Realization Quotes - Page 6

• I think my favorite album was probably Realization.

  Johnny Ramistella

  Thinking, Albums, My Favorite

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• I didn't change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Principles, Constitution, Seeing

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• I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher. There wasn't a great understanding of gender discrimination. People knew that race discrimination was an odious thing, but there were many who thought that all the gender-based differentials in the law operated benignly in women's favor. So my objective was to take the Court step by step to the realization, in Justice Brennan's words, that the pedestal on which some thought women were standing all too often turned out to be a cage.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Teacher, Race, Law

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• The American tradition of foreign policy exceptionalism, our grand strategy as a nation, reaches back much further. Really at the turn - the end of the 19th century, when we achieved power a generation after the Civil War, the outlines of an American vision came into focus, and what we - it was based on two things. One, our realization that our values and our interests were the same, and that our business interests would advance as our values advanced in the world.

  Daniel Fried

  War, Two, Focus

  Source: www.politico.com

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• New generations are intoxicated with the idea that they can make their presence known on the Internet. When I was young, there wasn't anything comparable. Very few got their picture in a magazine, fewer made records. We have to stand back and let them get their footing. Hopefully they'll come to the realization that the most important thing is their work and how they conduct themselves.

  Patti Smith

  Ideas, Important, Generations

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The first step in realization is to always think of God. Then after some years you will realize that you are one with God.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Thinking, Years, Firsts

  Source: souljourns.net

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• I think sometimes feeling that you've been marginalized opens you up to the realization that, in their own lives, almost everyone experiences marginalization, a kind of foreigner sense.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Thinking, Feelings, Kind

  Source: www.npr.org

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• [The designated or chosen leader tries to] articulate and justify the resentment dammed up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breathtaking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages the world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.

  Eric Hoffer

  Believe, Sacrifice, Self

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• When a novelist manages to describe or evoke something you thought or felt, without realizing that other people also found themselves in the same situation and had the same feelings, it creates that same solidarity. Maybe it's better to think of humor not as a tool to express the solidarity, but a kind of by-product. Maybe the realization "I'm not on my own on this one" is always, or often, funny.

  Elif Batuman

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The Prophet was taken by the order of God to heaven, which is a prototype of all spiritual realization in Islam. But, he had a guide; Gabriel, the angel, was his guide. He took him to heaven.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Taken, Angel

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I think there's an awakening now of a realization that we too early congratulated ourselves on the end of racial prejudice and white supremacy. And that was a feeling that we had when I was president, that we had pretty much overcome that problem.

  Jimmy Carter

  Thinking, White, Feelings

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• What interests me is the following paradox: of how, precisely in our liberal societies, where no one can even imagine a transcendental cause for which to die, we are allowed to adopt a hedonistic, utilitarian, or even more spiritually egotistical stance - like, the goal of my life is the realization of all my potential, fulfillment of my innermost desires, whatever you want.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Goal, Desire, Want

  Source: www.electronicbookreview.com

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• One morning in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.

  Byron Katie

  Morning, Suffering, February

  "How I Learned To Stop Suffering" by Byron Katie, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer. If I'm teaching a story by Hemingway, my endeavor is to present the story that Hemingway wrote in its fullest realization.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Teaching, Perspective, Trying

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• For my constituents, owning a home is the culmination of many years of hard work and the realization of the American Dream. At no time should a local entity take those years of hard work solely to increase their tax revenue.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Dream, Hard Work, Home

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• Five years after Aerosmith got back together, I realized how fragile we are as humans. There was a time I thought we were bulletproof, but then things happened and I came to the realization that I had to play every gig as if it was my last show. You have to start thinking that way, because you never know what's going to happen next.

  Joe Perry

  Thinking, Years, Play

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• I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.

  Steven Pinker

  Giving, Purpose, Arguing

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• For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Political, Democracy

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• The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Literature, Subjects

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• Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Loss, Trying, Figures

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• It's been hard, but I've finally come to the realization that it's okay to not be perfect.

  Jessica Simpson

  Perfect, Okay, Hard

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• A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.

  George Wald

  Lectures, Realizing, Dialogue

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• Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christ, Raised, Sanctification

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• It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.

  Abraham Maslow

  Creativity, Psychological Health, Self

  Abraham Harold Maslow (1999). “Toward a psychology of being”, Wiley

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• It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man!

  Ralph Ellison

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Men

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.40, Vintage

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