Realising Quotes - Page 34

• I think I have become a better writer since having children. It improves creativity, particularly because once you have children it makes you realise the story isn’t about you.

  Louise Doughty

  Children, Creativity, Thinking

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• It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

  Gertrude Stein

  Funny, Strong, Men

  Gertrude Stein (1945). “Wars I Have Seen”, New York : Random House

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• You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally.

  Dr. Dre

  Years, House, Alcohol

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

  Stephen Fry

  Rooms, Common

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Suffering, Affliction

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• When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

  Abdul Kalam

  Moving, Resilience, Needs

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• It's always tough when you lose - you've worked so hard for that moment and it hasn't gone the way you wanted. But you have to realise there's always a bright side, you have to pick yourself up and get ready for the next game.

  Maria Sharapova

  Games, Being Positive, Way

  "Tennis star Maria Sharapova reveals why she wants more women to take up the sport". www.mirror.co.uk. June 17, 2010.

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• I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.

  Giulio Andreotti

  Life, Giants, Looks

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• I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beauty, Beautiful, Time

  Virginia Woolf (1980). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930”, Chatto & Windus

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• It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.

  William Faulkner

  Pride, Religion, Needs

  "The Sound And The Fury".

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• It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Perfection, Perfectionist

  1891 Intentions, 'The Critic as Artist'.

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• We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isn’t all totally pointless.

  Irvine Welsh

  Real, Careers, Ideas

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• More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.

  Ramakrishna

  Hypocrite, Names, May

  "Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings". Book by Max Müller, 1898.

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• I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.

  Tony Blair

  Responsibility, Journey, Thinking

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• Let him treat you like a lady and open the car door for you. If he doesn't automatically open the door for you, stand by the darn thing and don't get into the vehicle until he realises he needs to get hid behind out of the driver's seat and come round and open the car door for you. That's his job!

  Steve Harvey

  Jobs, Doors, Car

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• When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.

  Jimmy Reid

  Government, Downing Street, Wings

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• Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Dream, Reality, Important

  Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1957.

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• Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions,
  that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Meditation, Emotion, Being Me

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• I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.

  Andy Murray

  Motivation, Winning, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won.

  Paul Merton

  Monday, Morning, Thinking

  "I think I'm sane" by Sam Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2007.

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• It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought.

  Don DeLillo

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• The basic nature of all conscious beings is 'self-existing wakefulness'.
  Self-existing meaning spontaneous or without effort and wakefulness meaning natural awareness.
  To ignore our basic nature, is to wander in fear and confusion,
  to directly realise our essential nature is to be Enlightened.

  Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Nature, Buddhist

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• Even though you get a little twinge every now and again with the years marching on and become aware of your own mortality, you realise you're only limited by your imagination.

  Ita Buttrose

  Women, Years, Marching On

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• I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are.

  Nora Ephron

  People, Laughing, Movement

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• It's a risky business being a cyclist in the UK, there are a lot of people who really dislike us. It's the Jeremy Clarkson influence - we're hated on the roads. We just hope people realise we are just flesh and bones on two wheels.

  Victoria Pendleton

  Cycling, Two, People

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