Quotes About Realization

Alex got angry at me because he said I didn't understand how hard it was. And you know what? He was right. I didn't understand. Not then.

Before you lose things, you don't really know you can lose them,

Just keep in mind, it was aware of us long before we were aware of it.

In a flash I have a realization that chills me even further. While Robert and Ms. Violet knowingly engage in theatrics, that's just for business. It doesn't mean they don't actually believe this. The moving wave of leaves fades away before me, and I'm suddenly aware that the frogs have stopped their croaking. I get the feeling that I'm being watched. When I glance down at the shadows of Robert and me at our feet, a third figure now stands between us.

Nature controls us more than we want to admit.

Maybe, ironically, marriages lasted longer because people who really weren't made for each other could put off that realization for years with the distraction. Maybe that was a bad thing because prolonging a bad marriage was worse than cutting it off at the knees.

And by "I came to the realization", I mean Derek eventually told me, "We're flirting, can we please have some space?" Fair enough, Derek. Fair enough. So, I, Corin Cadence, master of understanding human mating rituals, left that room to the two of them and tried not to think about that too much.

It almost doesn't matter what you know…it's execution that matters most.

But in the end self-confidence mostly comes from a gut-level realization that nobody has ever died from making a wrong business decision, or taking inappropriate action, or being overruled. And everyone in your operation should be made to understand this.

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

And only then did I understand how stupid I was.

You will dance to the tune they play. Or you will take leave of the dance-floor. Because the orchestra's podium is too high for you to climb up there and tell the musicians to play some other tune. Realise that at last. If you think another solution is possible, you are making a mistake. You mistake the stars reflected in the surface of the lake at night for the heavens

He realized straight away that the conversation hadn't advanced a jot during his short absence.

Prawda, ?e to ogromna ró?nica? – Ogrom tej ró?nicy umknÄ…Å' jakoÅ› mojej uwadze.

In almost everything in his life, he's relentlessly pursuing the question of how the common people are deceived, and constantly thinking of creative and humorous ways to make them realize it.

His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist.

He knew it was too late to turn back and brusquely reminded himself he was no child, now, to be frightened of his own fancies.

Forever the dream is in the mind, realization in the hands.

My Apprentice is a PathFinder," Septimus said. "I am beginning to realise that means she can go pretty much anywhere she wants to.

Hij werd nu wie hij in werkelijkheid was. Septimus Heap.

a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned

And suddenly you know: that was enough. You rise and there appears before you in all its longings and hesitations the shape of what you lived. Book of Images

The women he had chosen, and who had, in one way or another, decided against him, had been more far-sighted than himself, and had discerned in his unremarkable courtship the prospect of a lifetime of boredom, though he had thought to provide them with everything that they desired. But they had desired an excitement which he could not provide. Now he recognized that they had been right to do so.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature