Realising Quotes - Page 2

• You have to realise that touching is a real violation of personal space.

  Jane Goodall

  Real, Space, Touching

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves – they can't depend on a particular person, ie me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  People, World, Want

  Interview With Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2011.

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• As I've gotten older and learned more, I realise that Hollywood has not told the truth.

  Phil Collins

  Hollywood

  "Phil Collins webchat - your questions answered on prog rock, self-doubt and Miami Vice". www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2016.

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• When you're young you want to show people what you can do, no matter what the cost. Whereas when you're older, and you realise that maybe a drum machine is better than you playing, then use the drum machine.

  Phil Collins

  People, Cost, Machines

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• As I paint, I realise, while it's something I do very much by myself, it's very solitary, the creative process feels similar to making music to me now, at least as far as my brain is concerned.

  Black Francis

  Creative, Brain, Paint

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Nothing-was more degrading than for a woman to have to marry for a home. Love should be the sole reason. Surely those with a brain-to think, eyes to see and a mind-to reason must realise that the capitalist system must cease and a co-operative system prevail in its place.

  Vida Goldstein

  Love, Marriage, Women

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• As a politician - particularly as a politician in a coalition - you quickly realise that compromise is a part of the game. But there are some issues where you have to draw the line - where you have to stand up and be counted, and you have to do the right thing. I think climate change is firmly in that category.

  Edward Davey

  Thinking, Games, Issues

  "Prince Charles attacks global warming sceptics" by Fiona Harvey, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2013.

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• I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

  Robert McCloskey

  Believe, Communication, Knowledge

  TV Guide, March 31, 1984.

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• We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Success, Children, Congratulations

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• In gardens it's not just plants and insects and microbes that grow. People grow too, and the best bit is that they don't realise it's happening. It just happens.

  Costa Georgiadis

  Garden, People, Plant

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• I often remember in this false, distorted way, and the memories are often cloaked in the colour of the sun. Sometimes I feel nostalgia for things I knew I hated when they were happening, for days spent at the beach or the swimming pool with my sisters.
  When I pick my memories apart, I realise my mind has merely played back the objective ingredients, the clichéd apparatus of happiness, the sun, the sound of splashing water, ice-cream on parched lips and cold fizzy drink on a hot tongue, and laugher too. My memory often peddles on the falsehood of past happiness. I should know this.

  M. J. Hyland

  Beach, Memories, Swimming

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• Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not go for a walk instead? But then I realise that to someone else it may not seem so ordinary.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Thinking, Rocks, Ideas

  Britta Benke, Georgia O'Keeffe (2000). “O'Keeffe”

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• If you wake up one morning realising that you do not know anything, then you are awake. If you still think you know something, then you are still asleep. If you are still trying to know, you are still trying to control. If you are still trying to control then you still think something can 'go wrong'. If you still think something can go wrong then you are not in touch with the source. If you are not in touch with the source then you live in fear. You are living in the fear that you have created, and that you are trying to get away from.

  Paul Lowe

  Morning, Fear, Thinking

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• I think all musicians and producers, they know the real goal is to come up with a record that is entertaining and not boring, that's the goal. I think if everyone agrees that that's the goal then it doesn't matter who's the band and it doesn't matter who's the producer. It just means that that you try to realise the ambition no matter what the situation is or who the people are.

  Black Francis

  Real, Ambition, Mean

  Source: thequietus.com

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• You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my target was not so much evil, but benign stupidity people doing stupid things without realising or, instead, thinking they were doing good.

  Tom Lehrer

  Fun, Stupid, Thinking

  "Stop clapping, this is serious". Sydney Morning Herald Interview, www.smh.com.au. March 1, 2003.

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• Few males achieve any real freedom in their sexual relations even with their wives. Few males realise how badly inhibited they are on these matters.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Real, Wife, Males

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• Some people come to Old Trafford and can't spell football, let alone understand it. They have a few drinks and a prawn sandwich but don't realise what's happening on the pitch

  Roy Keane

  Football, People, Sandwiches

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• Experience is the only real teacher and if you keep a diary you get three bites at educating yourself - when it happens, when you write it down, and when you reread it and realise you were wrong. Making mistakes is part of life. The only things I would feel ashamed of would be if I had said things I hadn't believed in order to get on. Some politicians do do that.

  Tony Benn

  Teacher, Real, Mistake

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• As young girls we grow up with the idea that life is going to be a bit of a fairytale. But at some point reality hits and we realise that's not what life is about. Many of us are faced with eating disorders and mental health struggles, bad relationships and heartbreak, low self-esteem and confused sexualities and more. Life is very much real.

  Darren Fletcher

  Girl, Growing Up, Confused

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.'

  Don DeLillo

  Writing, Found, Said

  "On Authors: Interviews with literary giants, 1995-2012 (Guardian Shorts Book 51)". Book by Robert McCrum, October 17, 2012.

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• Stardom is no longer the fuel of my soul. It is the deeper aspects of life that nurture me. And I realise I am very blessed.

  Sharon Stone

  Blessed, Soul, Fuel

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• Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

  Abdul Kalam

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Fighting

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• At fourteen, you really do start realising that the world is not a safe and protected place or not always.

  J. K. Rowling

  World, Safe, Fourteen

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• Not many people realise this, but you don't actually learn anything at art college any more; however, you do have to go there to find that out.

  John Kindness

  Art, College, People

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• The final goal ... is to grasp the native's point of view,
  his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Views, Goal, Vision

  Bronisław Malinowski (2016). “Argonauts of the Western Pacific”, p.60, Booklassic

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