Top 50 Realising Quotes

You start realising as you get older that there are some kids who don’t know who you are.

I’ve always been good at realising what went wrong and stuff, and I was always being able to look at the positives from it.

More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they’ve got to go about it themselves – they can’t depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what’s going on all over the world.

I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

An artist or a writer can boast about working for himself, but it would be highly irresponsible of a director to say such a thing as the sweat of many people is involved in realising his dream and he should respect that.

People are realising that vulnerability isn’t a weakness, and the rise of mental health-related humour is making vulnerability feel like a strength.

One of the things I noticed in my career that gave me a lot of happiness early on was realising we don’t have any control.

I remember singing as a chorister in Peterborough Cathedral, having won a music scholarship to go to school there, and realising for the first time in my life what true excellence was.

Your calves, biceps and neck should always be the same size in inches. Mine are 16 inches – anything bigger or smaller and you know you’re going wrong! Most men ignore working out the legs and glutes, not realising that they are the pillars of our core.

I nearly died with the peritonitis, but not the heart attack. The heart attack was like bad indigestion and two weeks later I was back in shouting at people. I was shouting at people during the heart attack. I had it for three days without realising what it was.

I wrote ‘Knots and Crosses,’ the first of the Rebus books, not even realising that I was writing crime fiction.

I love being in my forties. Just getting there and realising that you haven’t grown horns or boils on your bum, when all the time it had been this thing looming in the future, is such a relief.

Cocktail’ happened overnight for me. I didn’t have the time to think about it, I suddenly got into films without even realising what I was doing.

As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It’s about realising things can’t be perfect.

But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix.

I think I’m realising that careers for tennis players are very short. On the women’s side now, players are starting to peak later on, but the average age is about 31, 32 when you finish playing, so I want to make the most of it while I’m young, fit, and healthy. I don’t want to waste any time.

A few years ago, I fell in love with a man before realising he was married.

I’m used to realising all my dreams and targets through my determination and ambition.

I had a few problems. I didn’t realise it until I started going to therapy. I did it for 10 years, two days a week, and pretty quickly I understood that a lot of my suffering, many of my issues, were rooted in my realising that I was gay when I was a little boy. I knew I was different. That made me very fragile.

St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing.

Trivially speaking, ecological awareness means realising that beings are interconnected in some way, but then we have to figure out what this interconnection actually means.

I think I’m realising more and more that I’ve got a job to do and I can’t be doing the big nights out and working to my full potential the next day. I feel much better for it.

The Indian audience is getting exposed to world cinema and realising the power of unique plots and distinct characters.

I remember sitting on a bench in New York and sobbing and realising that my ambition to be a singer was making me selfish – I was a mother with two children, and I needed a backup plan.

People have dreams, don’t they? Young people have enormous vision for their futures. I think a lot of them are realising that they won’t necessarily be Robbie Williams but they might be brilliant businessmen and businesswomen.

I am hurt that some people criticise very harshly without even realising the hardships which we go through.

As the CG in motion capture made it look realistic, it put more of an onus on the game makers to make the dialogue they’re saying more realistic. It doesn’t matter what they say when they’re 8-bits, but if they look almost photo-real, it matters. More and more, the games industry is realising that.

I started realising I’m bigger and stronger than a lot of the full-backs. I was expecting everyone in the Prem to be so strong.

The secret of success lies in realising one’s mistake, understanding where one went wrong and taking steps to rectify that mistake.

I didn’t have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don’t.

I’m beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism without really realising it.

Rebuilding Kerala has to do with creating climate-resilient infrastructure and realising sustainable livelihoods.

Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who’ve got an incredible talent was just a great experience.

More girls are taking up sport and realising it’s a legitimate option for them to forge a career.

Our North East region will prosper when it is better connected to South East Asia, and when the North East becomes our bridge to South East Asia, we will be closer to realising our hopes for India and ASEAN ties.

I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We’re just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all.

I think realising that you’re individual and unique is really amazing.

‘The Great British Bake Off’ is family entertainment. There aren’t many programmes where all ages can sit and watch from beginning to end. Everything else is violent, cruel, and noisy. We’re educational without viewers realising it.

When I was starting a small printing shop in Wembley, I vividly remember coming out of the cinema, realising I had spent the two hours worrying about that month’s payroll, rather than focusing on the film.

I’ve always had a passion for acting, without really realising that that’s what I should be doing.

There are lots of ideas which extend the Copernican principle one step further. We went from the solar system to the galaxy to zillions of galaxies and now to realising even that isn’t all there is.

My parents did call me Zowie now and then, but then, realising that it drew too much attention, they called me ‘Joe’. Then, later, I sort-of co-opted my own name back.

I think we are realising that governments can’t govern us any more.

I’ve not done badly for a boy from Stockwell, where I used to gaze at the silver screen in wonderment, little realising I’d be a part of this magical world.

The best way of realising our high ideals is to show that we have an alternative in government that is credible, that is radical, and is electable – is neither a pale imitation of what the Tories offer nor is it the route to being a party of permanent protest rather than a party of government.

I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn’t have a name, so I thought ‘Okay, I’ll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine’, before realising that name was so long it’d drive me mad.

It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.

I was living in San Francisco so I got back into yoga, bought myself a mountain bike and a puppy, and started living my life. And incidentally, I started making a record without realising it.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.

I think that with piracy and tighter funds being around, people are realising that the game to play is to try and win people’s respect with bold film making and then win a special place in people’s collections, rather than just having the biggest opening weekends.