Quotes About Realization

Thought is forever attempting to find form, is always looking for an outlet, is always trying to manifest itself. It is the nature of thought to try and materialize into its physical equivalent.

After so many years wondering what kind of person you were going to become one day, somewhere you forgot that this question actually has an answer, and that 'one day' will eventually arrive. If it hasn't already.

Of all the different ways we reassure ourselves, the least comforting is this: it's already too late.

And now here was Arabella, making him feel worse. Maybe that was what she always did; maybe she always made him feel worse, and he'd never really noticed before. Maybe what seemed like the ordinary rough-and-tumble of marriage, combined with hard work and London, was something simpler: the fact that added to any equation, Arabella made it worse.

No lo ví venir. Un momento antes: todo, ya sabes: Londres.

How odd to still be shocked by what one has always known.

Time sneaks up on you like a wind shield on a bug.

It slowly dawned on me that, for most of the audience, the show's main attraction was neither the play nor the production but Liv.

Was it the day you realized your parents aren't perfect? When you got your first long trousers? Going to school? Saying hello? Saying goodbye? Your heart opens? It breaks? It heals? It breaks again? Which is it?

It is a world to see.

The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.

If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.

I wouldn't have told this to a soul back then, but as early as my first Wimbledon in '77, I realized I had the potential to be the very best: the best tennis player in the world. I confirmed it for myself as I rose through the rankings—but then, more and more, the problem became that almost everybody was somebody I shouldn't lose to. The pressure became incomprehensible.

only then did I wake out of the book.

The implication of "good riddance"—that love would switch off, like an electric light, once you realized the object of your love was dumb, or cowardly, or had bad taste—was not strictly borne out by observation.

Being responsible for her own happiness, she has realized, is a lonely proposition.

There was a memory for everything, India realized; it was pointless to try to escape the memories.

she has come to the chilling conclusion that we are all alone in our bodies.

Vivi might have remarked once or twice that he could use "more cowbell," but she has come to realize that Rip's strengths are underappreciated.

didn't understand how lucky I was to have her until she was gone.

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.

But it's done no good at all for me to bring forth the deepest truths from out of my inner being ... He sees me only as a woman. He cannot or will not rise above the sensual. He doesn't see me. He doesn't realize that he does not love me. I don't really exist for him. He merely loves my body, the outer cloak which is merely a manifestation of my true self! How horrible! How debasing!

And it became even more interesting when we realized that we were visiting the same six or seven work centers every time. They're not bottlenecks, but the sequence in which they perform their jobs became very important. We call them 'capacity constraint resources,' CCR for short.

I remember you saying how much people knew that they didn't know they knew.