Quotes About Awareness

We still have a soft approach on the perpetrators of crimes like worst forms of child labour.

We forget that everything has a meaning, everything has an impact on you. It's what we call soft power today. Nothing is innocent.

People are soft. The whole world is. That's why you have to be careful what you say, careful what you post, careful what you wear.

I did a soft drink ad some time back. Later, a mother came to me and said that her child started consuming more of that drink after seeing my ad. It made me measure my actions.

Anyone who feels I am going soft on the drugs menace has not checked out the facts nor seen the situation on the ground.

Soft Sounds' was about disassociating to preserve my mental health.

What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.

I finally got help after a tennis match with my wife. I couldn't hear her across the net. She finally smashed her racket against a rock. That got my attention. I didn't know I was going deaf, I thought people were talking too softly.

I doubt very much that the chief executives of any of the Fortune 500 corporations can name five edible plants, five native grasses, or five migratory birds within walking distance of their homes, or name the soil series upon which their house sits. And I would contend that if you don't know where you are, you are in fact nowhere at all.

The truth is I try to show up each day available to do the work that God or whatever it is that's making, you know, the solar system work wants me to do. And I expect when he wants me to stop, I'll be the first to find out.

If I had written a book saying, 'Ladies, your life is terrible,' I would have sold three copies. It's always better to laugh people into recognition.

The truth is, a large majority of the market, I'd guess 80 percent, doesn't know anything more than what they are sold.

I never thought, in my life, I'd be sold. It's painful to say, as a human, 'I was sold.'

I did this whole series on the buffalo soldiers-on black soldiers-I did another series on black cowboys, and I presented myself to the gallery system, and all these people with these massive collections didn't know there were black cowboys or black soldiers. I ended up hitting a niche I didn't know was there.

In my senior year of high school, I read an article in 'Newsweek' about child soldiers in Sierra Leone. I felt a sense of shock - this was happening in the region where I'm from, and people don't know about it. I wanted to understand.

'Beasts of No Nation' began when I read an article about child soldiers in Sierra Leone during my final year of high school.

My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.

If you connect with a greater part of yourself, I call it higher self, but that's an experience, and when you do this, knowledge comes in, including intuition, and it's always about, 'What's my heart's sole desire?'

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

A dynamic team cannot rely solely on orders; they must be able to read each others' every move so they can act as parts of a coordinated whole.

Good actors are always looking for props. They're looking for behavior. It makes it a lot easier. You're not solely dependent of what's coming out of your mouth. You're also less self-conscious, less aware of the camera.

Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.

As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it.

Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.