Quotes About Awareness

Each day should be passed as though it were our last.

One should count each day a separate life.

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

Every day is a messenger of God.

Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.

I don't want to be patronizing . . . that means "talking down."

I'm moving down here . . . because some of you in the back might not be able to hear my talk . . . and that wouldn't be fair to those who can hear it.

You decide you'll wait for your pitch. Then as the ball starts toward the plate, you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. And then you realize that the ball that went past you for a strike was your pitch.

To see a shadow and think it is a tree-that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

Great opportunities come to all, but many do not know they have met them. The only preparation to take advantage of them is simple fidelity to watch what each day brings.

If a man looks sharply and attentively, he shall see fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Know thine opportunity.

How many opportunities present themselves to a man without his noticing them?

The opportunity that God sends does not wake up him who is asleep.

Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.

Not all speed is movement.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

I murmured because I had no shoes, until I met man who had no feet.

The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.