Quotes About Awareness

Unless you are terribly, terribly careful, you run the danger-- without even knowing it is happening to you-- of slipping into the fatal error of reflecting the public taste instead of creating it. Your responsibility is to the public consciousness, not to the public view of itself.

It's not what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you do know that ain't so. —Will Rogers or Mark Twain or someone else

Whenever you "see" an issue or "understand" a concept, be conscious of the lens through which you're viewing the subject. You should assume you're introducing bias. The challenge remains to identify and let go of that bias or the assumptions you bring, and actively work to see and understand the subject anew.

Your problem, dear chap, as I have had occassion to remind you, is that you see but you do not observe; you hear but you do not listen. For a literary man, Watson - and note that I do not comment on the merit of your latest account of my little problems - for a man with the pretenses of being a writer, you are singularly unobservant. Honestly, sometimes I am close to despair.

Don't forget the time change. Tomorrow when you leave for work it will be later than when you woke up.

If you can't face Hiroshima in the theatre, you'll eventually end up in Hiroshima itself

Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.

Ma come hai fatto capirlo, Clod?» si erano stupiti i miei parenti. «Come hai fatto a capire che la spilla da balia era lì?» «L'ho sentita gridare,» avevo risposto.

Try not to seek after the true Only cease to cherish opinions. (172)

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.

A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.

You do not go out into the street in your underwear, although usually you are wearing underwear. The underwear is not visible but it is there all the time. It is the same with concepts. They are there. They underlie practical things we do- even when we are not conscious of them.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Instead of waiting for our attention to be pulled towards something unusual, we can set out frameworks for 'directing' our attention in a conscious manner.

Half the world is screaming for water and freedom when the other half is ordering cocktails and complaining about the service.

Don't write if you can talk, don't talk if you can nod your head, don't nod your head if you don't have to.

Don't loseYour headTo gain a minuteYou need your headYour brains are in it.

This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?

Friends don't let friends drive drunk.

It's ten p.m. Do you know where your children are?

Only you can prevent forest fires.