Quotes About Realization

My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.

You already have everything you need to be content. Your real work is to do whatever it takes to realize that.

At first when I realized I was a romantic, I was sort of shocked and shamed. But it is true... that the material I work most with is emotion.

Things are working out... towards their dazzling conclusions.

Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.

The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the work of photographing could go on forever.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

I believe that with enough practice and good faith, you can learn to recognize when the work is achieved.

I just continue to be kind of disappointed that people don't realize that and try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.

Most people ultimately realize that they can acquire things, change their partner or other things, consume more and still it doesn't work. I'm not criticizing any of this.

Many great works of art have only form, the sculpture of the thing. Color as used to signify realization by men like Titian and Rembrandt, gives greater life and tactile experience to the work.

I pretty much figured out in grade school that we weren't the stereotypical American family.

The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg.

I stood there amazed. I found it all hard to believe, that I, Des Nilsen, had actually done all that.

I was 10 when I realised I couldn't stand football. I'd tried, obviously, before this - no one wants to give in to social pariah-hood without a fight. I had stood frozen on pitches, done some running about and shouted a lot, as though I cared.

I know now why I stopped writing short stories. It was at the point when I recognised how difficult they were.

I got my Bachelor's degree in nursing and worked nine years - even taught nursing in a college - before I stopped and said to myself, 'This is not who I am. I am not really a nurse inside. I'm a writer.'

I think one has to understand that there are stages in life, and that the life of an athlete has its limits. It's short, and then it stops, and sooner or later you have to accept that.

I think about this every day. I wonder, 'Is today the day where everybody stops lying to themselves and realises that the government is the enemy?'

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

I try to push a single idea to its absolute limit. So for all of those ideas that existed in the story, you attempt to find a physical realisation in the space.

For me, the best moments in storytelling are the ones where I feel I'm discovering something.

To be a straight person and discover you're infertile is almost like discovering you're not a straight person.

I think we're realizing that gay people are able to do the type of comedy that we just assumed was for straight people over the years. Whatever old boundaries there were, which were very real and still have an effect on us, in the way we socialize, I think that's slowly becoming less important.