Quotes About Awareness

Every day that you're on set is a new day to learn something. Every time you're there, there's something new that you'll notice or something that you'll miss, and you think of something new that you can do.

I don't think every offensive comment is racism. But when I see real prejudice I have to call it out.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable.

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

To become mindfully aware of our surroundings is to bring our thinking back to our present moment reality and to the possibility of some semblance of serenity in the face of circumstances outside our ability to control.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

You get caught up thinking about the future, you lose sight of the present.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

Reminding myself that listening is just as important a creative act as thinking is key for me.

The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.

Speed bumps, I was thinking, you know, you're driving along, everything's OK, and then there's a speed bump to go, 'Slow down.' Go over it real slowly, and you hit the pedal, and you keep going, and I just thought it was kind of a nice metaphor for life.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.