Quotes About Awareness

Merely pursuing a goal can cause us to fail to notice what's right in front of us. That's certainly what happened to Stewart Butterfield when he had Slack under his nose. He couldn't fully appreciate its potential until he quit Glitch, closing that account and forcing him back into exploration mode.

Small changes in how much you notice the luck that you would otherwise overlook will have a big influence on the way your life turns out. Those small changes act like compounding interest that pays big dividends on your future decision-making.

I can say that Nick the Greek lost a lot of money based on his beliefs—or, more accurately, because he ignored lots of feedback that his strategy was a losing one. He eventually went broke because he didn't recognize learning opportunities as they arose.

The challenge is not to change the way our brains operate but to figure out how to work within the limitations of the brains we already have. Being aware of our irrational behavior and wanting to change is not enough, in the same way that knowing that you are looking at a visual illusion is not enough to make the illusion go away.

Memory creep is the reconstruction of your memory of what you knew that hindsight bias creates.

Il silenzio era il sottofondo delle cose e la bicicletta misurava la velocità della vita.

Aujourd'hui, je sens réellement le temps reculer vers la réception de demain, c'est-à-dire m'emporter vers la vérité, que je lirai dans ses paroles et son comportement, sans que je puisse résister.

Il sait maintenant détacher les jarretelles. J'écris cela parce que, plus tard, c'est cela qui sera important, ce détail.)

L'unica felicità reale è quella di cui ti accorgi mentre la vivi.

Aveam privilegiul de a trai inca de la inceput, in mod constant, pe deplin constienta, ceea ce intotdeauna sfarsesti prin a descoperi cu stupoare si descumpanire, barbatul pe care-l iubesti este un strain.

No sé cuándo volví al mundo llamado normal, formulación vaga pero cuyo sentido todos comprenden, es decir, aquel en el que la visión de un lavabo brillante o de las cabezas de los pasajeros en un tren deja de plantearnos interrogantes o de resultar dolorosa.

Jeg udmålte tiden på en anden måde, med hele min krop. Jeg opdagede hvad man faktisk er i stand til, nemlig hvad som helst. Ophøjede eller dødelige former for begær, mangel på værdighed samt overbevisninger og opførsel som jeg havde opfattet som forrykte hos andre indtil jeg så mig selv tage tilflugt til dem. Uden at han var klar over det, fik han mig til at føle mig mere forbundet med verden.

Comme la plupart des parents, les miens s'imaginaient détecter infailliblement au premier coup d'Å"il le moindre signe de dérive.

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.

I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

BECOMING A RESONANT LEADER Taking Your Desires from Awareness into Action

such as the one encapsulated in the seventh principle: whenever possible, we should manage our thinking by generating cognitive loops.

We are ALL sexually abused by virtue of the fact that we live in a sex-negative society.

They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.