I Realized Quotes - Page 32

• Yes, confidence was knowing I could do anything. But, I realized, confidence must always be rooted in work. In sweat. In pain-good pain. And in honesty.

  Duff McKagan

  Honesty, Pain, Sweat

  Duff McKagan (2012). “It's So Easy: And Other Lies”, p.330, Simon and Schuster

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• One day I realized I was living in a country where I was afraid to be black. It was only a country for white people. Not black. So I left. I had been suffocating in the United States... A lot of us left, not because we wanted to leave, but because we couldn't stand it anymore... I felt liberated in Paris.

  Josephine Baker

  Country, Paris, White

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• As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.

  John Kricfalusi

  Cartoon, Wonder, Found

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• I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.

  Bill Gates

  Life, Inspiring, Education

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• I'd like to get the sex thing over with, but I realized I'm not done with it. You should never will a change in your work - you have to work an idea to death. I often find that the best things happen when you're near the end.

  John Currin

  Sex, Ideas, Done

  "Lifting the Veil". The New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2008.

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• I thought about going to WCW but then I realized I wasn't old enough.

  Mick Foley

  Wcw, Enough

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• I realized I could really become hooked on these happy pills. They gave me a glorious feeling of general well-being and didn't make me fat, like alcohol. I wondered if there was any harm in being addicted to only these.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Alcohol, Feelings, Pills

  Augusten Burroughs (2004). “Magical Thinking: True Stories”, p.103, Macmillan

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• People frequently comment on the emptiness in one night stands, but emptiness here has always been just another word for darkness. Blind encounters writing sonnets no one can ever read. Desire and pain communicated in the vague language of sex.
  None of which made sense to me until much later when I realized everything I thought I'd retained of my encounters added up to so very little, hardly enduring, just shadows of love outlining nothing at all.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Sex, Pain, Writing

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• I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

  Bob Uecker

  Flames, Dozen, Bats

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• Each time I did assignments or editorials, I realized that I wanted to do something more. I saw that it wasn't just about the clothes.

  Herb Ritts

  Clothes, Saws, Assignments

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• I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions

  Tina Brown

  Fun, Ideas, Perception

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• I realized fear one morning, with the blare of the fox hunter's sound. When they're all chasin' the poor bloody fox, 'tis safer to be dressed like the hound.

  Jack Higgins

  Morning, Sound, Hunters

  FaceBook post by Jack Higgins from Aug 07, 2015

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• One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.

  Samuel Dash

  Believe, Ambition, Knowing

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• That was the way it was that beautiful evening of cold November rain and muddy country roads and crazy windshield wipers. That was the moment of my greatest security and confidence; it was the time when I realized that love makes one a better person, a kinder gentler one.

  Irene Hunt

  Beautiful, Country, Crazy

  Irene Hunt (2005). “Up a Road Slowly”, p.96, Penguin

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• I realized in that moment that physically speaking my talents were well beyond Joe [Namath’s] talents. So then I realized, ‘What am I doing here? This doesn’t make sense because it’s always going to be about Joe.’

  John Riggins

  Talent, Moments, That Moment

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• At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia.

  Amar Bose

  Philadelphia, Radio, Grew

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• Football became my obvious metaphor as it does for many, and I began to equate this as being 'halftime' in my life. As I reflected on my professional life I realized how much time I had spent trying to make first downs and score touchdowns. My focus had now changed into trying to be more about people and serving others.

  Marc Trestman

  Football, People, Focus

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• I used to wonder why God used a prop like the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil to inflict guilt on Adam&Eve, until I realized it could have been a steak or a plate of fries or a bagel. Anything. Making people feel guilty is a staple of religion and society in general. It works. And if you can transfer guilt from a real criminal to an innocent bystander, you've really got something going. It's a magic stage trick that can make a career.

  Jon Rappoport

  Real, Bystanders, Careers

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• I realized early on that I was pretty good at organizing. A lot of it was about control. While my friends were out getting hammered at concerts, I was making money. I am a control freak.

  Kevin Plank

  Freak, Making Money, Concerts

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• I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.

  Martin Puryear

  Casting, Carving, Method

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• I realized that even big waves start with small ripples

  Adam Braun

  Wave, Bigs, Ripple

  Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Vulnerability is a loaded word, and it can off-putting and terrifying to people. The best moment of my life (and by the way, this actually wasn’t a single moment) was when I realized that I no longer give a damn about what anybody thinks. What you'd talk about as vulnerability, I'd talk about as simply being true to yourself.

  Cindy Gallop

  Single Mom, Thinking, Giving

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• Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my lifewas the day I realized that I know longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That's enormously liberating and freeing, and it's the only way to live your life and do your business.

  Cindy Gallop

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• I realized at a very young age that health is precious, and too many people don't realize it until it's slipping away, or worse yet, it's gone.

  Sean Swarner

  People, Age, Gone

  Sean Swarner (2007). “Keep Climbing: How I Beat Cancer and Reached the Top of the World”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was as far as I could go, and to this day I have never successfully gone beyond it in any but the most superficial way.

  Isaac Asimov

  Years, Way, Gone

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.141, Bantam

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