realization quotes

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we’d been saying they were.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I’m not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together. In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it’s the recording or the performance side.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he’s a precursor.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

I was born realizing the flaws in the criminal justice system.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

As I’m traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we’ve harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don’t know what I feel; I just don’t know what the emotion is.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

When you make the finding yourself – even if you’re the last person on Earth to see the light – you’ll never forget it.

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.

My earliest realization of the stir of national life was the torch parade in the Garfield campaign. On that occasion, I was not only allowed out that night, but I saw the lamps being filled and lighted.

‚Bellyache‘ is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren’t real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don’t know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.

But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

Time discovers truth.

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like – full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.