Best 1416 quotes in «realizing quotes» category

Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.

Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it's a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands.

Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.

Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner.

Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong. -T-Shirt

Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength.

Now, stopping thought is only the beginning. As Brahmananda, who was a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, once remarked: The inner life begins with samadhi. This is an awesome thought, I realize, for the average person who meditates, that it could begin with samadhi.

Now that I'm an older woman, I'm so much more aware of the changes - almost too aware. I feel sorry for being so dismissive. You have to think about what you're thinking about and realize that you're thinking it.

Now today, moment by moment, realize that each person and event that happens is life for you. Life is not somewhere else. See how fully you can accept the life that presents itself to you now.

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.

[Occupy Wall Street] had an impact on consciousness. It was not effective in realizing change.

Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.

Ok," he said, "I don't like to disturb you at what I know must be a difficult and distressing time for you, but I need to know first of all if you actually realize that this is a difficult and distressing time for you.

Once we do fill the void and experience the expansion in consciousness, we realize there is enough and has always been enough. We've always had exactly what we've needed in every moment.

Once you realize that there are only certain points which you are willing to negotiate, it makes the negotiation much simpler.

Once you're away from music, I realize that's as intrinsic to who I am as anything else. That's the part that takes me out of my brain.

Once you realize that human actions affect every bit of earth and sky, you realize that the environment isn't just what surrounds us - it's all one whole.

Once you realize that what I’m saying is true and comes from the heart, then it’s easy. But if you see it all as a façade and just a presentation of affected emotion, then it’s not so easy, it’ll just confuse you.

Once you realize you're a spiritual being, you see life so differently. You respect things. You're more responsible to yourself and others.

Once you realize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best.

Once you realize that there are no geniuses out there, you can think, "I can do that". One reason I've succeeded is that I have that naïve sense of entitlement.

Once you realize that will power is just a matter of learning how to control your attention and thoughts, you can really begin to increase it.

Nothing could be left to chance, because chance, after all, can be dangerous. But what I didn't realize all that time, what I missed all along, is that chance is everywhere. It's also what life is made of. It's all around us, but most of the time we never see it working.

Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.

Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.

One has to find a balance. I don't say that when you leave it you forget all about the dharma or practice, but there have to be times when you throw yourself into it, and then there are times when you just relax and realize that wherever you go, you cannot get out of the dharma.

One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature.

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

One of the hardest things in life to realize is that the person you love could never love you like you love them.

One can realize God through kirtan alone.

One can't realize difficulty arriving at a momentous decision until one comes to do so.

One of the most amazing revelations of God comes to us when we learn that it is in the everyday things of life that we realize the magnificent deity of Jesus Christ.

One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider the United Sates, where everything is transformed into images: only images exist and are produced and are consumes ... Such a reversal necessarily raises the ethical question: not that the image is immoral, irreligious, or diabolic (as some have declared it, upon the advent of the Photograph), but because, when generalized, it completely de-realizes the human world of conflicts and desires, under cover of illustrating it.

One of their major initiatives was getting all officers on Facebook. So the question is, why are these people who are there to train the Afghans being pressured to be on Facebook? Again, it sounds benign until you realize that the military's concern isn't the Afghans, it's convincing the American people that we should be in Afghanistan.Soldiers can put up pictures and say "See how happy the Afghans are because of our presence here." It's a way to directly influence the American people using propaganda.

One of the toughest situations to be in is when you are objectively good at something, but realize that it's making you unhappy and unbalanced.

One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.

One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or, worse still, when one betrays them does one realize their power.

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

One thing about me, when I make a decision about something, I realize when you make choices in life, that dictates your life.

Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.

Only in eternity shall we see the beauty of the soul, and only then shall we realize what great things were accomplished by interior suffering.

Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist.

Only recently I’ve learned, it’s an obvious thing, but it just took me a while to realize

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

On staring out at a gloomy day: First you must realize that it is the day that is gloomy, not you. If you want to be gloomy, too, that's all right, but it's not mandatory.