Quotes About Realization

He can bring many things to Madrid, certainly titles. But Cristiano can't do it alone because he doesn't play by himself and that is something everyone must realise.

To be honest, I hadn't realised the greatness of film music till I was exposed to film songs after I started living in Mumbai.

It's very hard to be honest with yourself when something's just not working.

To be honest, I didn't even know what the Drama Desk Awards were until I was nominated.

I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.

Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.

I thought I was cool until I left the country. I went to Tokyo, and I was like, man, why am I wearing these jorts?

I've become less tolerant as I've got older, but I put that down to realising there are people out there who actually enjoy being destructive, and that those people will never change.

I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because of the way people perceive you, or are you happy enough about the things you've realized about yourself that you can tolerate the way people perceive you?

And why just then, why that moment was the moment in which she understood quite suddenly her own death, she couldn't say. Simply, she saw how he would miss her.

There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

Like a dog defeated in a frenzied circle by its own tail and slowing and realizing then that the tail it was after all along was already its possession

I need to become who I already am

Hell is the moment you realize that you were ignorant of the fact, when it was true, that you were not yet ruined by desire.

I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.

How many miles had they come? Less than halfway, and already Caroline had the sense that a separation such as this could put more than miles between folks, could right this minute be working changes she might not be entirely conscious of and might never realize at all unless she and Eliza saw each other again.

You know how sometimes you can be going along and do something or say something, and suddenly you *know* yourself? I mean, it's like you're looking at somebody else, and it's just so fucking clear you want to hit something.

It rattled me. Not just the look or the question-although those were bad enough-but the realization that he'd simply taken a shortcut through the conversation I'd anticipated having and reached the finish line ahead of me. I'd known he was much smarter than he seemed, but I hadn't appreciated before how quick he was, that his mind was not in any way hobbled by the scar that slowed and distorted his speech. It was so terribly easy to forget that.

When I see her,' I said, 'it's like - I don't know what it's like. It's like I never saw anything at all before.

I must be better, she thought—realising it then, in that moment, for the first time. I must be OK.

Only when the little charade was nearly complete did Frances understand what it was all about. The spot at which Lilian had been grasping lay just above her heart. She had been drawing an imaginary stake from it.

never occurred to her. She desperately tried to think through the implications of it.