Quotes About Realization

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

Merely pursuing a goal can cause us to fail to notice what's right in front of us. That's certainly what happened to Stewart Butterfield when he had Slack under his nose. He couldn't fully appreciate its potential until he quit Glitch, closing that account and forcing him back into exploration mode.

En medio de un torbellino desenfrenado, he experimentado por primera vez una especie de dicha inaudita y he pensado en voz alta puesto que he dicho "soy feliz".

A single moment of understanding can flood a whole life with meaning.

Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.

My junior and senior year in college is when I first realized what MMA is and really started liking it. I went the other route - I went into the entertainment field and started wrestling professionally, and I did that for about 11 years.

I wanted to write a book about Hemingway's Paris, but a professor beat me to it. I suddenly realized other people were making a living off all the things that have to do with my family background so I've got one good story to tell and I'm telling it.

My body became aligned with my identity, and it was profound.

I didn't know when I was growing up that this was a very special program, that this wasn't going on in other parts of the country. Now I realize that I was lucky.

Sometimes when a thing hits you, it hits you in levels, and the reality of what's happening has been a progression for me.

As the years go by, I realize how unique a style rock music is and how delicate you have to be with it sometimes; otherwise, you turn it into pop music or progressive rock or something else.

I think what happens is that you do the project first, then you think about what it's about. Years later, you figure out why you've done things.

That's really the nature of how cults get you - by starting slow, promising to help you realize your goals.

One of the biggest challenges is that once somebody realizes that they're ready to buy a home, then they realize that they haven't prepared properly, and it takes a while.

I'm kind of a dummy. I make movies and not realize until afterwards, 'Oh, I'm the protagonist.'

I've heard other gay people say when they were growing up they felt 'foreign.' Growing up, I was able to label these feelings as: 'I'm a Protestant.' It wasn't until I left, I thought: 'Oh, those weren't Protestant feelings.'

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.

DIONYSUS: You did not know me when you should have.

In that dark hour I was aghast to realise that something within me, long sickening, had quietly died. I suddenly knew I had no desire or tenderness or esteem. Nothing remained except the chill bonds of law and duty an custom.

It was during that term that I began to realise that Sebastian was a drunkard in quite a different sense to myself. I got drunk often, but through an excess of high spirits, in the love of the moment, and the wish to prolong and enchant it; Sebastian drank to escape.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the banalities about the ocean that one could realize, but if any one had told him then that these things were banalities, he would have gaped in wonder.