Realised Quotes

• It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realized I'd become an actor.

  James D'arcy

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• I realized I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.

  David Rudisha

  Running, Dad, Father

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• I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I've used that as I've got older. It's controlling: I decide what part of my personality you're seeing. I don't want you to look at me, I really don't. I don't want you to comment on my clothes, my hair or the way I look.

  Catherine Tate

  Clothes, Hair, People

  "Catherine the Great" by Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2006.

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• I realized this weak that I just cannot do it all. So I will choose to do what i can, fabulously.

  Clinton Kelly

  Inspirational, New Year, Choices

  FaceBook post by Clinton Kelly from Aug 26, 2013

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  The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Self

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• I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humorous, Thinking

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• What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

  Sharon Creech

  Courage, Fear, People

  Sharon Creech (2009). “Walk Two Moons”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• I think I have changed a lot. People might feel a little unfamiliar with the new me, but this is just who I am. I realised that I just want to be free.

  Taeyang

  Thinking, Who I Am, People

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• Good people are seldom fully recognised during their lifetimes, and here, there are serious problems of corruption. One day it will be realised that my findings should have been acknowledged. It was difficult, but she always smiled when asked why she went on when recognition eluded her in her own country.

  Alice Stewart

  Country, Science, Should Have

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• So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.

  John Newcombe

  Fire, Negative, Way

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• I went up to a man and said 'Jesus loves you' but I realised that it didn't mean anything unless I did it.

  Jackie Pullinger

  Jesus, Love You, Mean

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• I have realised that my worst day as an artist is still better than my best day as a lawyer.

  Nathan Sawaya

  Artist, Lawyer, Worst

  Source: londoncalling.com

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• I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show.

  Ruby Wax

  Football, Women, Games

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• In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.

  Rowan Williams

  Love, Way, Creation

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• The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

  W. H. Auden

  Ideas, Catholic, Religion

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• When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice without an actor. That's my reason for acting: to get that character as right as possible for my writer. And I have never changed my philosophy.

  David Suchet

  Philosophy, Character, Voice

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• I realised that the question I had asked myself while writing this book [Swimming Home] was (as surgeons say) very close to the bone: 'What do we do with knowledge that we cannot bear to live with? What do we do with the things we do not want to know?'

  Deborah Levy

  Book, Home, Writing

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• One absolutely crucial change is that feminist film theory is today an academic subject to be studied and taught. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" was a political intervention, primarily influenced by the Women's Liberation Movement and, in my specific case, a Women's Liberation study group, in which we read Freud and realised the usefulness of psychoanalytic theory for a feminist project.

  Laura Mulvey

  Study Group, Feminist, Political

  Source: en.aup.nl

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• The technologies that will be most successful will resonate with human behaviour instead of working against it. In fact, to solve the problems of delivering and assimilating new technology into the workplace, we must look to the way humans act and react. In the last 20 years, US industry has invested more than $1 trillion in technology, but has realised little improvement in the efficiency of its knowledge workers ­ and virtually none in their effectiveness. If we could solve the problems of the assimilation of new technology, the potential would be enormous.

  John Seely Brown

  Successful, Technology, Effectiveness

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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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• Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, Youve got such a pretty face; why dont you lose some weight? Over the years Ive realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.

  Vidya Balan

  Children, Years, Issues

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• When I was 14, I saw someone getting their face and wrists slashed with a knife in a pub in Catford. Nobody lifted a finger. That's when I realised that violence wasn't funny. At all.

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Humor, Knives

  "This much I know". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2008.

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• I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  People, Unhappiness, Compare

  "Portrait of the artist: Marcus Brigstocke, comedian". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2007.

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• It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment - by the time of the World Cup that year, I could barely walk. A year later, I finally had a kidney transplant.

  Jonah Lomu

  Years, Choices, World

  "First & last: Jonah Lomu". Interview with Nick Green, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2006.

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