Quotes About Awareness

I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.

It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.

For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.

The big thrillers may make people aware of the violence in the society, and I guess that serves a purpose.

Oppression thrives on distance - on not actually meeting or seeing the oppressed.

Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that children are part of families and that it is within families that children grow and thrive or don't.

No one should ever suffer in silence. Bullies thrive in silence.

I work a lot with dynamics of how loud I'm talking, like speaking into balloons and then feeling the texture on my fingertips, and then I get used to the feeling on my throat.

I started feeling this little lump in my throat, like you would feel if you have swollen glands or something like that, like you'd feel if you have a cold, so I didn't really think it was anything.

I thought I was Superman until I experienced that life-changing anaphylactic shock. I was eating lunch and gobbled down a couple of bowls of gumbo. Then, 15 minutes later, I'm in my dorm room resting up. My eyes started itching and my throat was swelling up. I could barely breathe.

I'm actually a survivor of throat cancer so I'm very, very careful with my voice.

I have learned how to breathe, to use my cords differently. I had been tilting my head in a way when I talked that wasn't good for my throat. I've been working on all of that, and it seems to be helping.

There are terrible things going on in the world, but I am not going to force them down everyone's throats.

I didn't want it to feel like I was shoving my sexuality down people's throats.

Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.

Do I have to see movies and television about the English throne or the Holocaust every year? There are multiple multi-million dollar movies with the same backdrop. But our Holocaust - meaning Latino - aren't ever told.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which one listens.

Homeland is something one becomes aware of only through its loss.

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

We all have mental models: the lens through which we see the world that drive our responses to everything we experience. Being aware of your mental models is key to being objective.

Racism exists, but it is far less rampant than ignorance, and ignorance can be cured through experience.

It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create.