Quotes About Awareness

Some things you'll never know, and some things you'll wish you never knew.

Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important as they were.

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

Life is about now - some things are just too important to miss.

Some things are worth the fat and calories, although I have to watch it like a hawk.

Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.

I've read some things that people said about me, and some of it's not even close to accurate. Honestly, I don't even have ESPN in my house. There's really no point.

I wasn't fully aware of the things that Madlib did musically, but my manager put me up on game. I'm not gonna act like I was a Madlib head when I wasn't. I didn't understand a lot of it at first. But it opened my mind to some things, and it's me bringing that gangster element to things that he does. It's like a perfect marriage.

It's presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody's life. Your own, first.

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.

Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn't know when. After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn't know when. But now I knew it acutely.

As an actor, you know every job you have is going to end someday. That's not so much different than the rest of the world; we just don't have illusions about it.

I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.

I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'

It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness.

I think we plan everything, somehow, on another level.

My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.

When you write poetry you are always addressing the world somehow.

Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones.

You never know what's going on in someone's life. You never know what's really going on behind what they present.

If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.