“I very much own the fact that I'm a misfit. The Internet makes everyone realize they're screwed up.” FactsRealizingInternetScrewed UpMisfits Author:Jenny Lawson
“What I'd like to get across is try your best to be yourself. I realize there are those who are much further along than you are; there are stars, but learn to be who you are and to play yourself. Be confident in that fact.” TryingPlayFactsStarsRealizingWho You AreBeing YourselfBe ConfidentBe Who You AreTry Your Best Author:Jerome Richardson
“The sad fact is that we're not educated to be aware and therefore able to question the reality created by our thinking. We don't realize that we must take responsibility for our thoughts to find out if they are really true, and then set aside or at least acknowledge those that are simply opinion and bias. We don't recognize that most thoughts are ultimately judgments, and that the truth of any judgment is how that judgment makes us feel.” IfsThinkingFeelsFactsRealityAbleRealizingResponsibilityOpinionJudgmentEducatedAcknowledgeBiasOur ThoughtsTaking ResponsibilityReally True Book:Inside-Out Healing Source: Inside-Out Healing
“I do not suffer; I cannot suffer because I am not an object. Of course there is suffering. But do you realize what this suffering is? I am the suffering. Whatever is manifested, I am the functioning. Whatever is perceptible I am the perceiving of it. Whatever is done I am the doing of it; I am the doer of it, and, understand this, I am also that which is done. In fact, I am the total functioning.” DoneFactsSufferingCoursesRealizingObjectsDoers Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“I think I've always been extremely conscious of the kind of empowerment that comes from realizing that you're in a position to express yourself. And the fact is that - and this is the thing about punk rock - that everyone is in a position to create culture, and that point has never been lost on me. To me, that's an important political aspect of doing this, and trying to live in a way that's about dialogue as opposed to like... spectacle.” ThinkingWayTryingKindImportantFactsPoliticalCultureLostRealizingRocksPositionConsciousAspectEmpowermentDialoguePunkExpress YourselfPunk Rock Author:J. Robbins
“We can't have everything! It took a lot of growing up for me to realize this unalterable fact and to discipline myself into accepting it.” FactsRealizingAcceptingGrowing UpGrowingDiscipline Author:Loretta Young
“People realize that we're certainly faced with an abnormal amount of adversity. The Cincinnati faithful is still going through a healing process with what transpired with Coach Huggins in the fall. But over the 20 games they've seen this team, I think they appreciate the fact that this team continues to fight, even though they're not always happy with the result.” PeopleThinkingStillsFactsFallFightingGamesProcessRealizingResultsHealingTeamAmountAppreciateAdversityCoachesFaithfulAbnormalAlways HappyHealing Process Author:Andy Kennedy
“Reality' is a movie generated by our brains. Because we don't realize this, we are far too confident that the stuff appearing in the movie is actually 'out there' in the world when, in fact, it's not.” WorldFactsRealityStuffRealizingBrainAppearing Author:Daniel Gilbert
“I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay in the fact that he realized Athens was not immortal. I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal; but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.” IfsThinkingKnowsFactsRealizingGoneForeverGreatnessAnd LoveLaysConvincedCanadaImmortalBangsLet It GoAthens Author:Pierre Trudeau
“In fact, Bill Clinton's an excellent example of what he should be doing when he realizes that he's not invulnerable. He realized two things: his invulnerability was contextualized in two things: junk food, and he had a problem with certain kinds of women.” ShouldKindTwoFactsProblemCertainRealizingExampleBillsClintonExcellentTwo ThingsJunkJunk FoodInvulnerability Author:Walter Mischel
“When someone is force to realize that the road he'd been working hard to make progress on was no different from the place he'd started, and when he realized that he had in fact gone backward, all that person can do is face the pale sky and lament.” PersonsDifferentHardFactsFacesForceCan DoRealizingGoneProgressSkyPaleLament Author:Mizuki Nomura
“Words are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things: we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apart from and against it, so that we can realize their inadequacies and arbitrariness, and can relook at the world without blinkers.” WorldNeedsLittlesFactsRealizingCornersInadequacyBlinkers Author:J. L. Austin
“The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.” MindStatesFactsLawPoliticalRealizingPowerfulStructureCorporateCrucialMachineryPolitical Systems Book:The Greening of America Source: The Greening of America
“17,000 children starve on this planet every single day. That fact alone should blow any conscious person out of their chair. You know, my mother used to say that a woman’s most important job is taking care of her children and her home. I laughed at that when I was younger, but I don’t laugh at it anymore. I just realize now that every child on the planet is one of our children, and the earth itself is our home.” KnowsShouldChildrenPersonsImportantFactsHomeCareEarthJobsUsedMotherRealizingLaughingPlanetsConsciousOur ChildrenBlowChairsLaughedImportant Jobs Author:Marianne Williamson
“I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves in my work because I hoped that if I concentrated enough the intensity of scrutiny alone would force life into the pictures. I ignored the fact that art, after all, derives from art. Now I realize that this is the case.” IfsLittlesArtEnoughFactsShowsForceFeltRealizingRoomsCasesAdmirationIntensityIgnoredScrutiny Book:Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre Source: Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre
“We come to think of an idealist as one who seeks to realize what is not in fact realizable. But, it is necessary to insist, to have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals, however often it may be the case that our ideals are impracticable.” ThinkingMayFactsRealizingCasesIdealsIdealist Author:Susan Stebbing
“We cannot change the hearts of the people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize the fact that however brave and gallant and devoted to their country still they are mortal and should exhaust all peaceful remedies before they fly to war.” PeopleShouldHeartStillsWarCountryFactsRealizingTerribleBraveSouthPeacefulMortalsRemedyDevotedGallant Author:William Tecumseh Sherman
“Inherent in being proactive and trying things and not waiting to be told what to do is the fact that you're going to fail, you're going to make mistakes, and you're probably going to piss people off. And if you're not pissing people off, if you don't have haters, if you're not putting yourself in a situation that has some risks associated with it, you're probably not going to realize your full potential.” PeopleIfsTryingFactsWaitingRealizingMistakeSituationFailingRiskMaking MistakesInherentProactiveFull Potential Author:Gina Bianchini