Quotes About Awareness

When you throw trash on the ground, you apparently don't see yourself as truly belonging to the world that you're walking around in.

And yet when I went to sleep, it was like I became part of some larger human experience that was utterly heartbreaking. It was far too much to acknowledge when I was awake.

scripture: a true and honest accounting of everything that underlies the frantic performance of life.

Imparai tutte, o quasi tutte, le cose più importanti che erano state pensate e scritte prima della mia nascita; mi abituai a guardare il mondo con cento occhi, anziché con i miei due soli, e a sentire nella mia testa cento pensieri diversi, anziché il mio solo pensiero. Diventai consapevole di me stesso e degli altri. Gli uomini, senza la lettura, non conoscono che una piccolissima parte delle cose che potrebbero conoscere.

Yet surely, in the world of humans, no one goes out of their way to run down a person who hasn't really made it in the world, or whose reputation is already on the wane. And no one would pause to savour the sight or the sound of some boring bird such as a kite or a crow. So, really, it's precisely because the uguisu is supposed to be such a marvellous bird that one's perversely more aware of its failings.

Life works better when we know how to glance at things but gaze at God.

Not only must you be an artist, must you be generous, and must you be able to see where you can help but you must also be aware. Aware of where your skills are welcomed.

No one knows more about the way you think than you do.

The time to look for a new job is when you don't need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable.

Frequency led to awareness, awareness to familiarity, and familiarity to trust. And trust, almost without exception, leads to profit.

A lifeguard doesn't have to spend much time pitching to the drowning person. When you show up with a life buoy, if the drowning person understands what's at stake, you don't have to run ads to get them to hold on to it.

THE RIGHT INFORMATION BRINGS KNOWLEDGE. AND KNOWLEDGE IS POWER. SHARING IT IS EMPOWERMENT.

Sonder is defined as that moment when you realize that everyone around you has an internal life as rich and as conflicted as yours.

Response is always better than reaction.

Let's define dumb as being different from stupid. Dumb means you don't know what you're supposed to know. Stupid means you know it but make bad choices. […] Dumb used to be a by-product of lack of access, bad teachers, or poor parenting. Today, dumb is a choice, one that's made by individuals who choose not to learn. If you don't know what you need to know, that's fixable. But first you have to want to fix it.

The alternative to tourism The linchpin, the engaged one, the graceful actor in an unfolding play—these people don't seek to only inspect. They're not traveling in order to tick a checkbox. Instead, they open themselves to the world they bought a ticket to, knowing full well that they will be changed.

A life without attachment and stress can give you the freedom to see things as they are and call them as you see them. If you had this skill, what an asset you would be to any organization.

in virtually every industry the most trusted brand is also the most profitable. Frequency led to awareness, awareness to familiarity, and familiarity to trust. And trust, almost without exception, leads to profit.

If you're able to look at what's happening in your world and say, "There's the pattern," or "Wow, that's interesting, I wonder why," then you're far more likely to respond productively than if your reaction is "How dare he!

Before a marketer can build trust, it must breed familiarity. But there's no familiarity without awareness. And awareness—the science of letting people know you exist and getting them to understand your message—can't happen effectively in today's environment without advertising.

Everything happens for a reason, doesn't it? Even if you don't consciously agree with that statement, your brain sure does.

Here's another way to describe the two axes: One asks, Can you see it? The other wonders, Do you care?

All effective education creates tension, because just before you learn something, you're aware you don't know it (yet).

Judec?m totul, iar oamenii ne judec? la rândul lor. Adeseori, aceste judec??i sunt subiective, incorecte È™i ineficiente, dar negarea lor nu le face s? dispar?.