All Quotes

I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.
‐‐ Ursula Burns

I realized I was never going to be Lance Armstrong. And in biking, if you want to make money, you have to be the best.
‐‐ Daniel Humm

I realized I was the one doing all the training, earning the money, and my parents were living off of me.
‐‐ Dominique Moceanu

I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues.
‐‐ Robert Cray

I realized if I didn't start talking to my relatives, asking questions, thinking back to my own beginnings, there would come a time when those people wouldn't be around to help me look back and remember.
‐‐ Jacqueline Woodson

I realized if I'm not really making an album, I don't have to be concerned about things like stylistic consistency, pacing, a coherent mood. All that stuff goes out the window.
‐‐ John Oates

I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.
‐‐ Erin Gruwell

I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it.
‐‐ Donald Johanson

I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
‐‐ Eddie Vedder

I realized it was happening, but most people didn't realize it was happening. I mean, because as a self-employed person, when there is a recession or a cutback in the economy, we feel it first. Because many self-employed people provide services that are nonessential.
‐‐ Iyanla Vanzant

I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.
‐‐ Martin Puryear

I realized just how much exercise and eating right make a difference in how you feel now and when you get older.
‐‐ Ashley Tisdale

I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.
‐‐ Yo-Yo Ma

I realized little by little that words are very powerful, and taking those words to encourage people rather than tear them apart was the desire of my heart.
‐‐ Tracie Peterson

I realized mechanical engineering doesn't much lend itself to missionary work.
‐‐ Tom Catena

I realized my calling was to use the arts and ministry to help young people.
‐‐ Ben Harney

I realized my dream and was proud to be a Superstar. I never won a title, but being hired by WWE and being a Superstar, to me, was like winning a championship.
‐‐ Robert Maillet

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.
‐‐ Anthony Anderson

I realized my life was not going to be, per se, normal.
‐‐ Josh Ryan Evans

I realized not long ago that by the time I leave this Earth, no matter when it is I will have officially only spent approximately 14 years of my life where I did not have to deal with cancer.
‐‐ Jenna Morasca

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.
‐‐ Philip Levine

I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
‐‐ Eberhard Weber

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.
‐‐ Nelson Mandela

I realized relatively early on that I had no desire to be a mother whatsoever. I actually love children, but specifically other people's.
‐‐ Cindy Gallop

I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.
‐‐ Lawrence Welk

I realized some time ago that, while there are really, really high quality schools in urban India - my daughter attends one - there are very few high quality schools in rural India. And that is mostly because of the perception that there are not enough people to pay a reasonable fee in rural India.
‐‐ Shaffi Mather

I realized that a lot of people in my family had sacrificed for me to have the opportunity to go to a place like Duke. I owed it to them to finish. I graduated with a 3.6.
‐‐ Mike Posner

I realized that a surf trip on a jet can be like a road trip. If you see a road you want to turn down, you can just go there.
‐‐ Nick Woodman

I realized that acting was something I wasn't going to be lazy about. You feel good when you do it well. It is something that can grow in you.
‐‐ Alison Elliott

I realized that acting was the thing I was still maybe the best at. Of the things I felt like I was good at, that was the thing that came the most naturally to me.
‐‐ Joseph Mazzello

I realized that, after tasting entrepreneurship, I had become unfit for the corporate world. There was no turning back. The only regret I had was having wasted my life in the corporate world for so long.
‐‐ Vivek Wadhwa

I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust in and rob a bank and jump in the screaming getaway car and tear through the city and get in a shootout.
‐‐ M. C. Gainey

I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of having fans that one day might criticize or abandon you, your fans aren't even fans. They're people with tastes similar to yours. They're friends you haven't met yet.
‐‐ Natalia Kills

I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.
‐‐ Andrew Wiles

I realized that becoming a doctor, I can only help a small community. But by becoming a politician, I can help my whole country.
‐‐ Malala Yousafzai

I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways.
‐‐ Kit Reed

I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It's the bully who's insecure.
‐‐ Shay Mitchell

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.
‐‐ Steve Martin

I realized that conventional views of Christian faith that I'd heard when I was growing up were simply made up - and I realized that many parts of the story of the early Christian movement had been left out.
‐‐ Elaine Pagels

I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
‐‐ Pat Metheny

I realized that every sermon I preached should be designed not to 'teach' or 'convert' people, but rather to encourage them, to give them a lift. I decided to adopt the spirit, style, strategy and substance of a 'therapist' in the pulpit.
‐‐ Robert H. Schuller

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.
‐‐ Robert Rodriguez

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
‐‐ Orson Scott Card

I realized that health is the most important thing and that all the other things come with time if you are devoted enough.
‐‐ Blanka Vlasic

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.
‐‐ Sam Hunt

I realized that I didn't need nearly as many calories as I'd grown accustomed to. I ate 100 to 200 calories every two hours or so, consumed healthy proteins (yogurt, lean meat, turkey jerky), and drank a gallon of water a day. And as my weight dropped, my energy soared.
‐‐ Adam Richman

I realized that I didn't want to do anything else. Plus, I realized I was good, and, most importantly, I actually loved to sing on stage.
‐‐ Alice Smith

I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I wasn't integrated. I wasn't a complete person. And after that, came out, spent some time at a psychiatric hospital.
‐‐ James McGreevey

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.
‐‐ Richard Foreman

I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.
‐‐ Alma Guillermoprieto