Realizing Quotations

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.

I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?

I wanted to go to Sesame Street! I remember distinctly running through my neighborhood, thinking I knew how to get to Sesame Street, and then finally finding myself among some scrub trees and realizing I don't know where to go from here. I had to just mope back home.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

To realize the American dream, the most important thing to understand is that it belongs to everybody. It's a human dream. If you understand this and work very hard, it is possible.

The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.

You get to the point in life where you realize you have to roll up your sleeves, deal with the consequences of what happens, and carry your own weight.

A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.

One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.

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?

It took me a while to figure that out and to realize what a gift that I had been given. And when I finally did, I dedicated myself to be the best pitcher I possibly could be, for as long as I possibly could be.

I realize that you have to show up for your life.

I didn't realize that pretending to be this 'Hills Heidi,' this spoiled rich girl who I wasn't, would almost destroy me.

My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.

Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.

It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.

When you realize youre alive, you can live life!

In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless

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

The hardest part about acting is realizing it doesn't matter.

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

I didn't realize how much people liked to bash SNL until I was on. I've always just liked it, and I've always watched it and been into it.

I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing,' that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.

By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.

I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.

I remember distinctly running through my neighborhood, thinking I knew how to get to 'Sesame Street,' and then finally finding myself among some scrub trees and realizing I don't know where to go from here. I had to just mope back home.

Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.

We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

The trick to great romance is in overcoming adversity. In realizing that love is worth some uphill climbs.

Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

I realize how unique my path has been. And I'm thankful for that.

Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.

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.

On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way.

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has

Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.

A Mormon knows that the promises of God are true, and He said that all will be tried; realizing these things the Latter-day Saints will acknowledge their Maker not only in blessings but also in tribulations.

Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me lasted a long time, which says, 'It's all or nothing.'

In Latino culture, the quinceanera's a big thing - it's when a girl becomes a woman. But I think age is just a number - you become a woman with the responsibilities you take on and the decisions you make. I started realizing that every day is a gift - you have every day to be thankful you're alive.

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.

Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.

At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.

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.

Working in this industry, I have been exposed to so many products and now realize more than ever how cruel and unnecessary animal testing is.

But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.

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

I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium.

My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.

I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.

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

Science of mind teaches you how to realize how much control you have over your own life. It teaches you that we have the ability to change our lives at any point we choose.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

We've got a lot of potential on offense. But really potential doesn't mean much if you don't realize it.

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

I try to give to my music the spiritual quality, very deep in the soul, which does something even if you are not realizing it or analyzing it - that's the duty of the music.

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.

At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them.

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.

Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

When you're young, you don't realize the sacrifices that people are making for you.

We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

We have to realize we are building a movement.

We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?

We all have different timetables in reaching and realizing that being in healthy partnership is better than being on our own.

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.

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

I am overly ambitious, because I realize it can be done.

As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us.

I've always had a hunger for realizing myself through my career.

'Unbreakable Smile' was based off one of the songs I wrote for the album - it was actually the first song I wrote for the album without realizing it yet. I think I wanted to name the album that because it seemed like that was just the theme of that chapter in my life and just the theme of all the songs put together.

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn't do that very well.

Young people have so many letdowns that people don't 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.

The more you fly, the more unsettling it is, because you realize how much more likely it will be for you to crash. I am getting better at it, though.

It took me a while to realize that basketball wasn't football.

We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.

Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something.

I could easily go one or two days without realizing that I'm so, so hungry. That's the negative outcome of what I've become.

Realizing that we've surrendered our self-esteem to others and choosing to be accountable for our own self-worth would mean absorbing the terrifying fact that we're always vulnerable to pain and loss.

People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.

I think a lot of young people don't realize the price of fame is a lot higher than they imagine.