Quotes About Awareness

A sponge sees everything? A sponge sees nothing.

I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it.

I think people have to sharpen their eyes and look. I always feel like a big sponge: I feel like I learn lots of things by osmosis, and I feel that I'm always absorbing. I mean, when people say, 'What is your inspiration?' I could throw up. I mean, I'm inspired by the fact I get up in the morning. And I'm still here.

Both depression and anxiety disorders, for example, are repeatedly described in the media as 'chemical imbalances in the brain,' as if spontaneous neural events with no relation to anything outside a person's brain cause depression and anxiety.

I think it's important to be flexible and free, and you can't be free and spontaneous if you don't know what you're doing.

If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Living in an ethical way can attune us to the pain and needs of others, but when our hearts are open and awake, we care instinctively.

I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky.

When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.

I'm fortunate for where I come from because even though I didn't grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth, it allowed me to appreciate any little thing that I have.

When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.

There is a difference between a consumer - who passively receives the information that they are spoon fed - and a citizen - who engages with society, asks questions, does research, and works towards making a difference in their neighborhood, city, and country.

I definitely find myself, as I get older, a lot more aware and concerned with the health of the sport.

Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.

It's good for your career as a sportsman if you watch other professional sports - how they're behaving and how they react in difficult situations.

I think as a professional sportsman you're aware that your time is limited.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

I can spot a homosexual at forty paces.

The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of the race, at least in mixed company, are features of African American life that predate affirmative action and arise outside of its presence.

Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

My doctor found a spot on my lung. He told me it looked like adenocarcinoma, a cancer he attributes to smoking. He didn't need to biopsy it.

I am always concerned with finding the right spot and the right shot, so sometimes I forget to appreciate the skill of my fellow adventurers, but I am aware of how my life has been changed by my ability with a camera.

It's not necessarily about the physical aspects when people say receivers have a lot of drops or can't catch the ball. It's that they are not focusing on the right things. That their mind-set is not in the right spot.

If I'm not moved from one spot to another, internally, while I'm witnessing it, reading it, consuming it, whatever, I don't know why we're being asked to the party.