Realised Quotes - Page 8

• There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

  Anxiety, Competition, Different

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• I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.

  Jamie Bell

  Interesting, Church, Edinburgh

  "Hallam Foe - Jamie Bell interview" by Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Some people make you feel better about living. Some people you meet and you feel this little lift in your heart, this 'Ah', because there's something in them that's brighter or lighter, something beautiful or better than you, and here's the magic: instead of feeling worse, instead of feeling 'why am I so ordinary?', you feel just the opposite, you feel glad. In a weird way you feel better, because before this you hadn't realised or you'd forgotten human beings could shine so.

  Niall Williams

  Beautiful, Heart, Feel Better

  Niall Williams (2014). “History of the Rain: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014”, p.128, A&C Black

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• I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell proliferation was also fundamental to cancer cells when cancer enters the phase of metastasis.

  Patrick Soon-Shiong

  Cancer, Cells, Phases

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• I realised in Sri Lanka that my dream of playing in a World Cup was a bridge too far.

  Jacques Kallis

  Dream, Sri Lanka, Bridges

  "Jacques Kallis adds one-day and T20 to Test cricket retirement". www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2014.

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• Realisation is a matter of becoming conscious of that which is already realised.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Matter, Becoming, Conscious

  "Ask the Awakened: the Negative Way". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1963.

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• My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!

  Dick Bruna

  Father, Ends, Firm

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• I have a very, very secret drive to become a dilettante, without the pejorative overtones or the obligation to produce myself. There's so much to examine, so much to contemplate. I have enormous enthusiasm when I start a new project but then there's the meetings and the counter-meetings, the rehearsals, the struggles. You have to keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get your dreams realised.

  Peter Greenaway

  Dream, Struggle, Secret

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• As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour

  Daphne Guinness

  Clothes, Needs, World

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• When I turned 36 I realised - the likelihood is that in four years time I'll be 40.

  Shane Warne

  Years, Four, Likelihood

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• I don't think we really measured the enormity of the whole occasion. I'm very, very surprised. We never expected it. When I set out in May we didn't realise how big this was. Only now have we realised the importance of this. [on the 2005 Ashes win

  Duncan Fletcher

  Winning, Thinking, Ashes

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• I realised life is so short and precious, you should do things that make you feel inspired, that push you and teach you something. I'd rather not have a big house, a huge closet of clothes, diamonds and a private plane, and instead a body of work that I'm proud of.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Clothes, House, Body

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

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• It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.

  Derrick Bell

  Change, Fear, African American

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• More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Dream, India, Bombay

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• Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest of the biosphere. ... We don't often tend to think about the social sciences (history, economics and politics) as subcategories of ecology. But since people are organisms, it is apparent that we must first understand the principles of ecology if we are to make sense of the events in the human world.

  Richard Heinberg

  Thinking, People, Environmental

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• Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less and less destructiveness. Keep the ideal in view and work towards it. None can live in the world without resistance, without destruction, without desire. The world has not come to that state yet when the ideal can be realised in society.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Views, Desire, World

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2100, Manonmani Publishers

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• And I saw Australia anew through her eyes. And I realised what a tremendously thrilling country it was. And ever since then I have been coming back regularly.

  Robert Helpmann

  Country, Art, Eye

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• The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief. Yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realised, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has added its weight to the scale.

  John Stuart Mill

  Religious, Tolerance, Religion

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “On Liberty: Mill's Works”, p.17, VM eBooks

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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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• Judging other people is such a natural and reflex phenomenon that even when somebody advises everybody not to judge anybody, actually he never realised that he has already judged that people judge others.

  Anuj

  People, Judging, Natural

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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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• Drama made me happy. Being on stage made me feel alive. But I did what a lot of people do, and that's follow this path of leaving school and going to university. It was only at university that I realised the only thing that would make me a satisfied man was to do what I loved.

  Emun Elliott

  Love, Drama, School

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• There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

  Andy Summers

  College, Guitar, Periods

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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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