Best 1416 quotes in «realizing quotes» category

We wanted to more richly experience why we were alive, not just make a better life, and so people went in search of things. The great thing that came from those that time was to realize that there was definitely more to life than the materialism of the late sixties and early sixties. We were going in search of something deeper.

We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.

What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.

What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?

What artists have accomplished is realizing there's only a small amount of stuff that's important and then seeing what it was.

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.

Whatever you chase will run away from you. So, stop chasing success and realize you already have it all.

What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.

What I'm realizing as I get older is that a movie's mainstream success is just as unpredictable as a movie's cult success. Plenty of movies that are truly odd and deserve cults, don't have cults. It's just as much of a crapshoot to be a cult hit as it is to be a mainstream success. Isn't that weird?

What people don't realize about Donald Trump - and I don't even know if Donald Trump realizes it - is that every tweet he unleashes against you - and maybe this isn't true for everyone, but in my case it certainly was - creates such a crescendo of anger and, in my case, again, threatening behavior that it would send my life into lockdown.

What people don't realize is that fame, whatever your worst experience in high school, when you were being bullied by those ten kids in high school, fame is that, but on a global scale, where you're being bullied by millions of people constantly.

What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.

What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones.

What's gonna happen to the arms industry when we realize we're all one. Ha ha ha ha ha! It's gonna fuck up the economy! The economy that's fake anyway! Ha ha ha! Which would be a real bummer. You know. You can see why the government's cracking down... on the idea of experiencing unconditional love, ah.

What should exist? To me, that's the most exciting question imaginable. What do we need that we don't have? How can we realize our potential?

What we really need is to realize how little we really need.

What you don't realize as a kid is that if your parents are always going to be there for you, they aren't going to be somewhere else doing exciting and glamorous things.

When are we going to realize that hating other women - no matter how much money they have or how far they've fallen - is just as bad for ourselves as it is for anyone else?

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

What you have to get used to as a writer is realizing that most of what you come up with is wrong for the show.

When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?

When God gives you some opportunities, it is almost like a process that you do not even realize what is recurring at the moment.

Whenever you note the time on the clock, realize that it is now—right now—later than it has ever been.

Whenever I realize I'm being a goofball, I write it down. When I release the joke onstage, I love watching the effect it has on the audience. No one wants to see someone talk who takes themselves too seriously.

When I came back I had to realize that IC was not in a very good shape - all the much money that we had because of the huge Ideal success, was gone. I was very upset.

When I auditioned for the show, I didn't realize it was an MTV production, which is going to make for really good tunes during the episodes, if nothing else.

When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performing a variety of postures on a mat.

When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

When I'm on the phone with a listener or I meet someone one-on-one, and they're on the lowest rung of hell and they open up, I realize, hey, this isn't about being a DJ anymore. When you're with people who are going through a difficult part of life, that's sacred space. That's better than any trophy or meeting a rock star.

When I perform, I always opt for communication with God, and in pursuit of communicating with God, you can enter some very dangerous territory. I also have come to realize that total communication with God is physical death.

When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.

When I stopped drinking... there were so many things I had to face that I didnt even realize were part of my makeup before. When you do that and have any changes that severe, you lose a lot of things, both good and bad.

When is the night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply when you realize that you have to?

When it's all over, you'll realize that the answer is already within you.

When I was a young student, I thought grow-ups would come and make things work. Now I realize that grown-ups are just kids with wrinkles.

When I was younger, I felt like I could say anything and it was funny. I've started to realize that what I say and do does affect everybody around us. I'm not just talking about what you put on a record - even just walking into a store and how you interact with the person behind the checkout counter.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.

When people thank you for doing something, you begin to realize how truly blessed you were to have been put in that position.

When people realize you're not the stuffed shirt they think you are it's such a relief and you have people who really like to be around you.

When we realize and embrace the Lord's will for us, we will love to do it. We won't want to do anything else. It's a passion.

When we deconstruct how radical evil occurs we realize that it is anything but spontaneous combustion. You need pyromaniacs.

When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn't realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I built here at the Studio, and they all got into it and we were doing it because we loved to do it.

When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way.

When we realize we can stop being Jesus defenders, we can start being Jesus representatives .

When we realize how little we mean to the universe, we realize how important we are to each other

When we realize that Jesus is the one who takes the initiative and invites us to follow him, everything changes-on multiple levels.