Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all.

Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.

That day, I realized I had an unwelcome, uninvited, new life partner.

I wrote about Emily Apt who initially became a caseworker in the welfare system because she decided that was the most noble thing she could do, but quickly learned, not only did she not like it, but she wasn't really good at it.

Once I realized that I could take some liberties with the subject, I did the following series of drawings.

And I realized that, in order to know where I was going, I had to know where I'd been.

I was thinking, I just finished making another film about World War II vets, and I realized I'd gotten to know their stories, and I realized this was a once in a lifetime opportunity to tell a warrior's story as it unfolded.

And when I was writing my thesis on cell phones, I realized that everyone was carrying around wormholes in their pockets.

When I realized this, and when I look back on my time at the Security Council and what happened with the Kosovars, and I realize that often the people who were most directly affected by what we were doing in the Security Council weren't actually there, weren't actually invited to give their views to the Security Council, I thought, this is wrong.

But as I sat there for four hours, the full afternoon, reading Maslow, I recognized something that is true of most leaders.

But as we started asking ourselves about how we were addressing the higher needs of our employees and our customers, I realized we had no metrics.

And then writing, that's what happens. I get these hints, these clues, and I realize that they've been obvious, and yet they have not been.

And I realized just what had happened to me at Swarthmore, this transformation the ability to confront problems, complex problems, and to design solutions to those problems.

I mean it can be devastating, it can be revelatory, it can actually be quite funny, like my stupid Chinese character mistake.

Because I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

However, I came to realize gradually that they may be right and I have to convince all my colleagues that this is so, but I m working on it.

My mother's in the kitchen, cooking, and, of all places, in the hallway, I realize he's about to do it, about to take more than two steps.

As I looked at this list to me it was sort of like a psalm book of living I realized, we may have done it for our girls, but it really changed us.

Brothers, I don't regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

And I want to tell you when I first realized that women matter to the economy and to the society, I was seven it happened to be my mother's birthday October 24, 1975.

I realized then that I, who thought I had complete control of my life, had control of only three things My thought, my mind the images that these thoughts created and the action that derived from it.

And it was here, listening to these poets share their stories, that I learned that spoken word poetry didn't have to be indignant, it could be fun or painful or serious or silly.

When I grew up and realized that science fiction was not a good source for superpowers, I decided instead to embark on a journey of real science, to find a more useful truth.

But I have also recognized, in the course of seeing that violence, that being in the face of things and seeing actually what's in front of us is the antidote to depression and to a feeling that one is worthless and has no value.

And on the last day with this female where I thought I had pushed her too far, I got nervous because she came up to me, she rolled over on her back, and she did this deep, guttural jackhammer sound, this gokgokgokgok.

But as I was moving away from the traditional classical repertoire and trying to find new ways of musical expression, I realized that with today's technological resources, there's no reason to limit what can be produced at one time from a single string instrument.

Now, when you're only six years old, and your father comes home every single night and listens to you as I now realize that I, in excruciating detail, recounted every single play of every inning of the game that had just taken place that afternoon.

I realized then that these species and a large part of the other unique, marvelous animals and plants on that island and this is true of practically every part of the world which took millions of years to evolve, are in the process of disappearing forever.

And at some point I found out, when a kid like this gets into a fit, the best thing that you can possibly do is stay as close as possible to this kid, which is difficult, because what you really want to do is go away.

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And it was very difficult for me to imagine how to paint pictures that were based on Piero until I realized that I could look at Piero as nature that I would have the same attitude towards looking at Piero della Francesca as I would if I were looking out a window at a tree.

And so, for three years he was out, and he could only blink, and so I realized at this moment, I thought, wow how fragile is this thing we're wearing, this body and mind we're wearing, and so I thought, How do you go for it more?