Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.
Every rep I did on chin-ups, on squats with 500 pounds, I never said, to myself, 'Oh, my God, another rep. ' I said, 'Yes, another rep, because that will make my dream turn into a reality. '
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.
By downplaying clear targets and frameworks,. . . the Prime Minister is ignoring calls from UK companies who want a clear framework to operate within now. There has been a lot of discussion about the false choice between targets and technologies, but the reality is that without both we cannot achieve either.
Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than the years of dogged preparation or the unwavering grace displayed during a string of losses. Applause, then, never bore much relation to the reality of my life as an astronaut, which was not all about, or even mostly about, flying around in space.
Donald Trump is a man who was the star of a network reality show that helped to create templates for the abysmally biased way in which women and people of color, in particular women of color, have been treated in reality TV for the last decade and a half.
As an actor, the only thing we can do is play the truth at that moment. Because at any point in time if you play the future, or you play that you know something that the audience does not know, it kills the illusion of reality.
I think "God" is an off-putting word. I don't think there's a name for this. I think it's a presence that is best for us, but unfortunately, it can't intervene if we don't ask it, and religion has us talking to the wall because the god that religion is selling isn't the reality.
Regardless of what we think we know and should happen the reality is that a lot of stock action is random. Therefore, money management is crucial if you want to be successful as a trader. To me, it`s the cornerstone of both making a living at trading and building wealth.
. . . that is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it.
Cory Doctorow is a fast and furious storyteller who gets all the details of alternate reality gaming right, while offering a startling, new vision of how these games might play out in the high-stakes context of a terrorist attack. Little Brother is a brilliant novel with a bold argument: hackers and gamers might just be our country's best hope for the future.
You can learn from getting to watch some of your favourite actors and actresses on-set. It's fascinating. It's amazing how professional someone like Eva Green is about work. It's inspiring. In reality, they're human beings who are really good at their job. So, that's really exciting to be around.
When we touch the foundation of the reality of the good news of God, we will never bother Him anymore with little personal complaints.
The picture is the imitation and converted reality of the goods, in short, an indirect substitute for reality.
Reality is inside the skull.
Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.
Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.
There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.