Quotes About Awareness

Even an idle phone conversation when driving takes a 40 percent bite out of your focus and, surprisingly, can have the same effect as being drunk.

Many of Admiral Stark's subordinates were so fixated on the idea that the navy battleships were protecting Pearl Harbor that they had trouble seeing the ships themselves as a Japanese target. The connection strategy is more than just connecting the dots. It involves changing the way we think.

People who can pick up on trends, spot patterns, wonder about irregularities, and notice coincidences are an important resource.

The greatest obstacle to knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.

Intuition is the use of patterns they've already learned, whereas insight is the discovery of new patterns.

To quote Mark Twain, "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

Animals often understand more of these matters than most people imagine.

I would like for people to realize that yoga is not about touching your toes.

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

The notion that animals are not self-aware is based on nothing more than a stipulation that the only way to be self-aware is to have the self-awareness of a normal adult human. That is certainly one way to be self-aware. It's not the only way.

Baz? hayvanlar? sevip onlara ailemizin birer üyesi gibi muamele ederken, onlara hissetme yetilerinden, duygusal kapasitelerinden, kendilerinin fark?nda olan birer ki?i olduklar?ndan asla ?üphe duymazken, onlardan hiç de farkl? olmayan ba?ka hayvanlar?n ölü bedenlerine çatal b?çaklar?m?z? saplamam?za neden olan ahlaki ?izofrenimize son vermemiz gerekir!

We would finally have to confront our moral schizophrenia about animals, which leads us to love some animals, treat them as members of our family, and never once doubt their sentience, emotional capacity, self-awareness, or personhood, but at the same time we stick dinner forks into other animals who are indistinguishable in any relevant sense from our animal companions.

Our motivation and our thoughts about our actions become as important as the actions themselves.

ANY SITUATION THAT CALLS ME TO CONFRONT MY SELFISHNESS HAS ENORMOUS SPIRITUAL VALUE.

It marks prayer as the heart of our devotion, the constant awareness of God's presence, our consistent submission to his will, and our frequent expressions of adoration and praise.

When I first began spending daily time in prayer, I often grew frustrated at how I could forget about God's presence by lunchtime, even after praying for an hour in the morning. Shorter but more frequent times of prayer may actually help us to live with an increasing awareness of God's presence in our lives. How difficult would it be for us to set aside five minutes in the morning, five minutes at noon, and five minutes before or after dinnertime to meet God in prayer?

Paul urges us to pray continually (1 Thessalonians 5:17). This puts prayer on a far higher plane than mere intercession. It marks prayer as the heart of our devotion, the constant awareness of God's presence, our consistent submission to his will, and our frequent expressions of adoration and praise.

God will speak to us through creation if we'll only listen. If you feel like your time in front of books or listening to sermons has become stagnant, grab a coat, pick up a walking stick, and step outside into a school that never closes.

Sin never seems quite as shocking when it is known only to us; when we see how it looks or sounds to another, it is magnified ten times over.

Wait a minute! This is grass! We've been eating grass!

the time when we tend to notice that we need toilet paper tends not to be the moment when we are in a position to buy it. Relying

But nobody is born being able to hear [intervals], and many people never master them. Some people never even notice that "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and "The Alphabet Song" follow the same melody (and hence consist of the same sequence of intervals).

THE WORLD IS FULL OF IDIOTS.......DON'T BE ONE OF THEM to my children

I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books the other two are too small but they like the movies.