It’s hard to keep going when it seems like you’re not getting anywhere, but you’ll never succeed if you stop. Those of us with a dream that seems so far from being realized must remember that the road is long, but only those who stay on the path will reach their destination

After becoming deaf, I realized that I’d better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.

Well actually I’m not a man but a carrot. The band was eating salads one day and a carrot fell off of the salad bar onto a microphone and the band realized that they had just discovered something brilliant. Me

I stopped showering ever since I realized water causes people to drown. I cannot risk being so close to something that can murder me. Do you let killers into your house? Oh, but you let a murderer come out of your own faucet. Hypocrite.

It wasn’t until I was in college that I even realized how much I loved film and started to appreciate acting, this beautiful medium of artistic expression. All I wanted to do was go to college, and I thought I wanted to be a teacher.

I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film.

God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint

I would love to have a career like Zinedine Zidane. He stopped playing, took some time, realised he liked coaching, and started working in the youth academy. I could follow a similar path.

I feel very fortunate to have realized my dream in the early part of life.

I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.

But we looked at it and realised it could be achievable if we managed it right and I’ve got great support from the National Lottery, psychologists, physios and all the coaches.

I respect Test cricket a lot. Once I got into the Test team, I learnt so much about international cricket and realised it’s not so different.

The game begins when you step into the ballpark, and it never really ends.

I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance

You come to a point in your life when you really don’t care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself

Titanic Thompson and Amarillo Slim would have run from a game with Marty Stanovich. Marty could really play, and he didn’t cheat

Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you’ve lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of ‘the arts’ began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we’re the parents of Iggy Pop.

I am a promoter of ideas. I have to sell ideas that will be realized by others.

At 22, there’s a lot of trying to figure out love, which at the end of the day, I’ve realized I’ll never figure out, though the process of trying is fun.

I woke up and realized life is great and people are awesome and life is worth living.

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.

I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they’re passionate about, something that’s challenging and worthwhile.

I have unemployed my girlfriend. She had a job working for a cardiologist and now she can hang out, put her feet up, buy all the things she wants, have a nice breakfast with you and me in the Four Seasons. Any fights in families like mine come from everyone worrying about money. I’m taking all those worries away. That makes me feel happy, makes me really proud of what I do.

In general, I like the healthy stuff and don’t really have a problem with any of it.

Some of the generals are saying, ‘We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.’ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness

I always knew I had a voice and I’ve always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it’s the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it’s what I’m most talented at and what I love to do the most.

First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I’d just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories

Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have. So let us leave behind all these boys’ philosophies–these over simple answers. The problem is not simple and the answer is not going to be simple either.

A man cannot serve two masters: so it is either reason or the scriptures.

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

What I know for sure: Often we don’t even realize who we’re meant to be because we’re so busy trying to live out someone else’s ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

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.

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

I’ve realized that my comfort zone is more like an uncomfortable studio apartment.

There comes a moment when we all must realize that life is short, and in the end the only thing that really counts is not how others see us, but how God sees us.

The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more amazing becomes what human beings have achieved.

All the conditions of happiness are realized in the life of the man of science.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

Sometimes I wonder will God ever forgive us for what we’ve done to each other? Then I look around and I realize God left this place a long time ago.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

I realize that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that’s the end of it. You have to realize that we are just clowns for hire.

In this business, by the time you realize you are in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless your running scared all the time, you’re gone.

I knew it was a great mistake for a man like me to fall in love.

The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo

We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society

Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.

Study the Art of Science, study the Science of Art. Develop your senses, especially learn how to see, realize that everything connects to everything else.

When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God

I realized that part of my identity is saying no to things I don’t wanna do. … It is your right to choose what you do and don’t do. It is your right to choose what you believe in and don’t believe in. It is your right to curate your life and your own perspective.

My job, I realized, was to be myself, to speak as myself. And so I did.

In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I’ve been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.

I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it