Quotes About Realization

So you ain't nearly as good as you think you are. What a shock. Look at your clothes and armour – you're chopped to pieces, O mighty assassin.

I cannot help what I am – and that is the first lie, the one I uttered to myself long ago.

I never dreamed to win a Grand Slam. It was never a dream because, for me, it was way too far.

I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.

It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.

My epiphany came in that police cell: I realised I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living.

I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.

It was quite jarring to go from newspapers to magazines, and the reason I did it was because I had my second son, and with my second child, I just thought, 'I can't travel at will,' which you really need to be able to do. And so I had a sort of slow realization that I could no longer do the job that I loved.

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

I got into the industry after Miss India, but I actively started modeling in 2010. I never even dreamed that a simple girl like me could act, let alone become an actress. Slowly, as I started giving acting a shot, I realised how much I enjoyed it and how happy it makes me.

The beauty about being a producer is you sit there, and you explore ideas which become a passion, which slowly becomes a reality.

It's not sinking in, as I still believe I am a kid! And now I am going to have a kid. I'm slowly digesting it.

I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business.

I know I'm a smart person, and yet I was duped by the abortion industry for eight years. Why did it take so long for me to see the truth? I don't know.

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

I had a moment - and I don't know if it was funny, necessarily, but I realized the effect I could have on people - when I was doing a production of 'The Little Prince,' and I played the snake.

My plan always was to play college football, hope to get a few snaps in and then go on to medical school. As I went further in my career and got to my junior year, I realized as I looked around, 'I got a shot here, and I might as well go after it.'

I don't think we fully understood what the implications could be when we found out we were doing 'SNL.'

With 'SNL,' it's such an iconic institution. Throughout my 20s or maybe even in middle school or high school, it never felt like a real thing. It felt so distant, and I never imagined I could do that.

I feel like I've become less of a music snob and less of a snob about a lot of things because I realize I came off as such a bad person because of that.

I realized, because I've been doing these very small, character-driven movies, that this is entertainment. This is so much fun.

The cancer is something completely out of my control, but the fear, I realized, is not.

As Huxley wrote to Osmond in its aftermath, "What came through the closed door was the realization . . . the direct, total awareness, from the inside, so to say, of Love as the primary and fundamental cosmic fact." The force of this insight seemed almost to embarrass the writer in its baldness: "The words, of course, have a kind of indecency and must necessarily ring false, seem like twaddle. But the fact remains.

the first dead body I had ever seen