Realised Quotes - Page 6

• Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed

  Joe Strummer

  Power, Age, Authority

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• I mean, in the foreword to Impro in Denmark is by Søren Iversen, who I taught long ago, he was a Danish director, after he left. He said he'd read about [Eugeny] Vakhtangov. I'm a fan of his. When he heard that Vakhtangov had lots of tricks, he thought this was very bad. But when he came to be my student, he realised it was very good to have a lot of tricks. You saw some this morning.

  Keith Johnstone

  Morning, Mean, Long Ago

  Source: actorsandperformers.com

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• I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.

  Barbara Pym

  Encouragement, Unrequited Love, Might

  Barbara Pym (2006). “Excellent Women”, p.73, Penguin

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• And that's when I realised that a mans' ego was like fruit; easily bruised.

  Lauren Kate

  Ego, Fruit, Bruised

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• What I could really use is an older man. A mentor. One who could tell me how things fit together. He would have asked me to do chores that I felt were meaningless. I would have been impatient and protested, but done them nonetheless. And eventually, after several months of hard labour, I would have realised that there was a deeper meaning behind it all, and that the master had a cunning plan all the time.

  Erlend Loe

  Men, Together, Months

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• His face was in my neck and he was breathing hard. Was he grieving me? Already? Would he miss me? Had I, in some tiny way, come to matter to this enigmatic, hard, brilliant, obsessed man? I realised he'd come to matter to me. Good or evil, right or wrong, he mattered to me.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Men, Grieving, Breathing

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever”, Random House LLC

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• The girl was lighter without her heart. She danced barefoot on the hot roads, and her feet were not cut by the glass or stones that studded her way. She spoke to the dead whenever they visited her. She tried to be kind, but they realised that they no longer had anything in common with her, and she realised it, too. So they went their separate ways.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Girl, Heart, Cutting

  Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.174, Pan Macmillan

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• I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming.

  Jacques Lacan

  Past, Perfect, Becoming

  Jacques Lacan, Alan Sheridan (1980). “Écrits: a selection”

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• What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Life, Dream, Age

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• There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Yoga, Men, Self

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• A brand strategy can enable, sometimes crucially, the potential of an innovation to be realised. There are times when you literally need to brand it or lose it.

  David A. Aaker

  Business, Innovation, Needs

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• History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

  A. L. Rowse

  Thinking, Essence, History

  A. L. Rowse (2016). “The Use of History”, p.45, Routledge

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• When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  War, Men, Strategy

  Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris (2007). “A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind”

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• Remember the words of Christ: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." These words are literally true, not figures or fiction. They were the outflow of the heart's blood of one of the greatest sons of God who have ever come to this world of ours; words which came as the fruit of realisation, from a man who had felt and realised God himself; who had spoken with God, lived with God, a hundred times more intensely than you or I see this building.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Heart, Son

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.26, editionNEXT.com

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• This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.

  Charles Lamb

  Night, Other Worlds, Smoking

  Letter to Thomas Manning, 26 December 1815, in E. Marrs (ed.) 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb' vol. 3 (1978) p. 207

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• I was amazed by this person who, even though she had everything, would go to feed the homeless and visit sick children and Aids victims. It was like a fairy tale. Who was she really? Why did she do this? She was trying to find love. I wanted the world to see her kindness, her humility: I think she realised that would be her way.

  Mario Testino

  Children, Kindness, Humility

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• I don’t distinguish between magic and art. When I got into magic, I realised I had been doing it all along, ever since I wrote my first pathetic story or poem when I was twelve or whatever. This has all been my magic, my way of dealing with it.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Magic, Twelve

  Interview with Matthew De Abaitua, www.harrybravado.com. October 1, 2011.

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• I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States...

  Danica Patrick

  Dream, England, Compromise

  "Daytona 500: Racing superstar Danica Patrick commits career to America’s NASCAR". Interview with Rachel Ray, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 26, 2012.

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• Even when I was a child, I always wanted to be older. I realised just in time that it's a mistake and to enjoy my youth while I had it.

  Mark Gatiss

  Children, Mistake, Youth

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• When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

  Maj Sjowall

  Summer, Mother, Children

  "The queen of crime" by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

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• At 15, 16, you think you're going to be captain of England. But I realised it wasn't going to happen for me on a windy November night in Darlington, coming to my peak at the age of 23 but still playing for Mansfield Town.

  Aidy Boothroyd

  Soccer, Football, Night

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• Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised to the extent to which it makes this possible. Terrorism, which aims at putting out thespiritual light, is the antithesis of civilisation.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Light, Achievement, Society

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• Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more.

  Wim Wenders

  Criticism, One Day, Entertainment

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• I know some players like being the centre of attention and I admit that when I first became a player I liked fame, too. But that feeling lasted only for three months. Then I realised what it was really like to be the centre of attention all the time. It isn't all good.

  Mario Balotelli

  Player, Feelings, Three

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• I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach - you may call this Utopia - to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side... to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist.

  Vicente del Bosque

  Feel Good, Political, May

  "Vicente del Bosque: Putting regional tensions aside has united Spain" by Jimmy Burns, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2012.

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