Realize Quotes

Because too much of my life was spent waiting to be seen. Hoping to be seen, hoping to be picked. Once you realize that you aren't looked at that way any more, other things start to happen and you have to depend on other things to get by.

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.

It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.

It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.

My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?

You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

Just to be around that, to feel a part of it and be able to integrate the experience while I was with the Messengers, of going and playing gigs with other drummers, gave me the chance to realize that it was not just me that was making it happen.

When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, 'I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist.'

I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did.

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.

We must work to help all families and all communities realize their dream of a better future.

Interested listeners have only to hear the recording to find out if those guys, who go to such pains to undervalue my work, are right. All people have to do is listen to realize it is a beautiful record.

I realize at one point, that I was being followed, and then I began to see the surveillance that was going past the road on my house. And so, these cars began to surveil me. People began to follow me around, and it did, it was very disrupting to think that your privacy was being violated, and for no reason that I could come up with.

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

My mantra is: Realize you're going to fail all the time, and accept it. That doesn't mean I'm not frightened of it.

I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?

I joke to people in the press that I realize I'm not black, I'm actually white. But I've got these roots in black American music. I love it.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.

I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.

Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.

It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need to think.

One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.

My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.