Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes

I know I am delusional at times, but I'm not completely-out-of-touch delusional.

Well, I think that people are smart enough to understand the difference between a movie and real life.

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment.

We must all learn how to separate reality from fantasy.

The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake about that, you're dead. You know, you're out on the street corner. You think there's no bus coming. You step out, you're dead.

Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.

Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people we encounter, the circumstances in our lives, or ourselves. What we can do is reduce our subjectivity - what I call 'I see, therefore it is.'

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

Reality: What a concept!

The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see.

People like things that make sense to them; your perspective is your reality.

I don't make many mental mistakes. Yeah, I'm smarter than I look.

Don’t see the mind for more than it is, but don’t misread it for all that it can be.

As we practice, we begin to know the difference between our fantasy and reality.