Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

All things are perceived in the light of charity and hence under the aspect of beauty for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on walking towards utopia which may not exist on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.

I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that even within that there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once kind of humming and sublime.

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

I have always detested any departure from reality an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act look feel successful conduct yourself accordingly and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Art must take reality by surprise.

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

Art has a double face of expression and illusion just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Art is not a study of positive reality it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is many companies don't have great imagination but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.

With reality TV sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everything you hoped and the camera loves them and they just blossom on the show. And then sometimes it's not all you envision.

Some of us may just in one-on-one conversations with our family with our friends over the back fence with our neighbors talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision and every action responsibility.