“I think people don't often realize how much goes into being a male dancer. It's athletic and it's hard. It's not just men wearing tights, or wanting to be around women.” PeopleThinkingMenHardRealizingMalesDancerAthleticTights Author:Amanda Schull
“Occasionally I talk with people who see doctors as people who do nothing but give of themselves and never receive from anyone else - especially not from their patients. That is totally false. The longer I remain in my profession, the more I realize how much I receive from those who come to me for help.” PeopleGivingHelpingRealizingDoctorsPatientProfession Author:Benjamin Carson
“Mobile is important, and coming faster than most people in this room realize.” PeopleImportantRealizingRoomsFasterMobile Author:Matt Cutts
“True self-esteem is realizing that you are valuable because you were born. No matter where you came from, what color your skin is, what people say about your family or what mean things people may have done to you, because you were born, you are important and you matter.” PeopleMayMeanImportantSelfMatterDoneRealizingBornSelf EsteemColorSkinsValuableEsteemOur FamilyTrue Self Author:Oprah Winfrey
“Not for the first time, I wonder what it would feel like that, to be so beautiful that you don't even realize people are watching you, to be so confident that you don't even have to worry about being nervous or feeling self-conscious. I've spent what seems like my whole life trying to pretend I'm that way. What would it be like to have it just come naturally?” PeopleWayFeelsTryingFirstsSelfWholeFeelingsSeemsBeautifulRealizingWonderWorryConsciousFirst TimeWhole LifeNervousSelf Conscious Author:Lauren Barnholdt
“I want to be like the air. The good-hearted person whose kindness overflows and people realize how important she was to them, once she is gone. I want to be that kind of person.” PeopleWantKindPersonsImportantRealizingKindnessGoneAirHeartedOverflowGood Hearted Author:Aya Kito
“Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits decline, and companies find themselves falling into debt... I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.” PeopleFirstsFallRealizingCompanyShareChangedProductsAimProfitDebtMindsetDeclineCanon Author:Fujio Mitarai
“As you go through life you realize that the love that you have for the people in your life and their love for you is all that matters. It's really about how you regard them and how they regard you.” PeopleMatterRealizingRegardPeople In Your Life Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“I'm constantly scared. I'm constantly fearful of what's to come and people don't realize that just because you're doing something doesn't mean that you're fearless but you get up every day and you do it. It takes a lot of courage to be real.” PeopleMeanRealRealizingScaredGet UpFearlessBeing RealFearful Author:Adrienne Bailon
“I don't know if people realize how much I tour and how much time I spend writing, but I really enjoy it.” PeopleIfsKnowsWritingEnjoyRealizing Author:Avril Lavigne
“If you really take a step back and observe people who are considered super-normal and watch them a bit, you'll realize that they're actually completely out of their minds! Most people are really nuts, and that's fascinating.” PeopleIfsMindBitsRealizingStepsWatchesNormalFascinatingNuts Author:Johnny Depp
“Working in a situation with men and women, and seeing women take on roles equal to the roles taken by men made you understand that, "Hey, these people can do things too." And I think it made me and other people in the movement realize that we're living in a community of equals. And that among those equals, they have equal rights. And we ought to respect their rights if they respected ours.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenMadeCan DoRealizingCommunitySituationRolesTakenRightsSeeingMovementOughtEqualMen And WomenHeyEqual Rights Author:Julian Bond
“Clint Eastwood is so fair and consistent. It does not matter who he is talking to, he is always nice. It doesn't matter whether he is with a production assistant or Steven Spielberg, he is friendly and never seems superior. I think it is hard for people to realize that he is accessible because they are caught up in the image and can't talk to him because he is 'Clint Eastwood', so they get tongue-tied. They get terrified. It is funny watching people with him.” PeopleThinkingDoeMatterHardSeemsRealizingTalkingNiceFairsCaughtProductionsTongueSuperiorsConsistentFriendlyTiedTerrifiedCaught UpAssistantsTongue Tied Author:Paul Walker
“As a director, you try to do things that are going to touch the human experience somehow, and emotions that mean something to people. You search for those projects and you hope to realize the potential in a project.” PeopleTryingHumansMeanRealizingEmotionDirectorsProjectsHuman Experience Author:Catherine Hardwicke
“It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all value is set by a political authority, basically.” PeoplePoliticalValuesCultureRealizingHugeAuthorityPaperFixedPaper Money Author:John Currin
“When I made my first film, Basquiat, I think one of the criticisms was that the way I work is episodic. Later, as people started to look at the movies, they started to realize that maybe that's my style. If I could do it better or another way, I guess I would.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayFirstsLooksMadeFilmRealizingStyleCriticismIf I CouldAnother WayBasquiat Author:Julian Schnabel
“When you get to work with great people like on our movie, Blake and Ellen Burstyn and Harrison and Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, the first minute or two it's like, 'Oh my God, I'm working with you,or Harrison,' people you've admired for so long, after like five minutes you realize we're all trying to do the same thing, we all have a passion for telling good stories and we're going to try to make the story the best possible.” PeopleTryingFirstsLongTwoStoriesPassionRealizingFiveMinutesCrewFive MinutesGreat PeopleGood StoryBakersBlakeAmanda Author:Michiel Huisman
“I don't struggle to forgive people. I find it quite easy to forgive people for the harms that they have inflicted on me. What I do find challenging is to forgive people for the harms they inflict on my daughters and family. So, I find it challenging when I see somebody else experience hurt. I also look at my children and family and then I realize, I don't stand inside their skin and that is for me a forgiveness practice I still need to engage in.” PeopleNeedsLooksChildrenStillsEasyRealizingChallengesHurtPracticeStruggleDaughterSkinsForgivingHarmMy ChildrenMy Daughter Author:Desmond Tutu
“You tend to think that your time is either the best or the worst, and then when you have a sense of history, you'll realize actually, no, there were times things were quite gusty in the world. I mean, just think, nowadays most people will say they support the advancement of women, woman has been equal, the fact that we're so aware of the gustiness, in a sense, also speaks about the heightening of our own sensitivity.” PeopleThinkingWorldMeanHas BeensFactsSpeakRealizingSupportWorstEqualSensitivityAdvancement Author:Desmond Tutu
“There's no way in which you can ever win a war against terror. As long as there are conditions in many parts of the world that make people desperate: poverty, disease, ignorance, etc. I hope that we will discover soon, that we can survive, only together. We can prosper only together. And I think people are beginning to realize this, that you can't have pockets of prosperity in one part of the world and huge deserts of poverty and deprivation and think you can have a stable, secure world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayLongWarTogetherWinningRealizingPovertyConditionsIgnoranceHugeDiseaseTerrorProsperitySecureDesertDesperateEtcPocketsStableDeprivationTogether We Can Author:Desmond Tutu
“I often think people don't know what to think of me, and in fact this is precisely the objective of many of my creations. Even back in the days with Lady Starlight, my original partner, we aimed to bemuse. This feeling of bemusement - it's neither good nor bad. It just is. Whether critics realize it or not, they've been in a very long argument since my public birth.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLongFactsFeelingsRealizingCreationBirthArgumentOriginalsCriticsPartnersObjectivesThink Of MeStarlight Author:Lady Gaga
“The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous. And I only have like a tiny, tiny bit of that, and I'm already disgusted by it. But I realize that the only way to be disgusted by fame is to be famous, because otherwise it looks amazing. Then people stop you on the street, and it's like the most annoying thing in the world. The first time it happened it's great, and then the second time you have to shake somebody's hand.” PeopleWorldWayFirstsLooksHandsBitsRealizingHappenedStreetsFameFirst TimeTinyShakesAnnoyingBeing FamousDisgustedTurned OffAnnoying Things Author:Jesse Eisenberg
“I think people's perception is that when you're famous, you want people to love you. That's a big part of why people become famous, because they don't just want love, they want it on a grand scale. But once you realize - and it's not a big trick to really figure it out - that it's just completely artificial, an external pumping of the ego that's never going to really help you, then it's an easy thing to step out of it. That's probably why Harrison Ford lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.” PeopleThinkingWantHelpingBigsEasyRealizingStepsLove YouFiguresEgoPerceptionScalesTricksHolesArtificialEasy ThingsWyomingJackson Hole Author:Woody Harrelson
“Sometimes I can't tell that someone is a selective asshole because they're so nice to me and the people around me that I don't realize it until someone else says, "You know, that person is an asshole." So I'll be fooled by selective assholes sometimes . . . lately.” PeopleKnowsPersonsI CanSometimesRealizingNiceFooledSelective Author:Emma Stone
“It's really amazing to be a part of something that people have an emotional response to, even though it's a network sitcom. When you get a chance to meet fans or interact with them, you realize that there are a lot of people who the show speaks to, and that they really get something out of it, beyond just laughing. That's really fulfilling.” PeopleShowsSpeakRealizingChanceLaughingFansEmotionalResponseFulfillingSitcomReally AmazingEmotional Response Author:Gillian Jacobs
“You realize true magic of cinema when you put the right people together, at the right time, with the right kind of project, where they're not worried about their salary, they're not worried about their caravan.” PeopleKindTogetherRealizingMagicProjectsWorriedCinemaRight TimeSalaryCaravans Author:Jean-Marc Barr
“If you're a writer and you are at all inclined to speak as a Christian in some way, you realize very quickly that the conventional language is pretty much useless. It takes a long time to get past that, or it has taken me a long time. People in conventional Christianity have spoken lightly and sometimes frivolously of God for a long time. It's a word that needs to be used sparingly, in my opinion.” PeopleIfsWayNeedsLongSometimesChristianPastUsedSpeakLanguageRealizingChristianityOpinionTakenLong TimeUselessConventional Author:Wendell Berry
“Everything in business is to get you face to face with people to respond to your offer. You have to realize the Internet is merely a door opening, and it has to be followed up by aggressive sales activity by the business owner.” PeopleFacesRealizingDoorsInternetOffersActivityOpeningOwnersAggressiveFace To FaceBusiness Owners Author:Brian Tracy
“I love people. I love understanding people, why they do the things they do, and why they make the decisions they make. It kind of just over time escalated into realizing that I could... experience that interest and get paid at the same time.” PeopleKindUnderstandingInterestRealizingDecisionPaid Author:Charlie Barnett
“Jay-Z's a guy that wears the Che Guevara t-shirt and he doesn't realize Che Guevara was a racist. Che Guevara was a murderer and a killer. So look, he's an entertainer, obviously. He's not in the middle of any public discourse here. But I think it's important to point out when people take stances like this that are absurd.” PeopleThinkingLooksImportantGuyRealizingMiddleAbsurdShirtsRacistKillersDiscourseMurdererT ShirtEntertainersStancePublic Discourse Author:Marco Rubio
“There are tons of gay issues that are important, from gay marriage to adoption rights to work-place discrimination and more... but I think the biggest gay issue is the level of involvement of the gay community to demand change. So many gays think that other gays will take care of it. To fix this, people need to realize that they CAN make a change, but no one person can do it alone.” PeopleThinkingNeedsPersonsImportantCareCan DoRealizingCommunityLevelsIssuesRightsGayDemandTake CareDiscriminationAdoptionInvolvementMaking ChangesGay MarriageGay CommunityWork Place Author:Tyler Oakley
“I've come to realize that when people are not reaching their highest potential or whatever goals they set out for themselves, they're more inclined when they're going through pain. When they're going through a negative situation. They're more inclined to hear me than when they're doing well.” PeopleWellsPainGoalRealizingSituationHighestNegativeReaching Author:Eric Thomas
“The experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people. That is a remarkable thing, if you scream and everyone else in the audience screams, you realize that your fears are not just within yourself, they're in other people as well, and that's strangely releasing.” PeopleIfsWellsStillsStoriesFilmRealizingAudienceSeeingTheaterBunchRemarkableScreamCampfire Author:Wes Craven
“What people have to realize is that if one has a firm belief in God and the spirit then one does not make statements that are negative and untrue.” PeopleIfsDoeSpiritBeliefRealizingNegativeStatementsFirmUntrueBelief In GodFirm Beliefs Author:Prince
“I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety wasn't impossible.” PeopleRealizingLevelsImpossibleReachingNotorietyFamous WritersFoibles Author:Kirby Wright
“I always think back to my high school days and realize all the people who were so popular then are nowhere now and all the people who were steadfast and steady-going are somewhere. So high school doesn't necessarily translate to later in life.” PeopleThinkingSchoolRealizingHigh SchoolSteadyTranslateSteadfastLater In LifeSchool Days Author:Steve Martin
“I think a lot of people who watch TV don't realize when they're watch TV shows and it says 'produced by' and producer, producer... there are all these producers. What the hell does a producer do? It's funny how much you have to worry about as a producer.” PeopleThinkingDoeShowsRealizingWatchesWorryHellTvsProducersTv Shows Author:Demetri Martin
“Ninety percent of the people don't realize that there is anything below the head. They think that the head is carried around by something very mysterious, and they're not aware that it's the body, something they should be in tune with.” PeopleThinkingShouldBodyRealizingPercentMysteriousTunesNinety Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“I felt I should have been taught about the landmine problem. It made me suddenly realize certain things about the world and how much I had to learn, like the history of the people.” PeopleWorldShouldHas BeensMadeProblemCertainFeltRealizingTaughtShould HaveShould Have BeenLandmines Author:Angelina Jolie
“More and more people are finding out the benefits of it - hemp and marijuana. The more they delve into it and research it, the more they realize, Hey wait a minute, we should give this another look.” PeopleGivingShouldLooksWaitingRealizingMinutesBenefitsFindingsResearchHeyMarijuanaHemp Author:Willie Nelson
“As people become multisensory, they begin to realize that their lives are meaningful, that there's a purpose to all of their experiences - to the people that they meet, to the challenges that they have, that nothing is random.” PeoplePurposeRealizingChallengesMeaningful Author:Gary Zukav
“I think that it would be good for people to realize and understand that they are doing something to deal with their pain and they aren't really going to be allowed to escape it and outrun it forever without side effects and certain consequences, as far as emotional and mental happiness and their physical condition. And I'd like people to be aware of those things.” PeopleThinkingWould BePainCertainSidesRealizingDealsForeverConditionsEffectsEmotionalConsequenceBe GoodSide EffectsOutrun Author:Axl Rose
“A lot of people mistake the persona that I create in poetry and fiction with me. A lot of people claim to know me who don't really know me. They know the work, or they know the persona in the work, and they confuse that with me, the writer. They don't realize that the persona is also a creation and a fabrication, a composite of my friends and myself all pasted together.” PeopleKnowsTogetherRealizingMistakeFictionCreationMy FriendsClaimsKnow MePersonaFabricationComposites Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I was snorting a lot of cocaine and I had lost myself to a great degree. A lot of people, everybody was starting to realize what the coke was all about and they were all starting to get lost.” PeopleLostRealizingDegreesStartingCocaineCokeLost Myself Author:George Jung
“People get upset and it becomes an excuse to treat other people a certain way,but if you really step back, you realize what you've left behind.” PeopleIfsWayCertainLeftRealizingBehindsStepsTreatsExcuseUpsetLeft Behind Author:Maynard James Keenan
“Once you're out in a place where there's one sheriff for the county, people have to learn how to get along with each other and that means going to the dump illegally and dumping your garbage and hoping the guys don't call you on it and being terrified of this to your core until you realize after many years that the guys at the dump don't really care where your garbage is coming from.” PeopleYearsMeanCareGuyRealizingCoreTerrifiedGarbageCountyDumpSheriffs Author:John Hodgman
“If only we could realize that our purpose is to be caretakers. We are responsible for leading our flock to the place where the grass is green, but it is up to them to eat! We cannot be responsible for how much they digest. We cannot make people mature.” PeopleIfsPurposePeaceRealizingResponsibleGreenGrassMatureFlocksBeing ResponsibleCaretakers Author:T. D. Jakes
“I always think, quite frankly that pop culture is a lot more important than a lot of people realize.” PeopleThinkingImportantCultureRealizingPopsPop Culture Author:Hugh Hefner
“I think as you grow up, you realize you have obligations just in your life - being a citizen, being part of humanity - to help other people, to help your country, to help the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldCountryHelpingHumanityGrowsRealizingGrowing UpCitizensHelping OthersObligation Author:George Lucas
“In the end, the most important thing to me is that I've raised three kids. I know that'll be the most important accomplishment of my life and it is the most easily obtainable, because all you have to do is pay attention. It is hard work and most people don't realize that's the real gift they are getting in terms of goals and success and accomplishments.” PeopleKnowsImportantRealEndsHardKidsThreeGoalTermRealizingPayAttentionHard WorkImportant ThingsRaisedPay AttentionAccomplishment Author:George Lucas