Quotes About Awareness

As inclined as blacks understandably are by painful experience to believe the contrary, racism is not black-specific. It is like the Hydra, the lethal many-headed mythological snake whose heads regenerated as fast as they were severed. Racism is a social disease that exempts no race from either of its two rosters: victims and victimizers.

recognize their own vituperous thought shaming.

Obey the warning signs; don't go into the wilderness alone; and don't believe for a moment that you are better, stronger, faster, or more nimble than the natural forces around you.

Safe in thy breast close lock up thy intents, For he that knows thy purpose best prevents.

Psychiatrists are supposed to help their patients get in touch with things they are trying to avoid.

I am 25 today—it is terrible to think how little time remains!

Rather than working to the exclusion of everything else in order to flood our bank accounts in the hope that we can eventually buy back what we have missed along the way, we need to live life fully now with a sense of its fragility.

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.

When there's an elephant in the room introduce him.

Randy Pausch on time management: Here's what I know: Time must be explicitly managed, like money. You can always change your plan, but only if you have one. Ask yourself: Are you spending your time on the right things? Develop a good filing system. Rethink the telephone. Delegate. Take a time out. Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think.

Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it … when in fact, they didn't

Just because you're in the driver seat, doesn't mean you have to run people over.

The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.

We didn't buy much, but we thought about everything.

Time is all you have. And you may find one day thar you have less than you think

All my life, I've been very aware that time is finite.

Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think

Time is all you have, and you might find one day you have less than what you think

The second kind of head fake is the really important one—the one that teaches people things they don't realize they're learning until well into the process.

There are a few key moments in anyone's life. A person is fortunate if he can tell in hindsight when they happened.

Time is all you have.

The giant stuffed animals all found homes quickly. A few days later, I learned that one of the animals had been taken by a Carnegie Mellon who, like me, has cancer. After the lecture, she walked up and selected the giant elephant. I love the symbolism of that. She got the elephant in the room.

Most importantly, the epidemic was only news when it was not killing homosexuals. In this sense, AIDS remained a fundamentally gay disease, newsworthy only by the virtue of the fact that it sometimes hit people who weren't gay