Larry Page Quotes

When you srgue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.

...if reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith..... But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.

Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.

I think the reality is important anyway.

I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality.

Everyone needs reality to punch them in the face every once in a while. Keeps you on guard.

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.

Sometimes it seems like if you open up the door to reality and invite it in, it will just come flowing.

Knowing that you are living in a dreamworld is very liberating, because it gives you the option of waking up.

Reality has a way of asserting itself.

You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.

Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that.

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.

Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth.

Whether we like it or not, each of us is constrained by limits on what we can do and feel. To ignore these limits leads to denial and eventually to failure. To achieve excellence, we must first understand the reality of the everyday, with all its demands

Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.

Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

I think that one should recognize reality even when one doesn't like it; indeed, especially when one doesn't like it.

An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury trials and congressional committees, are on the up-and-up. That they are intended for the benefit of the members. The reality is that they are designed to keep everyone in line.

You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.