I Realized Quotes - Page 30

• It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.

  B. J. Novak

  Party, Years, Brave

  B.J. Novak (2014). “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories”, p.223, Vintage

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• I realized that so much of the pressure I was feeling was from outside sources, and I knew I wasn't ready to take that step into motherhood. [...] Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around.

  Kim Cattrall

  Mother, Feelings, Pressure

  "Kim Cattrall's Aha! Moment". O, The Oprah Magazine, www.oprah.com. March 2003.

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• At one point that's all I cared about, being a pro athlete. But I realized I wasn't athletic enough.

  Josh Duhamel

  Athlete, Athletic, Enough

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• I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have little involvement with our will. It is strange to realize that even our own thoughts pass by like scenery out the window of a bus, a bus we took by accident while trying to get somewhere else. Most of the time, thinking is an autonomous process, something that happens outside of our control. This perception of machine-like quality of the self is something many people discover, then try to overcome, through meditation.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Thinking, Self, Somewhere Else

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2002). “Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism”, p.129, Three Rivers Press

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• It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.

  Quincy Jones

  Class, Play, Peers

  The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org.

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• A few years ago I lost 30 pounds, and people still wanted to criticize. And honestly, I'm happy with myself if I'm a little heavier. I realized: 'Why am I trying to conform to someone else's idea of beauty?' I think I'm beautiful either way.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Beautiful, Thinking, Years

  "Khloé Kardashian's Best Makeup Advice". Interview with Lauren Brown, www.glamour.com. January 8, 2013.

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• While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing

  Tom Berenger

  Play, People, Hobbies

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• I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.

  Bam Margera

  Airplane, Games, Play

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• I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.

  Rachael Taylor

  Stars, Thinking, Resilience

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.

  Brooke Shields

  Class, Knowing, Pleasure

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• I realized that Judaism required me to give up something that meant too much to me...Bacon cheeseburgers.

  Shawnee Smith

  Giving Up, Too Much, Judaism

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• For a while, I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label.

  George Carlin

  Atheist, Labels, Belief

  Las Vegas CityLife, August 09, 2007.

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• I remember the revelation it was to me when I realized I'd rather be smart in the way Elvis Presley was than in the way, say, Ludwig Wittgenstein was. The thing was, you could imagine you could be smart like Wittgenstein by just thinking hard enough, but Elvis just had it. It was almost spiritual. A kind of grace.

  Richard Hell

  Spiritual, Smart, Thinking

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• I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I realized that language was very funny.

  Dominic Chianese

  Children, Italian, Ideas

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• It was one thing not to want a husband, I realized; it was quite another not to need one for the roof over your head, for your meat and bread, for the shoes on your feet and the coat on your back.

  Margo Lanagan

  Husband, Roof Over Your Head, Shoes

  Margo Lanagan (2012). “The Brides of Rollrock Island”, p.91, Random House

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• A child isn’t born bitter. I point no fingers as to who tainted the clean, pure pool of my childhood. Let’s just say that when I realized that I didn’t want to grow up, the damage was already done. Knowing that being grown up was no swell place to be means that you are grown up enough to notice. And you can’t go back from there. You have to forge another route, draw your own map.

  Hiromi

  Children, Growing Up, Mean

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• My doctor asked me if I smoked, and I said only when I'm working, golfing, or drinking. Then I realized the only time I don't smoke is when I'm home. I didn't even realize I'd become a smoker.

  Dennis Franz

  Drinking, Home, Doctors

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• I had a map on my wall that had a circle around Lubbock and then giant arrows pointing toward New York City and Los Angeles. Written across both arrows were the words 'Toward Civilization.' Of course, by the time I got to New York, I realized there really isn't any civilization.

  Barry Corbin

  New York, Wall, Civilization

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• I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound

  Pat Metheny

  Sound, Littles, Way

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• I stopped showering ever since I realized water causes people to drown. I cannot risk being so close to something that can murder me. Do you let killers into your house? Oh, but you let a murderer come out of your own faucet. Hypocrite.

  Thom Yorke

  Hypocrite, Water, People

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• I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away.

  Nelson Mandela

  Heart, Giving, Mind

  Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• This was an extremely difficult decision as I take great pride in representing our country. I know that I owe it to my USA Basketball teammates to be totally invested in the experience. After going through training camp with USAB, I realized I could not fulfill my responsibilities to the team from both a time and energy standpoint. I need to take a step back and take some time away, both mentally and physically in order to prepare for the upcoming NBA season. I will be rooting for USAB and look forward to future opportunities with them.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, Country, Team

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• I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.

  Tony Hsieh

  Lists, Moral, Made

  Tony Hsieh (2010). “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• The anger came creeping back like the leak from a dripping water tank, the fall of each individual drop passing almost unnoticed until I realized I was soaked with the emotion.

  Anthony Loyd

  Fall, Water, Hatred

  Anthony Loyd (2014). “My War Gone By, I Miss It So”, p.211, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I used to think that people who regarded everyone benignly were a mite simple or oblivious or just plain lax-until I tried it myself. Then I realized that they made it only look easy. Even the Berditchever Rebbe, revered as a man who could strike a rock and bring forth a stream, was continually honing his intentions. "Until I remove the thread of hatred from my heart," he said of his daily meditations, "I am, in my own eyes, as if I did not exist."

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Heart, Eye, Simple

  Marc Ian Barasch (2010). “The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness”, p.114, ReadHowYouWant.com

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