Realizing Quotes

• Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Go in fear of abstraction.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Expression
  • Image
  • Abstraction

• As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it, I realize how poor a creature I am, how impotent are words in the presence of such perfection.

  

  Celia Thaxter
  • Trying
  • Beauty
  • Flower

• Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Color
  • Acting
  • Realizing

• If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Goal
  • Building
  • Climbing

• Other than a couple of moments in time, I always thought that, some way, I'm going to make it. I'm just going to make it. And I'm not going to give up. And I'm going to realize that dream. So, I never gave up. And I have realized the dream, and I enjoy every moment of every day.

  

  Tommy Hilfiger
  • Dream
  • Moments
  • Couple

• Often when we realize how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realize too late.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Moments
  • Realizing

• Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Beautiful
  • Color
  • Behinds

• And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Sometimes
  • Poverty
  • Persistent

• A lot of the times you read something and you don't realize that you are going to have to do the things that you read.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Realizing

• I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

  

  Ricky Williams
  • Realizing

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