Quotes About Awareness

When you're young, you think life is forever, but it's finite. I'm 68, so even by the maddest measurements, I'm in the last bit of life.

I no longer see my world as delineated by countries with borders or language, but as seven billion humans living off a single, finite planet.

I have learned that nothing gets readers so fired up as saying something everyone knows is true.

I firmly believe that if we all just took a little time - like 10 or 15 minutes a day - to do nothing but sit calmly with our thoughts, this world would be a much better place.

In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.

African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.

The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit.

I am the first one that knows when I am not doing well or I am doing well.

There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don't have time to be depressed anymore.

We met Ben Mendelsohn, who had acted with Ryan Gosling in 'A Place Beyond the Pines,' and that's the first place where we'd seen him. And we're embarrassed to say that we didn't know that he was a famous Australian actor at the time that we saw it.

You have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not. And I don't mind if you're not scientifically literate, but just admit that to yourself, so that you'll know, and perhaps you can take a first step to try to eradicate that.

If you want to be listened to, the first step is to listen well yourself.

At Grinnell College, for the first time in my life, I was in an all-white setting. It was a shocking experience.

The first time we went to the ACMs, no one really knew who we were.

I was hit for the first time before I was married.

I know firsthand how long it takes to learn how to love yourself.

It's a bit like some martial arts: if you're behind somebody there's not much they can do, if you're in a certain position. So same thing with a fish, if you're in the right position you're okay. As soon as you get in the wrong position you can be in very real danger.

I am just a little fish in the sea. But I do understand that everything that I do could have a little impact.

It is so easy to avoid getting in a fist fight. If you're at a point where you're squaring up against someone in public, then it's on you. There are so many ways to not get in a fist fight.

As a fighter, you know when you connect with a really good shot because you feel the impact on your fist.

I like to encourage people and create awareness about fitness.

I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we?

That's something I'm trying to be better at, fix my body language.