#realize

It's hard sometimes to take a step back and realize what's happened because you're always trying to move forward. You're always looking at the next palette. ↗

— Alexander Wang

#back #because #forward #happened #hard

I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized. ↗

— Vera Wang

#box #challenge #clothes #creating #give

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means. ↗

— Chris Ware

#also #during #earlier #false #found

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything. ↗

— Alan Watts

#connected #everything #far #forest #get

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. ↗

— Alan Watts

#future #i #illusions #past #past and future

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. ↗

— Alan Watts

#hands #only #people #process #realize

As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#art #away #born #cannot #communicate

Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing. ↗

— Billy Graham

#lost #once #privacy #realize #thing

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

#failed #harder #i #just #made

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#billion #century #end #environmental #had