Neil Burger Quotes

You never know what show is going to change your life.

Meeting Chet was a life changing moment for me.

Let me say that discovering Tagore was the turning point of my life.

'The Fall' changed my life - that's not an overstatement.

In literature there was always an epiphany - a tingling moment, sometimes buried - the pearl around which the whole work formed.

We always have that one special moment that could be anything that changes our lives forever.

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

When you want something so bad and when something great happens, I think it's instinct that you say, 'This is gonna be the moment that's gonna change everything. Everybody is gonna see me a different way.'

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

I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.

When I started my program... there was a big clock in the corner and I looked and it said nine o'clock exactly. And it was funny, because when I was standing on the podium, it said exactly 10 p.m., and this whole hour had changed my life.

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

People say it takes 10 years to change your life. It's bullshit. It takes a moment, a second. But it may take you 10 years to get to the point of finally saying, "Enough."

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

And more importantly, I wouldn't be the person I am today, I wouldn't be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasn't for the accident.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Incarceration didn't change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.

As soon as I did, everything, the whole room, just clicked.

Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

Eureka [I have found it]

All of us are looking for an outside ordeal that will internally change us.

My life since the Miss Universe win has changed completely, in fact I do not think my life will ever be the same again.

That was a very aha moment. It was, 'I'm in the big leagues.'