Quotes About Awareness

I'm not some ditzy moron who has no idea how to deal with a diplomat as if they're some exotic animal.

My drama teacher when I was a kid called me 'Zawe the activist' and I had no idea why. Now I've got older I can see why she always saw that in me.

As a person I don't judge others because I have no idea what circumstances they are in.

Kids in school told me my parents had accents, but I had no idea; they've always sounded that way to me.

Inequality is on the rise in Canada and those at the top have no idea what life is like for most Canadian families.

We live in a world where mental health is real. Emotional health is real, and people feel like no one cares.

I have no problem with how people communicate. But I think it's important... for everyone to be open to learn sign language.

I have no problem in confessing that I drink alcohol but I always take it in a very limited manner.

We are in the final minutes in the day of our lives, and the clock is ticking. Loudly. I wonder if I am the only one who can hear it.

Katie habia aprendido que los instantes eran simplemente eso: una ilusion.

Understanding others meant understanding yourself—

La mayoría de la gente no sabe apreciar el silencio. Por eso siente la necesidad de hablar todo el rato.

Mom says its because she has PMS. Steve almost choked but composed himself quickly. Do you even know what that means? Jonah pushed his glasses up. I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at-men syndrome.

few people in the department. Like him, they recognized the name but couldn't place it.

I've learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they're afraid

É engraçado, mas já reparou que, quanto mais especiais são as coisas, menos atenção as pessoas parecem dedicar a elas? Parece que acham que nunca vão mudar.

Un hombre puede aprender muchas cosas de la naturaleza.

I am listening," he said. "I just hear the things you're not saying.

Nowadays, her physical condition was a source of constant preoccupation—sometimes she longed for the heedless way in which she once took her body for granted. Age revealed so many things about oneself, she mused.

sometimes it's hard to tell the truth because you the truth is hard to see, because it exists in a misty, gray non-space between two strongly charged falsehoods that sound true but aren't.

He claims not to be drinking, but I don't think he knows what this means.

IN Incognito the neuroscientist David Eagleman proposes that we are unknown to ourselves: Most of what we do and think and feel is not under our conscious control.

I don't even feel as if I'm the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I'm the center of anyone else's?

Why is failure the first thing I think of when I find myself in this sort of situation? Why can't I just enjoy myself? But if you have to ask the question, then you know you're lost: self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy. Already I'm wondering whether she's as aware of my erection as I am...