Best 1416 quotes in «realizing quotes» category

I feel a responsibility, as I get older, to be responsible to what I've experienced, to what I've lived and been in a position to witness. I realize now that as a consequence of having lived the life I have, quite apart from the one, as I understand it, lived by most American writers, maybe I now know some things and have some stories to tell that others don't know about or wouldn't be able to tell. Maybe there's an intrinsic value in that lived experience and knowledge, though of course what you do with it is everything.

I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.

I feel like everyone is living an unfulfilled life. When you reach that point of fulfillment, you want something more. But when you realize your life is unfulfilled you can either decide to be depressed or you can do something about it.

I feel quite proud to be an ambassador for women who realize that being fit is better than being skinny.

I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media.

If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize it's a dumb idea. You start to mutate it to see what fits best.

If I learned all this so slowly it was because I learned by my mistakes, and some time always elapses between making a mistake and realizing it, and more time between realizing it and exactly determining it.

I find poignancy in the moments when a person realizes that she has made mistakes. I am not as interested in the mistakes themselves as I am with the consequences and how the person responds to her realization.

If something happens, you have to realize that you can't just yell at people all the time.

If somebody doesn't have enough judgment to be able to look at plastic surgery and realize how phony it is, then they can't be helped.

If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.

If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much?

If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity.

I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.

I fully realize that a person who stands for what I stand for, an activist, a gay activist, becomes the target or the potential target for a person who is insecure, terrified, afraid, or very disturbed with themselves.

I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine.

If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.

If you analyze the production of coca in Colombia, you will realize that it is like economic cycles. It goes up and down, it goes up and down depending on the circumstances.

If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless basket, because there is no peace in it.

If we're lucky we realize that life is really about family - your children, your family and your friends. Without that, the rest is hollow.

If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there's something called the Geneva Convention we're going to have to pull out of. It would defy every norm that is America.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

If you crossed Matthew Henry's path, you would quickly realize that here was someone taking thankful notice of all God was doing for him, and doing so in an attractively joyful way that was infectious.

If you don't measure up to your expectations, realize that you should just be life without expectations.

If you don't need it yourself, and you're building something that someone else needs, realize you're at a big disadvantage.

If you realize that those who do mean things are psychologically ill, your feelings of anger will turn to feelings of pity.

If you do your job right, no one realizes you did your job, and that's a good thing. You strive for that.

If you live in the city, it is necessary to get out of it on weekends. Then you will realize that most of the thoughts and desires you have are not yours. You will see what is you.

If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

If you don't realize there is always somebody who knows how to do something better than you, then you don't give proper respects for others' talents.

If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

If you're stuck in a situation that's painful or there's something that makes you angry, it can enable you to step back from your own experience of it and realize that this is just a part of what it is to be human. It can allow you to accept it a little bit more and make you feel like it's less unfair.

If you want to realize yourselves all your pet illusions must be unmasked.

If you've managed to remain a Luddite - one who resists technology - you're surrounded by people who don't, so you're affected more than you may realize.

If you want to be happy in your life with love you have to realize nothing ever goes perfectly. Life fluctuates, life is a frequency, it's an undetermined thing, it moves and you have to be able to accommodate that.

If you would reflect well and wisely, you would realize that those events you regard as personal misfortunes have served a useful purpose even in this worldly life, and indeed have worked for your betterment.

If you spend any time with a man, you'll realize that we're all still little boys.

If you want success, you have to work hard at it and realize that it takes time; it doesn't come to you overnight.

If you want to live the Christian life, you will have to realize that Someone Else has to be in control.

I get hit on so much it's not normal. I didn't realize so many men liked redheads.

I had experiences along the way that helped me to realize that letting go was the way that worked for me to find something that I, personally, as a reader, love to read.

Ignoring the expectations is what leads you realize the true potential

I grew up in a way where I didn't realize there were limitations.I always thought I could speak my mind.

I guess I started to realize that being an agnostic was such a wimpy position.

I had surprisingly little money when Wham! ended. You'd be very surprised how little, really, because you don't realize how much money it takes to maintain a band.

I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.

I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

I had to realize that the use of samples has its rules, too.

I have always wanted an adventurous life.  It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who could make an adventurous life happen to me.

I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.