I’ve done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can’t use it for progress.
The whole background of ‘Avian’ is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you can touch music.
I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.
In particular, the film ‘Excalibur’ was definitely one of those films that was instrumental in me realizing that I wanted to become an actor.
When I left my grandmother’s home in 1986 headed to Savannah State with two brown grocery bags filled with my belongings, nothing was going to keep me from realizing my dreams.
So I got into growing grapes, not realizing that there was a heck of a lot more to it than meets the eye.
I am constantly distracted by my own brain when I’ve completed a paragraph, realized I don’t know what comes next, and start opening a browser tab without even realizing it.
People are realizing that podcasting is special.
Clients are becoming more global; they’re realizing that markets are more interconnected. It’s no longer the local regional clients buying the local regional flavors. It’s everybody asking for everything.
You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.
Pop culture does not frequently depict women of color realizing their happy ending.
Growing up it was the exception because I was maybe the only one in my school or my circle of friends that had that experience. But now that I know more people in the industry, I am realizing this happens to almost everybody.
Before, I had an idea of what I thought I needed to be, and I’m realizing more and more that being yourself is the best thing.
I’ve been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn’t told very often.
Virtual reality, all the A.I. work we do, all the robotics work we do – we’re as close to realizing science fiction as it gets.
If you’re grappling with punches involved, you start realizing you only use certain guards. There are 3-4 different guards that you use – half-guard, open guard, and closed guard – the majority of the time.
Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as an abstract painting. People bring their own beliefs and attitudes to your work, which is thrilling and surprising at the same time.
Howard University shocked me into realizing how desperately sick the Negro could be, how he could be led into self-destruction, and how he would not realize that it was the society that had forced him into a great sickness.
Honestly, I think I was in kindergarten. I remember seeing a play and realizing that was what I wanted to do. I remember always wanting to retreat to my room or somewhere private to play pretend by myself.
I got through college realizing business was repugnant.
Part of an ensemble show is realizing it’s a collaboration. It’s like a symphony. Everybody takes their turn, but it’s really the collective group that matters.
We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.
I’m not into organized religion. I’m into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we’re all just part of nature.
‘The Skeptical Environmentalist’ was much more the idea of the scientific argument of realizing that we need to be skeptical about a lot of these stories that we hear and to put them in context.
I’ve always prided myself on working so hard and then achieving goals without realizing the pleasure is often in the journey. And actually, the journey can be just as fun, if not more so, than the outcome.
At Adaptive Path, we’ve been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we’re realizing we’ve only scratched the surface of the rich interaction and responsiveness that Ajax applications can provide.
‘Activate Your Goodness’ explains how we all have a stake in our collective future, each and every person in their own unique way. As I see it, it is all about personally taking responsibility for our actions, and fully realizing that by thinking good, speaking good and doing good, you can find your place in life.
We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn’t just being book-smart or having a college degree; it’s trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
I was in a bookstore one afternoon, and I stumbled across this book called ‘A Guide to Film Schools.’ I always loved movies growing up and had never even conceived that it was something you could do for a living. Realizing most of them were in Los Angeles and knowing that was warm, I ended up applying.
The cause of the WPK is a sacred historic cause for fully realizing the independence of the masses of the people, the cause of the Juche revolution.
Political leaders in Illinois kicked the can down the road, raised taxes, and ignored fiscal realities. Now, they’re realizing the consequences of their actions: credit downgrades and negative outlooks.
After a young adulthood trying to get him to see the world for how it really is, my brother Wes and I have come back to the way our dad is, realizing that it’s sometimes our job to see the world as it could be, as we want it to be.
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.
I was hanging out with some of my friends who are on television shows, and when we went to get lunch, people came up to me and not them. It was this really weird moment where you’re realizing that the digital world is getting so big, and it’s colliding with everything else.
There are so many hard-wired ideas we’ve grown up with that we’re now realizing are unacceptable.
It’s actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you’re playing and then letting go, just being there.
We had a simple 8-track studio set up in the record store where I worked. And just staying after work and experimenting, realizing what was possible with recording – that’s why my project was called The Microphones at first. Because it wasn’t even songs really. It was just sound.
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.
I’ve wondered if ‘Harry Potter’ would have been as big if it was ‘Harriet Potter.’ Now that I’ve written a screenplay – and raising a son in particular – I’m looking at story content and realizing how limited women are onscreen.
I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they’re wrong. And not just admitting it; also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they’re making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right.
I started to have almost a realization that a lot of the evangelical leaders I looked up to and found hope in – I started realizing a lot of them just weren’t the people I thought they were.
The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you’re realizing how great they are.
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
We all have choices to make in life. And when we decide to go down that wrong road we’d be better off backing up and realizing that not only do you affect your life with some terrible choices, but the lives of people you love the most, and that’s your family.
Too many companies are reluctant to share technical information about threats with each other, and most open platforms and tools don’t see widespread adoption. As a result, lots of us are reinventing the wheel and solving the same problems without realizing that our neighbors have already built great solutions.
The big thing was realizing for myself that I had tied my ego to the outcomes and to startups.
Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we’re sure of.
By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.
I think what’s good is that men are now realizing that life is not a buffet where you just get to pick and choose whatever you want.
