Quotes About Realization

Christianity isn't about a return to or repristination of a mythic lost paradise or golden age of the past, but about the movement towards a yet unrealized future in which that past is surpassed in a glorified and surpassing realization of the goods within it.

When you travel, the world comes real and three-dimensional, impossibly vivid

It's one thing to be given a big boxful of theory and quite another to make an engine out of it.

It's one of those things where people tell you that when you have kids it will change your perspective on life, and you're like, 'Yea, yea,' but then you really understand it when it happens to you.

I thought that I was a crazy pet owner, but now I realize I'm not so bad.

My first job was at Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati, my second job was at a pharmaceutical company in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. My third job was at Palmolive. And I realized, three jobs in three years, maybe it wasn't the job. It had to be me.

My first year with the Giants they cut Phil Simms. That was the best thing to ever happen to me because George Young loved Phil Simms and it just made me realize that it's a business and you can't take it personally.

There's no better feeling than having an idea and seeing it become reality, emerging in the physical world.

Before I was physically there in different countries to meet my fans in person, I didn't really realize how famous I was.

When I found out that I was picked to be on 'The Ultimate Fighter,' my first thought is that my dream had come true.

The first time I picked up a law book, it was like I had done it all my life. There was just something that happened to me when I did that, and I realized there was a hidden gift there I didn't know I had.

It wasn't until high school that I realized Avenged Sevenfold was picking up locally.

As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

I pinch myself daily.

Pretty much everyday, there's a moment where I'm having to pinch myself and think, 'When did this happen to my life?'

I do have to pinch myself at times when I look back at some of the things I have achieved. I really do.

I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

I always wander round thinking I'm anonymous. Maybe in my psyche I would like to be. But then you suddenly realise you're not.

Sometimes you wanna be James Bond, and sometimes you wanna be Marlon Brando until you realize you can't be either!

I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.

I really wanted to buy a Range Rover. It was a big dream, and the day I bought it, I was very happy, but by evening, I was immune to it. That's when I realized that excitement, if it's happiness, is not in reaching the goal but in the process. Thus process trumps over realization.

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a portrait painter. As I got to be older, I realized that as a portrait painter I wouldn't be able to support a goldfish.

I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken.

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.