Realising Quotes - Page 36

• When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Spiritual, Sleep, Reality

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• The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.

  Louis Kahn

  Badass, Bad Ass, Doe

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• No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.

  Gordon Brown

  Education, Money, Debt

  "Grants shake-up aimed at poor could see thousands more get university places" by James Meikle, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2007.

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• Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Boredom, People, Causes

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• The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to serve it, he must love it. If he does so, he will realise that in its service is perfect freedom.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Art, Perfect, Bully

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2010). “Mind of the Maker”, p.53, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Whenever I think I know something is a classic, or an amazing song, I realise it's still so subjective, because you and your friends could be talking about something, say, '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' - an amazing classic song - or someone would be like, "'Hey Jude' is an amazing song!", and I'd be like, "I don't really like it."

  Jay Watson

  Song, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• Tackling the issue of climate change presents us with an inflection point in human history - a climate justice revolution that separates development from fossil fuels, supports people in the most vulnerable situations to adapt, allows all people to take part, and, most importantly, realise their full potential.

  Mary Robinson

  Issues, Justice, People

  "19 VIPs Who Get Climate Change Better Than Congress" by Jacqueline Howard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2015.

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• Gradually, physicists began to realise that nature, at the atomic level, does not appear as a mechanical universe composed of fundamental building blocks, but rather as a network of relations, and that, ultimately, there are no parts at all in this interconnected web. Whatever we call a part is merely a pattern that has some stability and therefore captures our attention.

  Fritjof Capra

  Block, Doe, Attention

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• We (Muslims) have no right, in our present misery, to boast of past glories. But we must realise that it was the negligence of the Muslims - and not any deficiency in the teachings of Islam - that caused our present decay.

  Muhammad Asad

  Teaching, Past, Islam

  Muhammad Asad (1993). “Islam at the Crossroads”, p.59, The Other Press

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• If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Selfish, Believe, Want

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• I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Writing, Who I Am

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• Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power, let difficulties know that you too are difficult.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Helping, Difficult

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• There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Half, Alive, Term

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• For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.

  George Orwell

  Running, Ignorance, Thinking

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

  Brian Eno

  Noise, Cages, Appreciated

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• We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate... Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realising our potential, or embrace the fact that when we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.

  Christopher Reeve

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Self

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  Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.

  Joe Strummer

  Past, Want, Next

  "Armed Combat". Sounds Magazine Interview, July 17, 1982.

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• I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

  Alan Moore

  School, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Mean, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1941). “The Indian States' Problem”

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• A lot of people that buy vinyl today don’t realise that they’re listening to CD masters on vinyl and that’s because the record companies have figured out that people want vinyl, And they're only making CD masters in digital, so all the new products that come out on vinyl are actually CDs on vinyl, which is really nothing but a fashion statement.

  Neil Young

  Fashion, Cds, People

  "Neil Young dismisses vinyl revival as a 'fashion statement'", www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2015.

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• Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Responsibility, Past, Islam

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• When you walk the track and you see a corner and realise you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at that speed. But in the car, you don't even think about that.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Stupid, Thinking, Car

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• I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Break Up, Heartbroken, Letting Go

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• Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Losing A Loved One, Loss, Forever

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