“My first real breakthrough was realizing that my paintings didn't have to be a representation of a thing, but could be the thing itself.”— Morris Graves
“It is also a victory for the man who opened his eyes and realized that he is part of a whole.”— Thor Heyerdahl
“He had never been jealous of me for a second. Now I knew that there never was and never could have been any rivalry between us. I was not of the same quality as he.”— John Knowles
“Had I realized in the beginning that the fighting was part of a larger civil war in which the foreign mujahideen were aligned with the Taliban, I would not have joined.”— John Walker Lindh
“For the first time, I'm looking in your eyes. For the first time, I'm seeing who you are.”— Kenny Loggins
“Realization is nothing to be gained anew; it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought 'I have not realized'.”— Ramana Maharshi
“For the first time in my life I began to realize that it is not of the least importance what you think. It is what you do that counts.”— Ernest Poole
“I was a professional baseball player, but I reached a point where I realized that I wasn't going to be a big-league player.”— Kurt Russell