Quotes About Realization

I think an engineer has not matured until he or she has conceived of a product and participated in every stage of bringing it to fruition, if that makes sense. And not many engineers get to do all of those stages.

Back in the 1990s, I had an opportunity to make a film. But I realized that it is better for me to go in stages so I could explore myself as an actor and in the process I started writing scripts.

When I was 5 years old, I was coming up the stairs, and I saw my mom standing there, singing 'A Quiet Thing' a cappella, and it was such a differentiating moment for me. I realized that we are separate from each other - she has dreams and goals.

In Bollywood, the film's stakes are as high as the actor. In Hollywood, they are way above, and the day we realise this in our industry, we will start appreciating actors.

I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real gift, and as soon as I figured that out I never looked back.

Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.

For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'

Working at the ad agency showed me just how possible things were from a production standpoint.

I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this.

Once a man sees what is possible, and makes just a few changes, a whole new world opens up where he finds opportunities that he couldn't see before.

The Satanist realizes that man, and the action and reaction of the universe, is responsible for everything, and doesn't mislead himself into thinking that someone cares.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.

Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.

There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.

The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.

A man's task is to find himself, and if he fails in this, it doesn't much matter what else he finds.

Every man has got to know his limitations.

We get so caught up in what a man isn't. It's what he is that counts.

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.

In one sense Brahman is known to every human being; he knows, "I am"; but man does not know himself as he is.

Now I understand," said the last man.