Joe Kaeser Quotes

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

It takes a long time to realize a situation is for real, and then you finally face it.

Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.

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

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

We need realism to deal with reality.

How hard it is to accept the truth. How hard it is

We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always.

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

You recognize the truth because sometimes it's hard to swallow, but if you hold it in your mouth, refusing to eat it, you are going to choke.

We must face the facts as we find them, not as we may wish them.

You have to live in reality: not in what might happen but what is happening.

We need to understand where our issues and challenges are and confront them head on. Because you can fix anything if you know there's a problem.

That's reality, it's accessibility. People are used to seeing me like that for the last year, I think, ... To avoid it is avoidance. We're not going to avoid things.

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.

Don't fight a fact, deal with it.

If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow, and so you will happily conclude your mortal career. Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business.

One and all have to face reality now.

Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.

Facing facts is always empowering.

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.

When it comes to men, deal with them as they are, not how you’d like them to be.

First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.