Quotes about Realization
And I sat there trying to think, and failing, thinking only that whatever I would say was probably going to be a surprise to me.
— Wendell Berry
It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too much, I was a child no longer now; innocence and childhood were forever lost, forever gone from me.
— William Faulkner
I realised; no: knew; it was obvious; Boon himself admitted it in so many words)
— William Faulkner
Through prayer, religion insists, things which cannot be realized in any other manner come about: energy which but for prayer would be bound is by prayer set free and operates in some part, be it objective or subjective, of the world of facts.
— William James
Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
— Henry Ford
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
— Henry Ford
That which you are looking for, you're living with.
— Les Brown
Mark Twain stated, "The two most important days in your life are the day you were born, and the day you realize why you were born.
— Les Brown
When he spoke, he illuminated a truth I had always yearned for and yet always run from. I am known as an authority on the holy texts, and yet when he spoke, I realized I knew nothing. And what I did know, I had cloaked in my own selfish interpretations. In so doing, I had turned the truth into lies.
— Janette Oke
Until you actually start making something, your brilliant idea is just that, an idea.
— Jason Fried
Implementation beats oration.
— Aesop
Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
— Steven Pressfield