Best I Realized Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.”

Years Wanted Five Discipline Scientist I Realized Narrative Five Years Neuroscience Labs Undergraduate

Author:Jonah Lehrer

“With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.”

Moments Character Acting I Realized Drivers Taxi

Author:Jodie Foster

“Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off.”

Wells Hard Hard Work Paid I Realized Paid Off

Author:David Naughton

“I realized how important it was to know something about aviation, and it was something I was interested in, so I followed my brother's footsteps and obtained my pilot's license.”

Knows Important Brother I Realized My Brother Aviation Pilots License Footsteps

Author:Ellen Ochoa

“I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.”

Behinds Directors Exciting Cameras I Realized Producers

Author:Dino De Laurentiis

“There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.”

Way Giving Feels Situation Band Giving Up Expected I Realized Just Kids

Author:Gerald Caiafa

“I love 'Sweet Valley,' but I love it from a different angle. There are people for whom it is their adolescence. They own it, in a way that even I don't. I've come to respect the project more because of the response than I've had. It's more important than I realized it was. I didn't understand the breadth and depth of it. now I'm beginning to more.”

People Way Important Different Sweet Projects Response Depth I Realized Valleys Adolescence Angle Breadth Sweet Love Different Angles

Author:Francine Pascal

“I think I just realized that having a problem - an eating disorder - it's not healthy and you can actually die from that. I realized it's not worth it and you just need to be healthy.”

Thinking Needs Problem Dies Healthy Eating I Realized Disorder Worth It Eating Disorder Not Worth It Just Realized

Author:Nicole Polizzi

“There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?”

People Thinking Moments Used Walks Rooms One Day I Realized Like Me

Author:Victoria Principal

“I started to be much happier in my relationships when I realized that I can only control myself. That way, you don't worry about people and don't waste your time thinking, 'What if he cheats on me?' You can't control that.”

People Ifs Thinking Way I Can Worry Waste I Realized What If Cheat Don't Waste Your Time Control Myself Thinking What If

Author:Crystal Reed

“My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up - and I'm that person for sure.”

People Knows Persons Has Beens Turns Advice Concepts I Realized Thick Giver Therapists Messed Up Know It All Thick Of It

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“I'm a very private person, so I didn't like this idea of tweeting about me. And then I realized, 'Oh, this is actually a brilliant device in terms of interacting with the fans'. It's a lovely way to just get back, to thank the fans for watching the show. And to live tweet is kind of like getting the rewards of doing live theatre.”

Way Kind Persons Ideas Shows Term Fans Rewards Theatre Brilliant I Realized Lovely Devices Get Back Tweet Interacting Live Theatre

Author:Darby Stanchfield

“I realized that there was something internal that I could gain from pursuing this career as an actor. However, once I got into the business I just really abhorred what this career can drum up inside of a person.”

Persons Actors Careers Gains I Realized Internals

Author:Sonja Sohn

“It wasn't until after living in California for many years that I realized that you don't believe what anybody says, ever. Whatever they say, they're just making a movie - they just like the way they sound.”

Way Years Believe Humanity Sound Buddhism Don't Believe I Realized California

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was already interested in - gender politics, public space and urban life, demonstrations and parades and marches. The relationship between walking and thinking and between the mind and the body.”

Thinking Mind Body Space Path Wonderful Subjects Walking Gender I Realized Pursue March Urban Demonstration Parades Urban Life

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay.”

Age Young Girl Felt Achieve Gay Messages Obvious I Realized Nine Limitation Compounds

Author:Chely Wright

“I realized that even I have weird intimacy issues with humans - like, I need my friendships to get deeper, I need to be locked in, I need to remember people's names. I know this sounds really stupid, but I just need to be more present in my life.”

People Knows Needs Humans Remember Names Sound Issues Stupid Deeper I Realized Intimacy Locked My Friendship Really Stupid

Author:Jen Kirkman

“I realized I need a certain kind of chemistry and a certain kind of look to be into someone, and like 1 percent of the population has it.”

Needs Looks Kind Certain Percent Population I Realized Chemistry

Author:Jen Kirkman

“It wasn't until I moved to Nashville that I realized what an amazing community it is. It's the thing I've been missing my whole career, the feeling of being able to sit around with a guitar and have people know each other's songs and know songs from people who've influenced all of us. When I moved here pretty early on Vince Gill started calling me to do guitar pulls, and I thought, gosh, this is just like heaven on earth down here.”

People Knows Whole Feelings Able Earth Song Heaven Community Careers Missing Calling Moved Guitar I Realized Nashville Heaven On Earth

Author:Sheryl Crow

“I confessed recently to an old friend, "I realized I was looking at you, in your visit, through old glasses. Speaking old words. Telling old stories. I realize that in my life I've made so many physical changes and I need to give my spirit time to catch up." Time for my spirit to look at my friend through the new glasses of current life experiences. Old friends are precious. They become even more treasured when they are wrapped in the currentness of life experiences and not relegated to the past in which they once lived.”

Needs Giving Looks Made Stories Past Spirit Realizing My Friends Glasses Currents I Realized Redemption Life Experience Old Friends Treasured New Relationship

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that what intrigued me was not the science, not the chemistry or biology of medicine, but the narrative - the story of each patient, each illness.”

Thinking Stories Fields Brother Doctors Medicine Patient Illness I Realized Narrative My Brother Biology Chemistry Intrigued

Author:Lois Lowry

“At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.”

School Father Careers Roles Months High School Mathematics Filled Eight Medical I Realized Greek Feminine Latin Gaps Permission Medical School Professional Career

Author:Rita Levi-Montalcini

“I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.”

People Firsts Persons Said Acting Class Laughing Saws Teacher Cry I Realized Quitting Comedian They Said Acting Classes Stand Up Comedian

Author:Wendy Liebman

“It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.”

Jobs Film White Type Walking Mark Sticks Silent I Realized Ties Pairs Villain Mustache Spats Noblemen Silent Films Walking Sticks

Author:Adolphe Menjou

“Once I started the first school, I realized this is what my life is meant to be, is to promote education and help kids go to school and that's very clear.”

Firsts Helping Kids School Life Is Clear I Realized Meant To Be

Author:Greg Mortenson

“I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a very mysterious element to what works and what doesn't work in the theater. And it's good to know that from the beginning.”

Knows World Worst Directors Elements Understood Theater I Realized Mysterious

Author:Joe Mantello

“One of my favorite programs that we didn't make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks how much time I spend on different things. I realized that even though I was doing e-mail only a couple of minutes at a time, it was adding up to a couple of hours a day. So I'm trying to reduce that.”

Trying Different Running Hours Minutes Couple Computer Program My Favorite Track Corners I Realized Different Things Mail Rescue

Author:Matt Mullenweg

“That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.”

Men Years Wells Real Shows Night Hair Directors I Realized Tonight Killers Broadway One Night

Author:Barry McGuire

“I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.”

Ifs Turns I Realized

Author:Frank Miller

“I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it's part of life and part of the autobiography so I'll have to finish it sooner or later.”

Writing Sometimes Emotional Difficulty Painful Details I Realized Therapy Sooner Or Later Autobiography Explaining Parts Of Life

Author:Jenni Rivera

“It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.”

Firsts Wells Shows Jobs Hours Sleep College I Realized

Author:Dick Cavett

“As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.”

Children Grew Grew Up I Realized Hated

Author:Philip Larkin

“I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.”

Book I Realized

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find.”

Week I Realized Landscape Mcqueen

Author:William Friedkin

“I was very ill at ease with people in social situations, and I realized that if I photographed I wouldn't have to chat.”

People Ifs Social Situation Ill I Realized Ease

Author:Martine Franck

“I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.”

People Way Feels Should Writing Song Felt I Realized Writing Songs

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.”

Ideas Beats I Realized Rings No Idea Boxing

Author:Cara Castronuova

“I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.”

Thinking My Family I Realized

Author:Victoria Gotti

“I have only hated men at those moments when I realized that I was doing all the giving and they the taking. At least when I was a prostitute, it was all honest and upfront.”

Men Giving Moments Honest I Realized Hated

Author:Xaviera Hollander

“But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen.”

Ifs Moments Happens Able Law I Realized Ignorant Damn That Moment Lasers Damn Things

Author:Gordon Gould

“I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have scale. I decided to horizontally and vertically integrate, adding everything from spinning, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to processing and packing.”

Ifs Running Decided I Realized Scales Competitors Spinning Integrating Processing Weaving Packing Textiles

Author:Mian Muhammad Mansha

“It's through working with a lot of first-time directors that I realized that people learn on their feet. Everybody works on something for a different reason. Everybody has got something new to learn on these sets, and you don't have to know everything, the second you start.”

People Knows Firsts Different Reason Feet Directors First Time I Realized Something New

Author:Jess Weixler

“I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.”

Long Enough I Realized Ems Southern Baptists Southern Baptist

Author:Kinky Friedman

“It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.”

People Way Feels Whole Hands Asks Fear Realizing Rooms Changed Planets Sweet Asking Scared I Realized Boat Workshops Sweet Life

Author:Stan Dale

“It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too.”

Changed Planets Scared I Realized

Author:Stan Dale

“Singing has always been a part of my life. I started at Opryland singing, and I realized I could make a living at it. I thought it was something I would grow out of. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. Everything's just sorta fallen into place.”

Knows Grows Singing I Realized Fallen

Author:Kassie DePaiva

“I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.”

Genius I Realized Motion Pictures

Author:Richard Donner

“I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.”

World India I Realized Flats Valleys Silicon Silicon Valley World Is Flat Bangalore

Author:Thomas Friedman

“You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work in people's bonnets. Then one day I realized that I'd never amount to anything without an education and, being naturally adept at spelling, I decided that—”

People Years My Own Flower Amount One Day Ordinary Years Ago Decided I Realized Bees Own Business Spelling Part Time Adept Bonnets Minding My Own Business

Book:The phantom tollbooth

Source: The phantom tollbooth

“After being in the studio, I realized this is how I want to be. It just feels right.”

Want Feels Studios I Realized Feels Right

Author:Aurora Aksnes

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