Quotes About Realization

It is daylight for him. ...

He has seen the glory of the Self

I had these false ambitions - marketing and MBA. I didn't do very badly at it, but I realised my calling was something else.

You write a book, and after 50 pages you think it's about one thing, and then you write another hundred and you realize it's about something else, and then by the time you're done, you can look back and say, 'Oh, this is what it's about.'

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight.

Sometimes, what you're looking for is already there.

I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.

Hollywood has realised that we do have actors and are not just mad about song and dance.

I went into politics on an emotional level and soon realised that emotion has nothing to do with politics.

I think the only regret I have is not to have opened my eyes sooner to aspects of life like the relationship of man with nature and animals.

I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do.

If I was going to go to college, I had to have a scholarship. By my sophomore year, it was evident golf was not going to be the path.

I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.

In the end, I don't think you can find soul. Soul finds you.

It's important to have a sound idea, but the really important thing is the implementation.

Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you're listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing... You're really trying to emulate them, then you realize, 'I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation.'

We concluded that you cannot rely on delta hedging alone. It sounds simplistic to say that now, but back then, this was the sort of thing people were only just beginning to realize.

So one thing that I want to do is to make people realize that astronauts in general are very normal people. They are down to Earth, so to speak. I know it sounds contradictive, but we are very normal people. We are very normal people with a fantastic privilege and opportunity to do something that is extraordinary.

When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off.

When I am listening to Vivaldi or Japanese music or making spaghetti at 3 in the morning and realize that I don't have the proper sauce for it, fame is of no use.

You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to war. It's right under your nose.