Realize Quotes

What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.

I am a lover. And with my kids I am even softer. I realize with my son, I have to sometimes be tough, especially now when he's pushing boundaries. With my daughter, I can get a little stern with her and she pretty much will listen.

I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.

I didn't realize it was October until I saw the Chicago Cubs choking.

You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession.

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again.

It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.

It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave.

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.

I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.

When we were on 'The X Factor,' we didn't realize how overnight the fame thing was. We didn't really understand it until we went on a shopping trip. It was like Week 7 or 8 of the show. We went with a few other contestants and there were loads of people, packed.

You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7.

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.

I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family.

Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues.

I hope I give girls an opportunity to realize that they can swim and go to school at the same time. It's not to be given up once they get out of high school. They can continue doing it for the rest of their lives.

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.

I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.

I came to realize in my late 20s that my velocity is not going to grow so I had to learn to utilize what I had.

No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do.

We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.

Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is the best job. The thing I had to realize was that I can't do every dream that I have.

You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.