Reality Steve Quotes & Sayings

Steve Grand is the creator of what I think is the nearest approach to artificial life so far, and his first book, Creation: Life and How to Make It, is as interesting as you would expect. But he illuminates more than just the properties of life: his originality extends to matter itself and the very nature of reality. Not since David Deutsch's The Fabric of Reality have I encountered such a compelling invitation to think everything out afresh, from the bottom up. — Richard Dawkins

We hate to be cheering for high gas prices. The reality is that's what's happening. — Steve Miller

Dream your dream; and realize that you are more than just the dreamer, you are the point of origin for its reality. — Steve Maraboli

Even in the face of continued good news, Kerry clings to his message of gloom and doom, supporting it with twisted statistics. Kerry's complaints about a middle class squeeze are out of touch with the reality that home sales hit a record high last month, college tuition increases slowed and consumer confidence is rising. — Steve Schmidt

We primarily grow as human beings by discovering new truths about ourselves and our reality. — Steve Pavlina

Reality is not going to change with your perception of it. — Steve Hagen

Why would anyone want to awaken to the Reality that they're not even here in the first place? — Steve Hagen

Stop trying to explain yourself. People only understand things from their level of perception; within the parameters of their agreement with reality. Save your energy. — Steve Maraboli

Your dream is a reality that is waiting for you to materialize. Today is a new day! Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Learn from your past so that it can empower your present and propel you to greatness — Steve Maraboli

There is no religion
There is no reality or lack of reality
There is no start or finish
There is no me or you
There is only everything
And the only thing that is that reality
Is divinity itself
And it is all for the love of God. — Steve Vai

The biggest mistake we make in confusing a concept with Reality is in ... the separation of self and other. — Steve Hagen

The reality is that these cases are happening all the time. It's when they get out of control that you have a problem. — Steve Williams

The significance and influence of just one BNP councillor is far in excess of the council powers such an elected figure can, in reality, command. — Steve Blake

Liberation of mind is realising that we don't need to buy any story at all. It's realising that before our confused thought, there actually is Reality. We can see it. All we have to do it to fully engage in this moment as it has come to be. — Steve Hagen

If you run a business, if you are responsible for a lot of people, you come to grips with the reality that you have to have discipline. You have to protect the enterprise in order to take care of the employees. So, therefore, you can't be wasteful. You can't squander things, or you jeopardize other people. — Steve Wynn

The most important lesson to take away from allowing the minimum wage and unemployment benefit data to talk is that abstract notions of what is right, good and just should be examined from a concrete, operational point of view. A dose of reality is most edifying. — Steve Hanke

It won't be an issue. The area we're modifying will have more breakout space, but I don't think it exceeds 1,000 feet. It's space we already have in the building, the public lobby area, which, in reality, we use now for breakouts and breakfast. — Steve Olson

Of course people have insulted me ... that's just the reality of living a life in which you stand out. Does it bother me? No. Those people overestimate the weight I give their opinion. I'm just going to be me, unapologetically. You don't have to applaud, you don't have to cheer ... but I know you're watching. — Steve Maraboli

How do I shape my reality? I use wisdom and strategy to shift the possible to the probable ... Then, effort and consistency will bridge the probable to the inevitable. Success is a behavior ... I make sure my mindset and actions are working in alignment. — Steve Maraboli

Being close but feeling far, talking but not being heard, loving but not being loved, that is the painful reality of a dying relationship. — Steve Maraboli

When your actions are aligned with your dreams and goals, you become the point of origin for their reality. — Steve Maraboli

Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds. — Steve Young

You can't just wish change; you have to live the change in order for it to become a reality. — Steve Maraboli

As you get out and try to do things, you always find that in order to make an idea a reality, it goes through some changes. It doesn't always come out exactly like you envisioned it. — Steve Forbert

I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story. — Steve Toltz

The time has come to harness the blessed power within us and to use it to transcend from our current existence into a more empowered reality. — Steve Maraboli

We know who is out there as far as available quarterbacks, but in reality, no one would be more prepared or capable as a No. 2 at this point than Dan. He got more snaps in the preseason than any of our quarterbacks and continues to get better. — Steve Mariucci

One of the differences between real documentaries and reality television, besides the artificial construct of reality television, is that the people who are recruited to be on those shows, and the people who are interested in going on those shows, basically want to be famous. Or maybe they can win a million dollars or something. — Steve James

Your life is a print-out of your thoughts. — Steve Maraboli

Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes. — Steve Maraboli

You can move beyond the ego's perspective and see reality from the perspective of a higher consciousness. — Steve Pavlina

The wise will admire you. The wishful will envy you. The weak will hate you. This is the reality for those who dare to be epic. — Steve Maraboli

Anyone who ever bet against you was wrong. Don't let their opinion blind you from your reality. You were not meant to live their life; LIVE yours! — Steve Maraboli

cognitive scientists studying human perception agree: we don't experience objective reality; we experience a model of objective reality that our brain creates for us. — Steve Volk

I was never able to analyze my own performance that way I can now. I've realized why certain actors work. I think I'm very in control of what I do in there now. I know how to listen, how to make it real and how not to go to jokes, but to go for a sense of reality. — Steve Dildarian

When we see Reality, we are completely beyond the world of words and concepts. We experience what words cannot express, what ideas cannot contain, what speech cannot communicate. — Steve Hagen

There is nothing worse for the lying soul than the mirror of reality. — Steve Maraboli

If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there's a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is. — Steve Pavlina

Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance. — Steve Maraboli

Your opinion is not my reality. — Steve Maraboli

Right view is not a concept or belief. ... [It] is simply seeing Reality as it is, here and now, moment after moment[;] ... relying on bare attention ... before conceptual thought arises[;] ... relying on what we actually experience rather than on what we think. — Steve Hagen

Beliefs will nourish or poison depending on their compatibility with reality. — Steve Maraboli

We have to realize what we are. The range of what is human is vast, ranging from the saintly to the monstrous. When we speak of other human beings as if they somehow do not belong to our species, we ignore the reality of our very nature. — Steve Hagen

I will never let someone else's opinion define my reality. — Steve Maraboli

It's all about emotions, they rule us all. The way we perceive reality is linked to how happy or sad we are, it even affects our perception of time, so this is an emotional problem and I am unable to fathom it at all. — Steve Merrick

Your agreement with reality defines your life. — Steve Maraboli

In a social media age, it seems that everyone lives in their own reality and that when you give consideration to Newt Gingrich, he exists in an alternate reality, at some level, where the things he says are so diametrically opposed to the record. — Steve Schmidt

[A] view of the world is nothing more than a set of beliefs, a way to freeze the world in our mind. ... [T]his can never match Reality, ... because the world isn't frozen. — Steve Hagen

We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either. — Steve Ballmer

Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it. — Steve Maraboli

The impact of your vision, while quiet and ever present, will be astounding over time as it becomes a reality. — Steve Shallenberger

He had regrets, of course, but not so many that he would lose any sleep over them. Life surprised him now and then and he didn't much care for surprises, unless he was passing them out. But - what was to be done? You had to deal with the reality, he had learned that over the years, no matter how much you didn't like it — Steve Perry

John Kerry's campaign attacks on gas prices ignore the reality of Kerry's long record of supporting higher gas prices and blocking the president's comprehensive energy plan. — Steve Schmidt

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business. — Steve Jobs

You're doing your kids a disservice if they do get everything they want because that's not the way life's going to go, and I think kids have to have some reality. — Steve Carell

The law is where reality goes to die. — Steve Aylett

Words are the tools we use to express our reality. — Steve Maraboli

If you can transcend from the dark rut of disempowered thinking to the bright light of an empowered agreement with reality, you will see opportunities not barriers. You will see the finish line, not the hurdles. — Steve Maraboli

If there were a silent observer, Mirabelle would be seen as a carefree, happy girl who is preparing for a night on the town. But in reality, these activities are the physical manifestations of her stillness. — Steve Martin

I could see that others had confused her disorganized passion for volatility. In reality, she was a scrumptious mess; deliciously majestic. She was on her way to great things in this life. — Steve Maraboli

It is amazing how your life changes when you embrace the reality that you're better than the life you've settled for. — Steve Maraboli

The word 'monster' [monstrum] derives from 'demonstrare,' meaning to show or to demonstrate. Heresy and evolutionary change are thus mere intrusions into a homogenous perception of reality. My vocation, I decided, would be to make my life an example.

But of what? — Steve Abbott

Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality. — Steve Hagen

Don't let the evil actions of broken people define your view of our world! Don't be terrorized into a diluted, hopeless reality. — Steve Maraboli

Religion is the subjective experience. Science is the objective reality. To argue either is a ridiculous waste of time and energy. — Steve Maraboli

I've been approached many times to write all sorts of books about my past and my personal life. I get interest from people who want to do reality shows, and somebody just offered me a huge amount of money to write my spiritual memoirs. I'm just not interested. — Steve Vai

In reality, though, most of the time we don't choose the best option - we choose the first reasonable option, a strategy known as satisficing. — Steve Krug

The universe makes it possible. Your mindset makes it probable. Your action makes it reality. — Steve Maraboli

The core tenant of what I teach is there are no facts inside the building. When we come up with a new idea, we tend to slide into our own reality distortion field to convince ourselves and others. And that's not healthy. — Steve Blank

Steve has a reality distortion field." When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. "In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he's not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules. — Walter Isaacson

Don't let other people's opinions distort your reality. Be true to yourself. Be bold in pursuing your dreams. Be unapologetically you! — Steve Maraboli

A need for precision and perfection has always been an enemy of art, which is about coloring outside the lines. It is also an enemy of the reality that following Jesus is a journey, not an arrival. — Steve Stockman

You believe that you live in the
universe when in reality the universe lives in you — Steve Chandler

For most people, blaming others is a subconscious mechanism for avoiding accountability. In reality, the only thing in your way is YOU. — Steve Maraboli

Our beliefs act as lenses. These lenses can help us see things we can't otherwise see, but they can also block us from seeing parts of reality. — Steve Pavlina

Sometimes the memory of someone is better than the reality of them. — Steve Maraboli

Your beliefs about reality become your beliefs about yourself. — Steve Pavlina

Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'. — Steve Brown

Today, you have the opportunity to transcend from a disempowered mindset of existence to an empowered reality of purpose-driven living. Today is a new day that has been handed to you for shaping. You have the tools, now get out there and create a masterpiece. — Steve Maraboli

We have created a mindset in our society where everyone wants what they want when they want it. And if we don't get what we want when we want it, we feel ripped off. To make matters worse, we intensify our problems by continuously rehashing our woe-is-me story to the entire world. Whatever it is that has the potential to keep you from enjoying the day, understand that it's not the situation itself that is causing you to be unhappy. It's your thoughts and how you allow them to control you. It's what you choose to focus on that fuels your emotions and defines your reality. — Steve Rizzo

Consciousness divides Reality. It conceptualises it, packages it, and explains it to itself. Then in our ignorance, we think it's taking readings on things 'out there. — Steve Hagen

Far from being incompatible, politics and Christianity are, in reality, inseparable. What don't mix are Christianity and social apathy.
(p. 117) — Steve Chalke

Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours. — Steve Harvey

I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game. — Steve Sabol

Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality. — Steve Coogan

Faith is the poetry of our dreams; action is the builder of our reality. — Steve Maraboli

Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality. — Steve Allen

It's a risk-reward thing. If I do go out and try and play and get hurt again, then I'm definitely out. I've got no chance to go. If I'm ready, then great. It's getting better. I've been doing a lot more in the last couple of days. I've got a day off (on Wednesday) and then hope to come back in on Thursday and really see where I am at and test it out. Hopefully I'm going to play this weekend but, in reality, we'll see. — Steve Ralston

A good estimate is an estimate that provides a clear enough view of the project reality to allow the project leadership to make good decisions about how to control the project to hit its targets. — Steve McConnell

You will always define events in a manner which will validate your agreement with reality. — Steve Maraboli

How much longer will you sit back and wait for your dream to spontaneously come true? Too many days, weeks, months, and years have passed! Do not be unresponsive to your own dreams. Now, set a course of action that will lead to bringing your dream into reality. — Steve Maraboli

Normally, a view of the world is nothing more than a set of beliefs, a way to freeze the world in our minds. But this can never match Reality, simply because the world isn't frozen. Nevertheless we carry on as though the way we've frozen it in our minds is the way it actually is. — Steve Hagen

If you argue with reality, you will only cause yourself pain. However if you accept reality and build on it, the things you create will be durable, true, and healing. — Steve Maraboli

The reality is that the fewer children a congregation has, the more important an outreach ministry for children and families like Vacation Bible School is. — Dr. Steve R. Parr

Spiritual development requires the freedom to connect with different parts of reality in order to understand them more fully. The more you're able to explore, the more connections you can form, and the greater your spiritual growth will be. When you feel a strong desire to connect with something in your reality, listen to your intuitive guidance, and make the connection. — Steve Pavlina

Spirituality is the poetry of our experience. Science is the gauge of our reality. Together, they create the essence of our humanity. — Steve Maraboli

Wishful thinking does wonders for a wishful mind; but in the end, reality always has the final say. — Steve Maraboli

It's a dream of mine. I worked very, very hard for many years. But the reality is, it's slow coming ... I think we're still a generation away from that. — Steve Sampson

As for biblical or religious theory, I don't ever want to fight about the details of the story, I want to live the reality of the message. — Steve Maraboli

[W]e're caught by our concepts ... [C]oncepts are not Reality. — Steve Hagen