L. Ron Hubbard Quotes

That's what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.

I'm only good at transitions in—not transitions out.

The world is changing and people don't like change.

In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.

A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.

Knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history

We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.

The pace of change is so great, there is always something else going on. What that says to me is that you have to have strategic vision and peripheral vision. Strategic vision is the ability to look ahead and peripheral vision is the ability to look around, and both are important.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

Waking up in TRUTH is so much better than living in a lie.

Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing, it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better.

It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.

To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most direct, an upfront representation of the world it stood in for or stood up for or stood its ground against.

I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die.

The world has changed around me. I've been me, and continuously being me in a constant, steadfast way.

The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

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

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

Truth carries with it confrontation.

What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to ring true. True to what? True to life as the reader knows life to be or, it may be, feels life to be. And I mean the adult, the grown-up reader. Such a reader has outgrown fairy tales, and we do not want the fantastic and the impossible. So I say to you that a novel must stand up to the adult tests of reality.

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.