Realising Quotes - Page 27

• Brancusi made me realize that what I had learned previously — the quick ways of doing things — was all wrong... It is not the quick solutions. It is not something you learn and apply. After all, it is a search you have to enter into yourself.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Way, Made

  "Spaces of the Mind: Isamu Noguchi's Dance Designs".

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• When I started to realise how important the film was to people I thought there is a lot of negative stuff going on in the world, maybe they need these two people

  Jim Carrey

  Two, People, Important

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• At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.

  Linton Kwesi Johnson

  Dream, Long, Goal

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• Hustle is waking up the day before you die and realising you gave it your all.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Hustle, Wake Up, Waking

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• I like to think that we’re revolving on this planet and revolving through the galaxy. I love having context that’s so much bigger than I can fathom. It’s fantastic to realise how insignificant you are.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Thinking, Fantastic, Bigger

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• I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out.

  Katherine Heigl

  I Can

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• Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it's just fictional stories for entertainment.

  Holly Valance

  Reading, Writing, People

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• When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.

  John Cleese

  People, Age, World

  "The Secret Life of Brian". TV Movie, January 1, 2007.

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• I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that.

  Julie Walters

  Beautiful, Persons, Very Beautiful

  "Life is not so scary". Interview With Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2003.

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• Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.

  Bob Geldof

  Children, Kids, Band

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• After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions.

  Trevor Dunn

  Years, Definitions, Study

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• When you have been in TV and performing for as long as I have, you realise that you probably entertain in your sleep too... as for my catch phrase, I didn't actually say so much 'Can you see what it is yet?

  Rolf Harris

  Sleep, Long, Tvs

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• I have come to realise that men are not born to be free.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Born, Born To Be Free

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• Fighting teaches you a lot about yourself. When you fight you are in a situation where failure can happen. This chance of failure forges your character in many ways and makes you realise how mentally tough you have to be as a fighter. This mental toughness will transfer into your everyday life, giving you drive and a clear concise attitude, where giving up is not an option

  Daniel Hudson

  Giving Up, Attitude, Character

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• We're terrible at realising what goes on in other people's heads because we are trapped inside our own.

  Derren Brown

  People, Goes On, Terrible

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• The bad mood fairy comes to annoy you only when you are actually in a good position, but don't yet realise it!

  Jonathan Cainer

  Bad Mood, Fairy, Annoying

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• It was strange how you didn’t realise how much you loved a place until you had lost it completely.

  Kameron Hurley

  Strange, Lost

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• The truly unsettling thing about being a woman was needing a man to realise one's full potential

  Margaret Way

  Men, Full Potential, Being A Woman

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• It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity – devoid of mystery, emotion, gentleness and the unerring power of a woman’s love – is no life at all.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Daughter, Love Is, Emotion

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• What has happened to us? It seems as if we have perverted our freedom, our rights into license, into being irresponsible. Perhaps we did not realise just how apartheid has damaged us so that we seem to have lost our sense of right and wrong.

  Desmond Tutu

  Rights, Lost, Apartheid

  "Desmond Tutu Turns 75". www.news24.com. October 06, 2006.

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• I don't think we really measured the enormity of the whole occasion. I'm very, very surprised. We never expected it. When I set out in May we didn't realise how big this was. Only now have we realised the importance of this. [on the 2005 Ashes win

  Duncan Fletcher

  Winning, Thinking, Ashes

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• In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.

  Federica Montseny

  Responsibility, Sacrifice, Order

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• As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.

  Andrej Pejic

  Kids, Gender, Stage

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• People realise that his promise [Tony Blair's] to 'save the NHS' was just talk.

  Liam Fox

  Nhs, People, Promise

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• A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in the act of creation but disappears towards the completion of the work. For it is then the painter realises that it is only a picture he is painting. Until then he had almost dared to hope the picture might spring to life.

  Lucian Freud

  Art, Spring, Promise

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