Alternate Realities Quotes:

There's no point in living in an alternate reality.

- Jessica Cutler

topic: Reality, Alternate Realities

The best user experiences are enchanting.  They help the user enter an alternate reality, whether it's the world of making music, writing, sharing photos, coding, or managing a project.

- Kathy Sierra

topic: Writing, Reality, Alternate Realities, Music Writing, User Experience

I enjoy watching sitcoms where the team behind it have successfully created a whole alternate reality that you can enter into for half an hour every week.

- Simon Bird

topic: Team, Reality, Alternate Realities

In my work, it's simultaneously realities, instead of parallel. Simultaneous avoids the problem of alternate reality. In parallel reality, there's always a hierarchy, and there doesn't necessarily have to be a hierarchy. When you're in a palace like Blenheim, you're supposed to be in awe - why not be in awe of something different than the stuff they're showing you? It's about finding your own existential place.

- Lawrence Weiner

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Reality, Why Not, Alternate Realities

The kingdom of God, which Jesus came to inaugurate, is meant to create an alternate reality in this world, and ultimately to transform the kingdoms of this world.

- Jim Wallis

topic: Jesus, Reality, Alternate Realities, Kingdom Of God

I've always been fascinated by quantum physics and the possibility of alternate realities.

- James Dashner

topic: Reality, Alternate Realities, Physics

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.

- Robert Foster Bennett

topic: Reality, Thinking, Way, Alternate Realities

One common mistake is to think that one reality is the reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one.

- Mother Meera

source: Twitter post from Jan 14, 2016

topic: Mistake, Reality, Thinking, Preparedness, Alternate Realities

You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

- Margaret Atwood

source: "Attitude". Margaret Atwood's commencement address at the University of Toronto, Canada, www.humanity.org. June 14, 1983.

topic: Attitude, Reality, Trying, Alterations, Altered

I think that people who can't believe in faeries aren't worth knowing. I just think that alternate realities make you a good writer. If your work is any more than one dimension, you believe in faeries.

- Tori Amos

topic: Believe, Reality, Thinking, Faerie, Alternate Realities

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

- James Allen

source: James Allen (1923). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.22, New Line Publishing

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Sleep, Greatest Achievement, Dreams And Reality

Neil [Gaiman, creator of the comic Sandman, featuring the Amos-based character Delirium] believes that faeries have gone beyond cool. They've transcended cool. I just think alternate realities make you a good writer. If your work is any more than one dimension, you believe in faeries. I'm sure I'll start thinking now about all the people I know who don't believe, that I quite like. We can still go have a pint. Not the Chardonnay, though.

- Tori Amos

topic: Believe, Character, Reality, Chardonnay, Gaiman

For an advanced preceiver, the play of life is to assemble and reassemble the self in alternate realities of which this is one.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Buddhism, Reality, Other Worlds, Alternate Realities

I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.

- Raymond Moody

source: Don Piper, Cecil Murphey (2006). “90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life”, p.196, Revell

topic: Death, Reality, Research, Not Afraid Of Death, Near Death

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

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Reality, Media, Giving, Alternate Realities

It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos. What it's going to be, I don't know. Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. And maybe knowing isn't the point. Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Dark, Night, Reality, Middle Of The Night, Crackpots

It has always been the role of the shaman to go into an altered state of consciousness and track down where the soul fled to in the alternate realities and return it to the body of the client.

- Sandra Ingerman

topic: Reality, Track, Soul, Altered States, Altered States Of Consciousness

There's nothing that irritates Americans more than the fact that some members of Congress think they are entitled to their own set of rules. And it's true - too many people in Washington live in an alternate reality.

- Claire McCaskill

topic: Reality, Thinking, People, Alternate Realities

The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of losers and nutcases who hide out here because they can't make it in the real world, in real jobs — isn't this why we left England in the first place? To establish our own alternate reality. Weren't the Pilgrims pretty much the crackpots of their time? For sure, instead of just wanting to believe something different about God's love, the losers I work with want to find salvation through compulsive behaviors.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Crackpots, Alternate Realities

Cory Doctorow is a fast and furious storyteller who gets all the details of alternate reality gaming right, while offering a startling, new vision of how these games might play out in the high-stakes context of a terrorist attack. Little Brother is a brilliant novel with a bold argument: hackers and gamers might just be our country's best hope for the future.

- Jane McGonigal

topic: Country, Brother, Reality, New Vision, Alternate Realities

There's a difference between 'glamour' and 'glam rock'. Glam rock, to me, is a bunch of straight, hairy, football-liking lager lads dressed up in mother's castoffs and glamour is a certain sophistication, a certain other-worldliness, a certain unattainableness, which I think we certainly calculate. We believe that a band should be slightly larger than life - you should be transported to an alternate reality. I'm giving you some really good answers here, I'm very proud of myself.

- Brian Molko

topic: Football, Mother, Believe, Glam, Lager

The hope was, people like me got to finally find our place in college or in the actual world. People who understood this told you that high school wasn't the actual world, that it was more like a temporary alternate reality you were forced to believe in for four years. A video game you played, where you could never get to the next level no matter how hard you tried.

- Deb Caletti

topic: Believe, School, Reality, Alternate Realities