Realization Quotations

My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.

A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.

I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations about myself, and they were so valuable and liberating.

We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.

One morning, in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.

This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.

It wasn't so much that I was all alone on stage, but it was the realization of how much you need the response-you need the audience to tell you where to go

True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.

There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.

The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want.

There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization

At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.

Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

It's from being melancholy and having my human down experiences that I learn, that I overcome, that I transform - and these realizations I put into song. That's what I choose to put in my backpack and carry with me around the world.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.

I love contrast in music. Being inspired by classical, actually - in high school especially - classical and metal both, I remember having this cool realization that they are really similar. It's just different instrumentation.

There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

Libya is a good example of a country that has come to a realization that weapons of mass destruction threaten more than assure, and I hope that will be followed by others.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

I believe in the limitlessness of humans. We're capable of incredible things. At times, that realization is frightening.

I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman.

I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.

Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

One becomes great when he comes to the realization that what he knows is very little.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.

Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.

People have moments of consciousness and epiphanies throughout their lives, but then suppress the realization.

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.

The awesome part about The Book of Awesome is the realization that if you enjoy the simple moments in your life, you will be happier.

Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.

Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold

It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.

The middle-of-the-road policy is not an economic system that can last. It is a method for the realization of socialism by installments.

I wouldn't say there was a moment of realization when I wanted to be a runner; it was always just something I was.

To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate seeing from the feel of seeing, emotion from the acting of emotion, knowledge from the realization of knowledge.

One way of pointing to this realization is, when you think you have big problems, ask yourself, "What problem do I have at this moment?" Usually, you will find that you don't have a problem at this moment because you're sitting here and you're breathing, you're looking out the window, and it's fine.

We are not actually in charge of life, yet we behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.

I was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in perpetrating the stereotypes that affected women all over the world.

What popped up more than that was the realization that I made as an adult that the world is this incredibly complex, layered, and mysterious place and if you stop and think about it the human cell is literally more complex than a fleet of 747s.

Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.

Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother ... when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.

There would never be any room in her for anything else. No room for anything but the realization of what she had done.

If really good people who are deeply committed and who are thriving spiritually have to beat down the nature with which they seem to have been born and cut themselves off from the full realization of love, how can that be pleasing to God?

I get to tell my truth. I get to seek meaning and realization. I get to live fully, wildly, imperfectly. That's why I'm alive. And all I actually have to offer as a writer is my version of life. Every single thing that has happened to me is mine.

The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize. No, the answer to fanaticism and to death is curiosity and compromise and concession.

The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.

Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.

War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.

It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.)

As he flushed, an unexpected realization hit him. This is the Pope's toilet, he thought. I just took a leak in the Pope's toilet. He had to chuckle. The Holy Throne.

The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.

I find poignancy in the moments when a person realizes that she has made mistakes. I am not as interested in the mistakes themselves as I am with the consequences and how the person responds to her realization.

There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.

Freedom from mental distraction equals power. Body mind masters eventually come to the realization that this and every moment, on or off the field, is the moment of truth.

Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?

Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him.

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

I've come to the realizations that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time.

In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.

Self-realization is great.

Beware of those who weep with realization, for they have realized nothing.

I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.

I had never imagined myself doing [wrestling]. Once I came to the realization that it was a possibility, I just tried to concentrate on what I thought people would enjoy.

In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.

I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.

For myself, faith begins with a realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man. It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence--an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered--'In the beginning God.'

Research: the distance between an idea and its realization.

To study the buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. No trace of realization remains, and this no trace continues endlessly.

The first step in freeing yourself from social restrictions is the realization that there is no such thing as a safe code of conduct - one that would earn everyone's approval. Your actions can always be condemned by someone - for being too bold or too apathetic, for being too conformist or too nonconformist, for being too liberal or too conservative. So it's necessary to decide whose approval is important to you.

An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else

You were my last chance' she's said but don't all women say that? - But can it be by 'last chance' she doesn't mean mere marriage but some profoundly sad realization of something in me she really needs to go on living, at least that impression coming across anyway on the force of all the gloom we've shared -

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.

A constant realization of the presence of Spirit will provide a sense of Divine Companionship that no other attitude could produce.

The realization of our true substance and potential is the purpose of creation.

Do not entertain hopes for realization, but practice all your life..

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.

ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.

An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.

A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.

In talking about equality and asking vehemently for its realization, nobody advocates a curtailment of his own present income.

In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. It is like the quantum world, where the more we understand its formalism, the stranger that world becomes.

Everything about it was false. Right then, in that office, with the realization that no one knew the truth about my life, my thoughts about the world were shaken.

Liberalism is a force truly of the spirit proceeding from the deep realization that economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.