. What I am doing is pulling the gene forward and imaging and doing behavioural tests to understand what that difference is and how reality can be constructed so differently. ↗

— David Eagleman

#based #behavioural #change #constructed #difference

The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment. ↗

— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

#amendment #ban #coverage #defense #department

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#come #domination #impose #instrument #love

Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#change #inspirational #life #mindset #motivational

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement. ↗

— Edward Albee

#involvement #people #reality #really #theater

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#reality #third #third world #world