Quotes About Awareness

I see tendencies, I see body language.

We all like to look good. However, this basic human desire can often get in the way of our listening and our speaking. This tendency often evinces itself in two simple words: 'I know.' But if I know everything, what can I learn? Absolutely nothing.

We must be aware of consumerism! That's our tendency. It's the capitalistic curse that we were poisoned with. We should spend only what is necessary. How do you call the big cars, the latest ones? Hummer! Not a single dollar to import Hummers! What is that? What is that? What kind of revolution is this? One of Hummers? No way!

When reviewing one's portfolio, it is important to be aware of common mental mistakes that may lead to bad decisions. The most powerful is commitment bias, which, as manifested in investing, is the tendency to fall in love with one's stocks.

There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.

I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.

Going to any place that you view as more politically oppressed than your own country, there's a weird tendency to assume that the whole existence is determined minute by minute by the political reality, but of course, that's not the case for any of us.

You can think you know somebody. But when they're trying to punch you in the face, you really know somebody. You learn their tendencies.

We try to do a great job of understanding the opposing hitter and his tendencies. Maybe understand the hitter better than he knows himself.

People have a tendency - you let your ego get in the way of the big moments.

'Ikiru' is existential but with a lot of tenderness.

My mind tends to operate a bit like a radar. I don't find it hard to switch off.

It's not something I'm embarrassed about. Depression is an issue that tends to be brushed under the carpet. My hope is that if people with a public profile are prepared to talk about it, then it might prompt other people to talk about it too.

I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.

I think I want to show fans what it is actually like to be an athlete. Tennis is a part of it, but there is also another job that people are not aware of, the media commitments we have, and I want them to understand this.

It is hard to compete with other sports. Badminton is a sport which, when compared with football and tennis, still needs promotion.

I just want to be able to show who I really am, what I can do, bring awareness, create something because I want to take tennis, women's tennis, into an even more exciting path because I believe we have a lot more things to offer.

Every time I go out onto a tennis court, I know what to expect.

I have to live with what I say, or don't say, tens of thousands of times a game.

I'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense.

I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is.

We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and surrender to the music.