“My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most, I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that it's not the healthiest way to live, but it's all I really have time for.” WayLittlesMightWould BeRealizingHoursMomProudLateWake UpMy MomDinnerBreakfastWay To LiveInappropriateSnacksProud Of Me Author:Aaron Levie
“It often takes catching a glimpse of how our life would be without something that's valuable to us for us to realize just how valuable it is.” InspirationalWould BeRealizingOur LivesValuableGlimpseCatching Author:Hal Elrod
“Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and intertwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally, I do not mean figuratively, but literally impossible for us to figure what the loss would be if these teachings were removed. We would lose all the standards by which we now judge both public and private morals; all the standards toward which we, with more or less resolution, strive to raise ourselves.” IfsThinkingMenMeanWholeWould BeSocialRealizingLosesLossMoralImpossibleTeachingFiguresJudgingStandardsRaisesStrivePresidentialResolutionCivicsSocial LifeIntertwinedThinking Man Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“This thing about getting rid of a man in the Cabinet is all right, but there is one bad feature to it that few people realize. That is, that unfortunately every one of them is replaced by someone else. If it wasn't for that, this resignation business would be great.” PeopleIfsMenGovernmentWould BeRealizingFeaturesReplacedCabinetsResignation Author:Will Rogers
“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.” Has BeensDreamWould BeYoungRealizingYouth Author:Jean Genet
“The person who appreciates a great work of art has the feeling that the work grows in him as he becomes involved in a prolonged capturing of emerging marginal meanings. He feels that he, too, is creative, that he himself is adding to his experience and understanding. Moreover, he wants to confront the work of art many times. He is not easily tired of it, as he would be had he read a purely logical statement. He realizes that the work of art does not merely transmit information; it produces pleasure.” WantFeelsPersonsDoeArtFeelingsWould BeGrowsUnderstandingRealizingPleasureCreativeInformationProduceInvolvedAppreciateTiredStatementsLogicalWorks Of ArtGreat WorkEmergingTransmit Book:Creativity: The Magic Synthesis Source: Creativity: The Magic Synthesis
“When I was three, my dad thought it would be hilarious to teach me swear words, then have me say them to his friends. They would laugh and laugh. I realize now the laugh was pure shock value, but it felt really good, and I've been chasing it ever since.” Would BeValuesThreeFeltRealizingTeachLaughingComedyDadPureMy DadShockSwearChasingSwear WordShock Value Author:Sarah Silverman
“I may be biased, but I tend to find a much lower tendency among female programmers to be dishonest about their skills, and thus do not say they know C++ when they are smart enough to realize that that would be a lie for all but perhaps 5 people on this planet.” PeopleKnowsMayEnoughWould BeLyingRealizingPlanetsSkillsSmartFemaleTendenciesProgrammersBiased Author:Erik Naggum
“When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it continued to move as we see it moving now. We do not realize that it moves not in a straight line and that its direction changes constantly.” IfsThinkingWorldMindWould BeMovingRealizingLinesStraight Lines Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein
“What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals.” BelieveWould BeAbleGoalRealizingAtheismPositive AtheismOpponents Author:Jean Rostand
“I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done.” WayWritingStatesDoneSeemsWould BePoetryRealizingBrainGreaterTearsPoetCreatingTasksFishesRefuseTortureMusclesNervesPassagesDeniedOrgansAgonyJellyPoint Break Author:Amy Lowell
“I think emotional and mental pain is probably worse than physical pain. I think we don't realize that I have no arms or legs but we all have disabilities of some sort, some fear, some lost, some wishes that didn't come true, things we wish would be better.” ThinkingWould BePainLostWishRealizingEmotionalArmsLegsDisabilityPhysical PainTrue ThingsMental Pain Author:Nick Vujicic
“When you realize that someone doesn't like you, don't dwell on it. You do not need everyone to like you. Anyone who feels they need to be liked by everyone likely doesn't realize how exhausting this would be if it were to actually happen. Be thankful that there are those who want to ignore you. There is only one you. Charge admission.” IfsWantNeedsFeelsHappensWould BeRealizingLike YouBeing ThankfulExhaustingAdmission Author:Nick Burd
“Families have always been in flux and often in crisis; they have never lived up to nostalgic notions about "the way things used tobe." But that doesn't mean the malaise and anxiety people feel about modern families are delusions, that everything would be fine if we would only realize that the past was not all it's cracked up to be. . . . Even if things were not always right in families of the past, it seems clear that some things have newly gone wrong.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsMeanSeemsWould BePastUsedRealizingGoneClearModernFineAnxietyCrisisNotionDelusionNostalgicCrackedFluxMalaiseModern Family Author:Stephanie Coontz
“Filmmaking is essentially about entertainment, but it's amazing to realize that it has this other muscle that could actually help. Do you know what I mean? People permit entertainment to wash over them, but every once and a while, entertainment - and this is entertaining - also galvanizes something else and that would be a really good thing to have happen in this case.” PeopleKnowsMeanHelpingHappensWould BeRealizingCasesGood ThingsEntertainmentMusclesDo You KnowPermitEntertainingFilmmakingMean People Author:Ken Burns
“If we start worrying whether our nose is too big or too small, we should think, “What if I had no head? - now that would be a problem!” As long as we have life, we should rejoice. If everything doesn't go exactly as we'd like, we can accept it. If we contemplate impermanence deeply, patience and compassion will arise. We will hold less to the apparent truth of our experience, and the mind will become more flexible. Realizing that one day this body will be buried or burned, we will rejoice in every moment we have rather than make ourselves or others unhappy.” IfsThinkingShouldMindLongMomentsProblemBodyBigsWould BeRealizingCompassionAcceptingWorryOne DayUnhappyAriseNosesWhat IfBuriedRejoiceContemplatingBurnedFlexibleImpermanence Author:Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
“Youth would be too happy, might it add to its own beauty and felicity the wisdom and experience of riper years. Were it possible for it to realize the worth of time, as life's receding hours reveal it, how rapidly would it press on towards perfection!” YearsMightWould BeRealizingHoursYouthPerfectionPressesAddFelicityWisdom And Experience Author:Lydia Sigourney
“God alone fully understands what each one of us needs; we make mistakes continually and pray for things which would be harmful to us if we received them. Afterwards we see our mistakes and realize that God is good and wise in not giving us these things, even though we plead ever so earnestly for them.” IfsNeedsGivingWould BeRealizingMistakeWisePrayingMaking MistakesWe Make Mistakes Book:Prayer Source: Prayer
“For Dad, the perfect Father's Day would be one in which he didn't even realize that it was Father's Day, because nobody was making him appreciate gifts he didn't want, or read greeting cards filled with lame Father's Day poetry.” WantWould BeFatherRealizingPerfectDadAppreciateFilledCardsLameGreetingsGreeting CardPerfect Father Author:Dave Barry
“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
“It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.” PeopleIfsWould BeHappinessRealizingAddGreat Things Book:The Pleasures of the Life Source: The Pleasures of the Life
“I do feel blessed to be in the public eye so I can share what I believe. But I think it would be extremely disappointing if I were to count on it to provide happiness. I've come to realize that any time I do that, the fulfillment is short-lived at best.” IfsThinkingFeelsBelieveI CanWould BeEyeI BelieveRealizingShareBlessedFulfillmentDisappointingPublic EyeShort Lived Author:Alanis Morissette
“The NAACP is a wonderful organization . . . But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be outta work?” IfsWould BeRealizingMorningWonderfulTomorrowCatOrganizationIntegrationTomorrow MorningNaacp Author:Dick Gregory