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Two key preconditions become clear. First, the sheer size of the network: you can't have an epiphany with only three neurons firing. — Steven Johnson

I have no idea what to do with myself. And while I wait for my epiphany, I feel the toxins collecting in my body. — Inio Asano

The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany. — Rebecca Solnit

It should have been the epiphany of the sixties. Instead it turned out to be its requiem, — David Winner

I think the biggest shift has been in realizing how much more we are creating our life than we realize. That was sort of the epiphany to me. — Lauren Bowles

I just had a epiphany, I need to go to Tiffany's — Nicki Minaj

I thought guys were complicated. Maybe they are. But maybe they're easy and it's really me who's complicated. — Robin Brande

An epiphany is a visceral understanding of something you already know. — Jen Sincero

It's funny how some things are just words until one day, it happens to you, and it's like an epiphany. — Cheryl McIntyre

Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political. — Gene Wilder

Now, what's stirring in this murky sea of complexity and foolishness is an almost suffocating need to breathe fresh history. — Laurie Perez

Barfield understood his epochal experience are not as a rebound from love sickness, but as a spiritual epiphany that cured a spiritual illness. — Philip Zaleski

You never know when an epiphany will strike. — Susane Colasanti

And then it all came rushing back; that's when I realized I'll never stop having a thing for you. — Ahmed Mostafa

I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em ... — Richard Wright

People have moments of consciousness and epiphanies throughout their lives, but then suppress the realization. — Bryant McGill

I think for anyone who's gone through a crisis, there comes a turning point, an epiphany, that marks the beginning of the end. — Deborah Norville

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness. — John F. Kennedy

mid-descent testing out some unassisted flight epiphany that came to him as he slept. — Allan J. Ashinoff

He's just not that into you. — Greg Behrendt

Nearly every major innovation of the 20th century took place without claims of epiphany. — Scott Berkun

Every moment an epiphany arrives, and cleaves the mountain asunder. — Kim Stanley Robinson

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking — Albert Einstein

Sometimes you go so far in your life,
you can't get back
though you know it's not really your life. — Michael Hogan

So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it. — Margaret George

Truth is always a turning point. — Sheila Walsh

I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. — Nick Hornby

I'm suspicious of epiphanies, because they so rarely last. — Tom Barbash

I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level. — Diane Paulus

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had. — Alice Sebold

I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe. — Donna Tartt

And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany. — Ned Vizzini

What exactly was the difference? he wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms? — John Boyne

Change is an action not just an epiphany! — Garrison Wynn

In the moment, an epiphany feels like hell. — Anonymous

Without the quest, there can be no epiphany. — Constantine E. Scaros

There's nothing better when something comes and hits you and you think 'YES'! — J.K. Rowling

I've always said that a taxi is a terrible place to have an epiphany ... — Gary Reilly

Oh, am I glad to know that after all these years it still is hard trying to unlove someone; if there's such a thing... — Ahmed Mostafa

Shh," I interrupted him. "Hold on a second. I think I'm having an epiphany here. — Stephenie Meyer

This is an epiphany moment, I can either sink or swim — Jamie Scallion

Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies. — Phil Cousineau

I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany. — Erica Jong

This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on. — John Irving

Discovering your calling is not an epiphany but a series of intentional decisions. It looks less like a giant leap and more like building a bridge. — Jeff Goins

Sorry, but the whole walking corpse epiphany kind of threw me off my game. — Rachel Vincent

We're never the same person twice. — Jennifer-Crystal Johnson

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination. — Brad Pitt

When things suck, time stands still, but when you have an epiphany and you're having the time of your life, it goes by in fast forward. — Brent Crawford

Small things start us in new ways of thinking — V.S. Naipaul

She scowled at him until a light appeared in her intelligent eyes, as if she had had an epiphany. Are you an illegal alien? — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good. — Chuck Close

Fame is an epiphany of bubbles that are transient and pugnacious. — Debasish Mridha

Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band. — Bob Geldof

Life is a journey of realization, which often ends in that place where dreams never begin. — Qosmic Qadence

It hit me then, my epiphany. Death is a constant, but love? It is rare. — Ilsa Madden-Mills

Sometimes violence is necessary to prevent even more violence, I concluded, almost as if it were an epiphany. — Zack Love

My songs tend to sprint toward some epiphany and then explode. — John Darnielle

The epiphany for me was that I wasn't a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters. — Jenny Holzer

...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable. — Ruth Dugdall

The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history. — Sol Luckman

I had an epiphany: I was a loser. — Aleksandar Hemon

If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do. — Joss Whedon

Mrs. Olinski was the first teacher Epiphany ever had who taught from a wheelchair. — E.L. Konigsburg

The thing about changing the world ... Once you do it, the world's all different. — Joss Whedon

It was an epiphany, the kind only a horrible trauma can induce. — Jacquelyn Mitchard

And of course, the answer came to me in the same way Jesus comes to those who drink in trailers: as an epiphany. — Augusten Burroughs

I was born on a bench in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, in the early spring of 1960. — Andre Brink

We fit the pieces of our life together in a pattern,
but there is no image on the puzzlebox to guide us. — Michael Hogan

an epiphany: every lesson I learned fell into better management of one of three categories: my time, my attention, and my energy. — Chris Bailey

when you reach a point where you can distinguish between the things you thought you wanted and the things you actually need, that is an epiphany. — Paul Stanley

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany. — Christian Wiman

Every decade or so, Hollywood has an epiphany. It turns out faith-based audiences enjoy going to the movies, too. — David Harsanyi

And while some healing does happen, it isn't a healing of redemption or epiphany. It's more like the slow absorption of a bruise. — Joan Wickersham

There is no such thing as a silent, personal epiphany. — Tim W. Burke

Conversion isn't, after all, a moment: It's a process, and it keeps happening, with cycles of acceptance and resistance, epiphany and doubt. — Sara Miles

It's a wonderful epiphany: with a lie I can change reality; with a lie I can change the world. — Brady Udall

If you have too many epiphanies, you're on some kind of drug. — Barry Diller

Has a world composed of "us" and "not us" been invaded at last? — Bisco Hatori

Whose little boy are you? — James Baldwin

Sex is the divine in its most available epiphany. — Huston Smith

Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany. — Atul Gawande

The great epiphany of man is the recognition of the transience of now. — Beverley Sylvester

I realised that in my epiphany of Win El Over, I had grown a fucking vagina. — Becca Lee

Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty. — Thomas Merton

Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being. — Ananda K. Coomaraswamy