Quotes About Awareness

I have crashed on a motorcycle that was going at 140mph, so I know what it feels like.

As Will Rogers said, everybody is ignorant, but just about different things.

Antes de continuar me volví para ver si el tiempo seguía allí.

There was a beautiful thoroughness about his wakened anger--it never made inquiries till later.

I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things.

Who hears the fishes when they cry?

The only sin in the world is ignorance.

Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.

Google this by Thoreau and see if you can find it among the many many posterized quotes. No. We want doctrines and schemes. The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky. If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.

Si he de arrastrar mi trampa, me cuidaré de que sea ligera y no me pellizque en una parte vital

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks, who had a genius, so to speak, for Sauntering.

The man I meet is seldom so instructive as the silence which he breaks

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars.

Yo creo que la mente se puede profanar permanentemente con el hábito de escuchar cosas triviales, de modo que todos nuestros pensamientos se teñirán de trivialidad.

we do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.

Just knowing you exist changed the world for me.

Staring Girl I once knew a girl who would just stand there and stare. At anyone or anything, she seemed not to care She'd stare at the ground, She'd stare at the sky. She'd stare at you for hours, and you'd never know why. But after winning the local staring contest, she finally gave her eyes a well-deserved rest.

I have heard women complain about men holding doors for them,, as if it is inherently offensive and implies that they are weak. ... I would hold a door for anyone. ... It has to do with noticing our fellow human beings and saying, I recognize that you're on this planet, and I don't want a door hitting you in the face.

Before I repeat any statistical claim, I first try to take note of how it makes me feel. It's not a foolproof method against tricking myself, but it's a habit that does little harm and is sometimes a great deal of help. Our emotions are powerful. We can't make them vanish, nor should we want to. But we can, and should, try to notice when they are clouding our judgment.

Psychologists call this "motivated reasoning." Motivated reasoning is thinking through a topic with the aim, conscious or unconscious, of reaching a particular kind of conclusion. In a football game, we see the fouls committed by the other team but overlook the sins of our own side. We are more likely to notice what we want to notice.11

did start paying attention to the unglamorous insights

Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan, puts it succinctly: "To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers."27

But we can and should remember to ask who or what might be missing from the data we're being told about.

Presumably this is because we personally experience our own localities, but we rely on the news for information about the wider world.