Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.

Players perform best when their minds are clear.

When you're losing, there's that survival instinct. But when you're handling success, people think it's easier, and they think losing's harder. But handling success, to me, always creates more issues. Are you in touch with reality? With perception?

If you're asking me as the President, would I understand reality, I do.

I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know whether I am asleep or awake--whether the environment and laws which affect me are external and permanent, or the transitory products of my own brain.

If we run a hundred miles an hour to the other end of the continent in order to get away from the obstacle, we find the very same problem waiting for us when we arrive. It just keeps returning with new names, forms, manifestations until we learn whatever it has to teach us about where we are separating ourselves from reality, how we are pulling back instead of opening up, closing down instead of allowing ourselves to experience fully whatever we encounter, without hesitating or retreating into ourselves.

I drink wine on stage to sort of loosen my grip on reality a little.

Reality is the only obstacle to happiness.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.

What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.

I happen to live in reality. The name of my city is Literalville. And it makes a lot of people uncomfortable.

Logic doesn't apply to the real world.

We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.

Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality

I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they get out of touch with reality, and their whole thought and management process becomes abstract and disconnected.

Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I not dream.

Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.

You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don't exist.

To talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university.

I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not.