Quotes About Awareness

That relative, that temporal plane -- where sensitivities vary, where no one has the same personal history even if they have the same communal history, where something which is a trigger for one person passes off unnoticed by another person -- definitely was the place where the raw living of life and the imperfect mental response to that raw living took place.

Okay,' I said. 'So if I were to stop walking-while-reading, and hands in pockets, and little night torches, and instead looked right and left and right again for dangerous, unscrupulous forces, does that mean I'll end up happy?' 'It's not about being happy,' he said, which was, and still is, the saddest remark I've ever heard.

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

To get a headline, to get on the evening news, you have to attack a Jew. Otherwise you're ignored. And it's a shame. And we all play into it.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.

I had very good eyes once. Though it's another thing to say what I saw. In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.

In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.

Un tempo avevo occhi molto buoni. Quello che hanno visto è un altro discorso. L'esperienza mi ha insegnato che si può guardar succedere qualcosa senza nemmeno vederlo.

Mais tu n'es pas aussi abruti qu'on le dit, quand même!.. Si, tu l'es?

Mais tu n'es pas aussi abruti qu'on le dit, quand même!.. Si, tu l'es?

Pour le moment, elle entendait encore le son de sa voix, mais... Jusqu'à quand?

After all, nobody else ever made a sketch of the dishes in your sink. That you probably can't think of a similar image is also helpful.

In addition, you can be sure your drawing of your surroundings will have a modest degree of originality. After all, nobody else ever made a sketch of the dishes in your sink. That you probably can't think of a similar image is also helpful.

You get so close to, and so wound up in, what you are trying to do that you can lose perspective. Your mind may trick you into seeing what you want to see, not what is really there.

I didn't think my mother was even consciously aware of what she was doing. She had convinced herself more than anyone else so that she would not feel the insufferable guilt that comes when you realize you have abused and betrayed your own children.

Dalton. We don't know where the others are. They were just behind us. I think we'd better wait for them.' 'I saw a cart pull out in front of them,' Sophie said. 'It'll have slowed them down.' Mr Lloyd looked round, frowning. 'No one's come to the door to check what we're

I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself.

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing.

I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.

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