Realizing Quotes - Page 24

• The truth is we're all probably more creative than we realize, except we spend our lives watching TV or reading somebody else's book. We never pick up a brush and stand in front of our own easel.

  Adam Carolla

  Reading, Book, Creative

  "‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

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• Vocal rest is awesome. It is like any kind of fast. Firstly, it is a purification of speech. It made me realize how not careful I am with the things I say. It also makes you find new ways of communication and new methods to connect with people.

  Matisyahu

  Communication, People, Speech

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like to put my iPad on the window and leave it there for however long the journey is, so that I'm staring out, and it's staring out. We're kind of staring out together. It's very poetic to me, watching that absent-minded passing of time. You realize how much you've taken in. What is left of that memory of you staring out of the window for an hour? It's all on the iPad.

  Damon Albarn

  Memories, Taken, Journey

  Interview with Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. April 07, 2014.

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• I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.

  John Cleese

  Crazy, Thinking, Long

  Interview with David Morgan, www.cbsnews.com. October 25, 2015.

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• We are under [government's] control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't thought about it.

  Merle Haggard

  Government, People, Paranoid

  "A Q&A With Merle Haggard". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. March 24, 2005.

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• When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, People

  "Lemony Snicket Walks the Plank". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. January, 2015.

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• The New York Times has had fake stories. CBS has had fake stories. And now Newsweek had a fake story. You realize the only one that hasn't had to print a retraction is the National Inquirer

  Jay Leno

  New York, Fake, Stories

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• I wish my life and decisions to depend upon myself, not on external forces of whatever kind. I wish to be the instrument of my own, not other men's, acts of will. I wish to be the subject, not an object...I wish to be somebody, not nobody; a doer - deciding, not being decided for, slef-directed and not acted upon by external nature or by other men as if I were a thing, or an animal, or a slave incapable of playing a human role, that is, of conceiving goals and policies of my own and realizing them.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Men, Animal, Goal

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• The beginner should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style - all mannerisms, tricks, adornments. The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

  E. B. White

  Simplicity, Style, Beginners

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.190, Cornell University Press

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• If you set goals for yourself, and you're like a lot of other people, you probably realize it's not that your goals are physically impossible that's keeping you from achieving them; it's that you lack the self-discipline to stick to them. It's physically possible to lose weight. It's physically possible to exercise more.

  Daniel Goldstein

  Exercise, Self, Discipline

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• What's been most helpful to me is realizing that those times when all the heads in the room turn and look at me as if I was crazy, reinforce my own leadership capability. Because I've been in a number of those settings where I've been right. And I've been right often enough that now when it happens I don't automatically think, "Oh, my, what's wrong with me?" or "Ohhh, I must not be ready for this role," or "They know so much more than I do."

  Mitchell Baker

  Crazy, Thinking, Numbers

  "Inside the Firefox’s Den". Interview with Laura Mcclure, www.motherjones.com. September 16, 2008.

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• We all know that housing prices are going up, but what most people don't realize is that this has become a family problem. Housing prices are rising twice as fast for families with kids.

  Amelia Warren Tyagi

  Kids, People, Rising

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm just a regular guy. I want people to realize that I embody the true American dream. I work hard. I went to school.

  Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

  Dream, Hard Work, School

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've always felt at home in the Church. Catholics are often more laid back than they are given credit for - presumably because at the back of their minds they realize that, if necessary, they can always confess everything to their local priest.

  Jens Spahn

  Home, Catholic, Mind

  "Out on the Right: On Being Gay, Conservative and Catholic". Interview with Markus Feldenkirchen and René Pfister, www.spiegel.de. November 23, 2012.

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• You're married to a woman who has no objection to another woman joining the couple. Then she brings in her boyfriend. Suddenly you realize - my God! - you can love more than one person. In fact, you can love several people at the same time.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Couple, People, Joining

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Kids don't even realize what they're up against.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Kids

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 1, 2011.

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• One of the best memories of my life is contemplating that first finished drawing and realizing I had cracked the code, that I could make drawings like this whenever I wanted.

  Jim Woodring

  Memories, Drawing, Firsts

  Intervie with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• Few Americans realize it, but the United Nations is driving to take control over the Internet. You remember, the folks who want a worldwide income tax and who put Syria and Iran on their Human Rights Committee.

  Arthur L. Herman

  Rights, Iran, Income

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• It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.

  Mother Teresa

  Emptiness, Silence Of The Heart, Nothingness

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.8, New World Library

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• Healthy parenting is especially challenging when our own childhoods weren't healthy. It requires energy, attention, and constant restraint. Realize that you need healing. Take time out to nurture yourself.

  Vimala McClure

  Healing, Childhood, Challenges

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• Easter is not complete without loving the one who made it possible-Judas. Forgiveness becomes possible when we transcend appearances and realize that those people who represent the Judases in our lives and those qualities within ourselves that seem to have betrayed us have been the divine process growing us into Christs. It’s all Love.

  Walter Starcke

  Easter, People, Quality

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• One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness money can give and so fail to realize your need for God. If everything seems to come simply by signing checks, you may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Giving, Needs, May

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• High School made me realize that the people who say they will never change, are always the ones who change the most.

  John Green

  School, People, Never Change

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• You know the known, so go a little into the unknown. The mind that is caught up in the known - extended a little beyond reason. The moment you go beyond , you move in the soul. Releasing the bondage of your mind to extend further, reach the unknown a little more. The further you go, you realize that the known is limited and the unknown is vast.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Moving, Soul, Mind

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