Parenting, she says, means "realizing that someone else's needs are more important than your own".
About the compulsions and convictions of her subjects Jamison is compassionate without being partial: "Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges".
Furthermore, it means realizing that human identity is a constantly shifting target.
Accepting your addiction means realizing that your entire life will be different from that point onward.
It means realizing what your beliefs are and living by them.
And it means realizing the full potential of voluntary medical male circumcision.
For the underdeveloped countries it means realizing that the only certain way of improving their position is to increase their productive efficiency, and that this must depend largely upon their own efforts.
Being humble does not mean acting ashamed, it means realizing that you're not better than anybody else - just as they are not better than you.
This week, it meant realizing that inelastic can be another word for brittle, and that everything can break.
For Faye Milbourne, training for a second career meant realizing, "I don't need the attaboys and the kudos I needed when I was a career person," she said.
