Dealing with Reality Quotes

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. It cannot be replaced by one's power to deceive. The self-confidence of a scientist and the self-confidence of a con man are not interchangeable states, and do not come from the same psychological universe. The success of a man who deals with reality augments his self-confidence. The success of a con man augments his panic.

You can't conquer reality by running away from it.

The truth - you've got to deal with it or it will kill you bit by bit.

I really don't deal with hypotheticals.

If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality.

Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.

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

It's better to live with a sad truth than with all the happy progress talk you get up here in the North.

I know I'm going to send my three kids off to college someday. I know my parents will pass away someday. It's one thing to say, 'I'll be able to deal with that day when it comes,' and it's another thing to find yourself at that day, dealing with it.

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.

This gentleman feels that all the members of Congress should have access to all the information which is in the hands of officials in the executive branch who deal with foreign affairs. He states that this is so in England and France. I think the gentleman must be mistaken, for it would be "agin" human nature for so many people to know a secret and keep it! Much of the information which comes to officials dealing with foreign affairs is uncorroborated, but valuable as background material. The sources of this information would soon dry up if it became the property of too many people. It seems to me that in foreign affairs, as in all matters of government, one must deal with reality, recognize human nature as it is and set up machinery to deal with real situations, not those which we wish existed.

I deal with what "is," not with what I wish was or not with what was or used to be.

He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it.

Reality is the only place you can deal from. If you're still worrying about the way things should be, you haven't even approached the starting line.

I avoided reality for most of my life. But once you deal with it, it's kind of cool.

Reality is always so obstructive.

No matter what's in your head, you go up into any hospital, up to a terminal ward and it'll smack you right back into reality that, "Hey man, whatever you're dealing with, if it's heavy on your heart and head, you're gonna have to let that go, because there, some people are dealing with unavoidable situations that they can't let go." And then they eventually let those go, so, I mean, that's helpful.