Realising Quotes - Page 34

• I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.

  Andy Murray

  Motivation, Winning, Thinking

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

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• Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Dream, Reality, Important

  Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1957.

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• More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.

  Ramakrishna

  Hypocrite, Names, May

  "Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings". Book by Max Müller, 1898.

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• When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.

  Jimmy Reid

  Government, Downing Street, Wings

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• I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beauty, Beautiful, Time

  Virginia Woolf (1980). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930”, Chatto & Windus

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• When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

  Abdul Kalam

  Moving, Resilience, Needs

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• It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.

  William Faulkner

  Pride, Religion, Needs

  "The Sound And The Fury".

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• We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isn’t all totally pointless.

  Irvine Welsh

  Real, Careers, Ideas

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• It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought.

  Don DeLillo

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• Let him treat you like a lady and open the car door for you. If he doesn't automatically open the door for you, stand by the darn thing and don't get into the vehicle until he realises he needs to get hid behind out of the driver's seat and come round and open the car door for you. That's his job!

  Steve Harvey

  Jobs, Doors, Car

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• Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions,
  that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Meditation, Emotion, Being Me

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• The basic nature of all conscious beings is 'self-existing wakefulness'.
  Self-existing meaning spontaneous or without effort and wakefulness meaning natural awareness.
  To ignore our basic nature, is to wander in fear and confusion,
  to directly realise our essential nature is to be Enlightened.

  Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Nature, Buddhist

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• It is false to speak of realization. What is there to realize? The real is as it is always. We are not creating anything new or achieving something which we did not have before. The illustration given in books is this. We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now. Similarly we have simply to throw out all the age-long sanskaras [innate tendencies] which are inside us. When all of them have been given up, the Self will shine alone.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Book, Creating

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

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• People don't realise what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy - nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley - I was the Elvis of boxing.

  Muhammad Ali

  Men, People, Boxing

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Sep 29, 2012

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• I think I have become a better writer since having children. It improves creativity, particularly because once you have children it makes you realise the story isn’t about you.

  Louise Doughty

  Children, Creativity, Thinking

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• I hope people realise that there is a brain underneath the hair and a heart underneath the boobs.

  Dolly Parton

  Heart, Hair, People

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• I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel the civilisation of that closed world was mortally wounded by those invasions the old world is destroyed. That has to be understood. Ancient Hindu India was destroyed.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Thinking, India, World

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• I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are.

  Nora Ephron

  People, Laughing, Movement

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• Canadians should realise when they are well off under the Monarchy. For the vast majority of Canadians, being a Monarchy is probably the only form of government acceptable to them. I have always been for parliamentary democracy and I think the institution of Monarchy with the Queen heading it all has served Canada well.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Queens, Thinking, Government

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• The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity - of opportunity in the social, political and individual life.

  Bhagat Singh

  Opportunity, Political, Brotherhood

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• The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that our own world belongs to all its creatures.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Equality, Giving, Perspective

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• It's a risky business being a cyclist in the UK, there are a lot of people who really dislike us. It's the Jeremy Clarkson influence - we're hated on the roads. We just hope people realise we are just flesh and bones on two wheels.

  Victoria Pendleton

  Cycling, Two, People

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• Many people don't realise until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they are.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Fall, People, Deathbed

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.45, Penguin

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• The more man realises his humanity, the lonelier he feels.

  Ali Shariati

  Men, Humanity, Feels

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• In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.

  Lee Hall

  Wall, Thinking, Play

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