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Quotes About Realization

When you're a conservative Republican, you never think people are making money by ripping other people off," he said. His mind was now fully open to the possibility. "I now realized there was an entire industry, called consumer finance, that basically existed to rip people off." Denied
~ Michael Lewis
There was so much confusion about the different terms," said Charlie. "In the course of trying to figure it out, we realize that there's a reason why it doesn't quite make sense to us. It's because it doesn't quite make sense." The
~ Michael Lewis
Once, he got himself invited to a meeting with the CEO of Bank of America, Ken Lewis. "I was sitting there listening to him. I had an epiphany. I said to myself, 'Oh my God, he's dumb!' A lightbulb went off. The guy running one of the biggest banks in the world is dumb!
~ Michael Lewis
I was in a state of perpetual disbelief. I would have thought that someone would have recognized what was coming before June 2007. If it really took that June remit data to cause a sudden realization, well, it makes me wonder what a 'Wall Street analyst' really does all day." By
~ Michael Lewis
After a few pages, Michael Burry realized that he was no longer reading about his son but about himself.
~ Michael Lewis
I realised suddenly that I was thirty-four and not making a very good job of it.
~ Michael Marshall Smith
After that month in Cairo she was muted, read constantly, kept more to herself, as if something had occurred or she realized suddenly that wondrous thing about the human being, it can change. She did not have to remain a socialite who had married an adventurer. She was discovering herself. It was painful to watch, because Clifton could not see it, her self-education.
~ Michael Ondaatje
Who realizes how contented feral children are? The grasp of the family fell away as soon as I was out the door.
~ Michael Ondaatje
I stared at them for a good long time, wondering if they didn't know how to use their wings, of if they just didn't know they had them, until it was too late to save themselves.
~ Michael Patrick MacDonald
Huston Smith, the scholar of religion, once described a spiritually "realized being" as simply a person with "an acute sense of the astonishing mystery of everything.
~ Michael Pollan
Huston Smith, the scholar of religion, once described a spiritually "realized being" as simply a person with "an acute sense of the astonishing mystery of everything." Faith need not figure.
~ Michael Pollan
It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.
~ Annie Dillard
I discovered at the age of five that I could sing, and I realised people liked it. The sound that came out made people happy, so I kept doing it.
~ Cynthia Erivo
For years, my dad's friend Joe was just my dad's friend. And it was only when I was 12 or 13 I learned that he was the lead singer of a band called The Clash.
~ Alfie Allen
I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.
~ Eddie Albert
I had wanted to be a dancer when I was younger. But at some point I figured out I was a better singer.
~ Katy B
It took me a while to really believe in myself or feel determined about it, but then once I realized that it's possible for anyone, and these people who are singers started off very normal... I realized that it was not that hard to do.
~ Alessia Cara
Every single day I'm shocked.
~ Karlie Kloss
When people say I've become a star, it takes time to sink in.
~ Vicky Kaushal
Working with Chiranjeevi sir, I realized the professionalism and attitude they used work with. It's just so contagious. When such a personality is doing that, everyone around, too, would do that out of respect. Work was far more efficient, smoother.
~ Kajal Aggarwal
Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.
~ Malala Yousafzai
The doctor asked what my diet was like and I had to sit down and realize it's not normal, and hadn't been normal for about 20 years.
~ Carre Otis
That's when it hit me. The site is more important than me.
~ Harry Knowles
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
~ Seamus Heaney