Quotes About Awareness

It is possible to be well-educated and still not understand life. 

You should encourage your children to see the needs of those around them.

OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?

The whole life lies in the verb seeing.

Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.

I've got no attention span.

The problem is you have people who are keenly aware of what their time span is. Governments work towards the next election; BBC governors work for their time there. You have extraordinary regimes that run at the BBC and different people have different outlooks.

My attention span is very short.

It would seem the people who want to preserve the Penans' way of life are condemning them to a life full of diseases and a shorter life span.

I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.

I have a very short attention span.

I have a short attention span.

I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.

I wasn't aware that 'House on Mango Street' was so influenced by Spanish until after I finished.

I try to avoid Politico to spare myself psoriasis of the brain but so many journalists cite it that I'm forced to be aware of it no matter how big a moat I build.

We live very busy lives. But everyone has a spare minute.

The biggest thing for me with charity is awareness. Obviously as an athlete, I have an opportunity to make people more aware. The average person doesn't have that opportunity, so the best way is to spare some money, clothing, food - something. Most of us have a little excess of something that we can give.

'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.

We keep discussing nuclear power and other issues, but we should spare a thought to the basic needs of our women.

I work a lot with blind people in my spare time outside of Unilever, and I count my blessings every day.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. 'Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won't? How do I know there's anything there except what I'm conscious of?'

If I can inspire one spark of awareness or get a spark of introspection or reflection about someone else's life, that's a beautiful thing, in my opinion.

I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.

I had always been aware of George's importance to me, of the bond of friendship and of the sparkle and light, effervescence and electricity that suffused the music we made.