Realization Quotes - Page 5

• There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper.

  Jaron Lanier

  Technology, Data, Humans

  Jaron Lanier (2014). “Who Owns the Future?”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Obsessive use of meditative disciplines or perennial study of scripture and philosophy will never bring forth this wonderful realization, this truth which is natural to awareness, because the mind that desperately desires to reach another realm or level of experience inadvertently ignores the basic light that constitutes all experience.

  Tilopa

  Philosophy, Light, Discipline

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• While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Achievement, Capacity

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.104, Open Road Media

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• When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Past, Parent, Return

  Mary Catherine Bateson (1985). “With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson”, Pocket Books

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• An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life And Death, Flow, Eternity

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Destiny, Poetry, Responsible

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “Less Than One: Selected Essays”, p.177, Penguin UK

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• With dedication towards a destination and some perspiration one gets their heartfelt realization.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Dedication, Heartfelt, Destination

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• We would do well to ponder the realization that love is the most potent source of power.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Power, Love Is, Source

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World”, p.34, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• God is one among several hypotheses to account for the phenomena of human destiny, and it is now proving to be an inadequate hypothesis. To a great many people, including myself, this realization is a great relief, both intellectually and morally. It frees us to explore the real phenomena for which the God hypothesis seeks to account, to define them more accurately, and to work for a more satisfying set of concepts.

  Julian Huxley

  God, Religious, Real

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• As I observe my daily life and that of others, I have come to the conclusion that genuine joy is a potent mixture of harsh reality, and the realization that life can be funny.

  Tone Bell

  Reality, Joy, Mixtures

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The use of force is always an answer to problems. Whether or not it's a satisfactory answer depends on a number of things, not least the personality of the person making the determination. Force isn't an attractive answer, though. I would not be true to myself or to the people I served with in 1970 if I did not make that realization clear.

  David Drake

  Determination, Numbers, People

  David Drake (2012). “Voyage Across the Stars”, p.624, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Army, People, Bores

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• To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work and that there are other occupations in the world a thousand times more refined, more enriching, for which she is also suited and to which she has a right.

  Anais Nin

  Animal, World, Occupation

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• It doesn't necessarily matter if I'm onstage or not. I just find the communal experience of a rock concert, or any type of music performance, achieves a kind of transcendence that I associate with spirituality. It's the closest thing to what I think people expect church to be like. Or maybe just what I've always thought church should be. You lose yourself, and at the same time come to the realization or understanding that you're part of something bigger than yourself.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Thinking, Rocks, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out all its threats simultaneously.

  Sigmund Freud

  Fate, Doe, Assuming

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• We must move from ... the primacy of technology toward considerations of social justice and equity, from the dictates of organizational convenience toward the aspirations ofself realization and learning, from authoritarianism and dogmatism toward more participation, from uniformity and centralization toward diversity and pluralism, from the concept of work as hard and unavoidable, from life as nasty, brutish, and short toward work as purpose and self~fulfillment, a recognition of leisure as a valid activity in itself.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Moving, Technology, Justice

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• I love the freedom of writing and then I love the realization of directing. I can't favor one or the other. I enjoy both parts of the process.

  Dee Rees

  Writing, Favors, Process

  "Interview with Dee Rees – Writer and Director of Pariah". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 27, 2011.

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• Realization doesn't destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect the whole sky.

  Dogen

  Reflection, Moon, Sky

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• No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the artist's consciousness of this discrepancy between his conception and the realization that assures his progress.

  Edgard Varese

  Art, Discrepancies Between, Progress

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• I took a walk, Suddenly I stood still, filled with the realization that I had no body or mind. All I could see was one great illuminating Whole - omnipresent, perfect, lucid and serene.

  Hanshan

  Perfect, Mind, Body

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• Chaos often fosters the greatest creativity. Breakdowns often precede the greatest breakthroughs. And when the pain is greatest is often when we're on the brink of the greatest realization.....When the pain is burned through rather than numbed, when our darkness is brought to light and then forgiven, then and only then can we move on. And move on we do.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Moving, Creativity

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• I think my favorite album was probably Realization.

  Johnny Ramistella

  Thinking, Albums, My Favorite

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• I am chilled by the realization of how similar circumstances in Europe in 2013 are to those of 100 years ago.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Years, Europe, Circumstances

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The realization that I came to is that each citizen for himself or herself understands the economics, which is, "I better make more than I spend and I better put something aside for a rainy day, and I want to get a good idea about what to do with the surplus so that perhaps it can grow while I'm sleeping." And that that's capitalism. Everybody practices it, but half of the country - those on the left - deny that it's true.

  David Mamet

  Country, Sleep, Rainy Day

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve
  purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites --- polar opposites --- so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love... What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love Is, Opposites, Justice

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