Quotes About Awareness

I think everyone holds back. I am always censoring myself and I'm sorry about it. But I always have to consider whether my remarks might cause someone pain.

'Beloved.' That's an amazing film and I'm sorry more people didn't see it when it came out.

I play low to the ice and that's a way I've protected myself in the past - I just felt that it was better to be safe than sorry.

We want to make politics sort of entertaining. If it is entertaining, people are going to be interested in it, and if they are interested in it, they might think more about it and maybe involve themselves in some way down the line.

We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'

The so-called modern conveniences may, in fact, be extremely inconvenient - everything seems to exist as a distraction from any sort of deeper thought or contemplation.

For sure, the American people have access to more information now than any other people who have ever lived on earth. And I think we do a pretty good job of sorting out what's important.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

My grandfather pioneered exploration of what he called 'our water planet,' then my father sought to understand the human connection, and now, as part of the third generation, I'm dedicated to not only raising awareness but also to empowering people to take action.

As time has gone by, I have looked more and more like Paul Revere than the alarmist my critics have sought to portray.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

In the end, I don't think you can find soul. Soul finds you.

We have to support everyone so their stories don't get 'invisibilized.' We don't necessarily have to repopulate the next Marvel movie with people of color, but it's just about saying 'We have hearts, we have souls, we have minds, we have faults, we have flaws, and we're super-freaking interesting.'

I believe silence is the greatest sound of all.

I live out in the country in Scotland and know that if I close my eyes, I can recognise every sound.

I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound.

It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.

The world is full of sounds. We just don't usually hear them as music.

For the next week, try the best you can to pay attention to sounds. You will start hearing all these sounds coming in. Once you let them in, you've already done the first and most critical thing, you've honored that information by including it. And by doing that, you've actually changed the world.

Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.

I don't know what silence sounds like anymore.

When you're at a certain point in your time - age, that is, when you're older - you start to realize that, actually, what you leave behind you does count, and so you start to become fundamentally aware of your own destiny, which sounds very grand. It's not grand at all, actually.

I sometimes think I was always left-wing. I know that sounds completely crazy, but I do know that I asked questions when I was about four, and I remember noticing that I wasn't getting an answer, and I remember it annoying me.