Quotes About Realization

I think I knew I was funny in Elementary School. I think most funny people realize it when they're young. It tends to come out of stress or trauma - something that makes you want to be funny.

I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell into it.

I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.

I've always loved those movies where somebody thinks they want something, and then they realize that the thing they really want is right in front of them.

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young. I only realized about five years ago that I actually didn't want to be an actor.

I wanted to be a lawyer. I realized I don't really want to be a lawyer. I want to play a lawyer. Thank God I figured that out.

It took me a few years to realize I might want to get into acting as a profession.

If I am lucky and find material that is interesting to me, I want to make it.

God wants us to grow and achieve our potential.

You might want to lie down," Magnus advised. "I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.

College is for finding yourself. I've established who I want to be.

Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day you wake up and you're someplace you don't want to be, with someone you realize you don't know.

As soon as I was out in the street, I realized I didn't want to be alone after all, I realized I didn't want to be anything at all.

Anything that you might want to be is around somewhere. You can become it. You just have to get into the state of mind that allows that to occur.

Pure genius. Why didn't I think of that?' The tone began rising once more. 'Why? Because I'm not an idiot!!

How the time for dreams of the future seemed to slip past unnoticed, until in reviving them a man realized, with a shock, that the privilege was no longer his to entertain, that it belonged to those younger faces he saw on all sides, laughing in the tavern and on the streets, running wild.

I can make you blind and senseless to them, but it'll be in your nature to fret about that strange emptiness. As if you're always on the edge of realization, but never able to reach it. It could drive you to distraction, Acquitor. Besides, the body remembers. You'll react to things you see, smell, taste, and you won't know why. It'll gnaw away at you. Your whole personality will change.

Friend, I have remembered something.

Shock registered in Baruk's face.

It slowly dawned on the thief that a duel was but moments away.

Sure. He came expecting to find two brains and found barely one.

She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. Afterward she felt a little foolish, and never spoke to anyone about it. Now, however, she knows she wasn't being foolish. She realizes that for no particular reason she stumbled into the core of what it is to be human. It's a rare gift to under stand that you life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.

Our ignorance is such that most of us don't realize we're thirsty. Or, if we realize we're thirsty, we look for water in the wrong place. We go into fire looking for cool refreshment. And often we're confused about what our thirst actually is.