Quotes About Awareness

Industries don't die by surprise. It's not as if you didn't know it was coming. It's not as if you didn't know whom to call (or hire).

The challenge lies in knowing your market and yourself well enough to see the truth.

A successful manager told me that stopped wearing a watch. She found that the work was so immersive, anchoring it to whatever hour it happened to be was pointless. The watch reminded her of the rigors of appointments and the status quo, while her goal was to be there, right here, right now, in the moment, and to do the work in front of her. The watch had no role in doing that right, so, for now, it's gone.

Whistling as you walk through the woods is a form of art, but you're not doing it hoping a squirrel will applaud.

My friend didn't understand what it means to be in the world, to be present and aware.

For me, marketing works for society when the marketer and consumer are both aware of whats happening and are both satisfied with the ultimate outcome.

1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion. 2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done. 3. There is no editing stage. 4. Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it. 5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.

omniscience

A life without attachment and stress can give you the freedom to see things as they are and call them as you see them.

Curious people count. Not because there are a lot of them, but because they're the ones who talk to people who are in a stupor. They're the ones who lead the masses in the middle who are stuck. The masses in the middle have brainwashed themselves into thinking it's safe to do nothing, which the curious can't abide.

I splash my head with ice-cold water and turn to face the mirror. When my image appears I instinctively look away. Is there a truth on the other side that we do not want to see?

Maybe the truth doesn't exist if you look the other way.

The first step toward power is to accept reality

I began to see, in the place of emptiness, presence. I began to see not only the visible landscape but the invisible one, a landscape in which history, unrecorded and unremembered as it is, had transmuted itself into an always present spiritual dimension.

On their way home, John said, "Marta, that's a long way to go so that Jacob can have a friend." "Shh," Marta said. "Ears." "What?" "We all have ears. Everyone in this car can hear, John." "Well, of course we all have ears. Oh.

Don't go getting full of yourself becuase once you do, somebody's going to come and let the wind out of your sails

Gotta realize that all you are is all you got.

There are secret sins and found-out sins, and it is foolish to worry about the first until it becomes the second.

Fretting about time's passing will not slow it down one whit.

A man just realizing the fatal extent of his own folly was not likely to be all that rational.

Every time you get the world by the tail, she thought, you gotta remember there's teeth on the other end.

We can only speak the truth that we know at the time it is known.

Who is old enough to ask, is old enough to know.

He fell in love with her because I didn't suit him anymore - nor him, me, though I could not see it, but he saw it for me.