Quotes About Awareness

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.

Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.

When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence.

Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.

When your inner eyes open, you can find immense beauty hidden within the inconsequential details of daily life. When your inner ears open, you can hear the subtle, lovely music of the universe everywhere you go.

The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.

The man who suspects his own tediousness has yet to be born.

O wad some power the giftie gie us to see some people before they see us.

Man is the only animal that can be bored.

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.

Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored; there must be something else I want to be doing ... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

When you buy, use your eyes and your mind, not your ears.

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.

If your lips would keep from slips five things observe with care: To whom you speak, of whom you speak, And how, and when, and where.

When you go to buy use your eyes, not your ears.