Reality Gap Quotes

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

One stands, in fact, in awe of the Constitution of the United States, though it is an idea and not quite a reality.

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.

The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept apart—idea of thing, reality of thing—the wider the width, the deeper the depth, the thicker and darker the darkness.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.

Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it.

Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about your product is not always the same as what your customers really think about your product.

Truthiness is what you want the facts to be as opposed to what the facts are. What feels like the right answer as opposed to what reality will support.

In many ways we are a dream for people, not a reality. That counts in your mind. It shows how much you can touch people, and as much as you can try to give those people somehow it is nothing compared to what they live in their own mind, in their dreams, for you.

My mother isn't crazy. She simply has a harder time than most reconciling her reality with everyone else's reality.

That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.

Existing economics is a theoretical system which floats in the air and which bears little relation to what happens in the real world.

I've got enough miles under my belt to know that whatever you envision in your mind, even if it comes true, will only keep a shape in the most general way.

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

Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case. This was the working of the will. This was what gave the world purpose and direction. Not what was there but what was not.

What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.

The England I write about doesn't strike me as the real one.

The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.

The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.