Awakening Quote by Jack Kemp

From the very beginning, I had an ambition for 'The Luminaries': a direction - but not a real idea.

— Eleanor Catton

I always felt I had to prove my intelligence.

— Steph McGovern

And so I came to understand why some masters sometimes say, "You are already enlightened."

— Eckhart Tolle

For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no…

— Rene Descartes

I was very intellectually oriented, very early on.

— Donald Johanson

I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it…

— David Foster Wallace

In the wider context, what I believe I was - the point I was making was that our life experiences do permit us to…

— Sonia Sotomayor

It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of…

— Bertrand Russell

It is possible to wake up very quickly, to become enlightened, or you can do it gradually.

— Frederick Lenz

was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial?

— Ian Mcewan

I always had the belief in my ability. I just needed something to prove it to myself.

— Steve Smith

It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right…

— Francis Crick