Adam Shankman Quotes

Everyone thinks the fashion business is so glamorous. It's completely the opposite.

No matter how big you are in the business, at the end of the day it's still work.

If you let the reality of the business side get to you, it can turn you, and that's not good at all.

Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.

Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality.

They want to criticize you, let them criticize and do not worry. Just be transparent with your people and tell them this is the reality.

The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.

I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo

She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.

It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.

Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.

Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream

We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own stories of our peoples. We have got to have the ugly facts in order to protect us from the official view of reality. Otherwise, we are squeezed empty and filled with what other people want us to think and feel and experience.

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

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

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.

If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything.

It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.

Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.

You cannot be naïve about evil. You cannot be naïve to the reality that there are human beings and human situations which have totally identified with the dark side of reality. They are malicious. Realism teaches you to put up appropriate boundaries so that people can't do any more evil than possible. But that doesn't mean you do evil back to them.

People say things like "it wasn't supposed to go this way" and "this isn't what I wanted." They're just making noise. There's no such thing as "supposed to," and what you want doesn't matter. All that matters is what happened.

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Just as if you do a mash-up of reality from the point of view of African Americans in this country, you're going to end up with something that will say, "This is Black Lives Matter." It's not that people necessarily have started out from that premise. But if you're looking at reality, that will be the result because that is reality.