Quotes About Awareness

In standup, you don't have anything near you except a microphone. There's something a lot more self-conscious feeling when there's cameras coming in for close-ups. It makes you very aware.

Being at Stanford really opens your eyes to the world that's out there.

I think it's really important that the anti-bullying messages get into schools and become a staple in every school.

Being a star comes with not just fame and fortune, but with awareness and responsibility.

You can't assume anything in politics. That's why every Saturday I walk around my district. I talk to the longshoremen in Charlestown. I listen to the people in East Boston and their concern on the airport noise. I walk down to the Star Market in Porter Square, and people tell me about meat prices.

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

Sometimes when you're in different countries, everything has become so homogenised and there's a Starbucks and McDonald's everywhere, and you could feel like you're in Florida. But in Japan, you know you're there.

Do you ever sit in Starbucks and watch people go by? Everyone has energy around them, and you can tell what kind of person they are just by the way they walk and talk.

Did I ever think about TV stardom? I don't watch a lot of TV. I wasn't even aware of the phenomenon of what was going on in food television, what you started with the Food Network.

My children and their generation are not aware of the stardom I had enjoyed during my younger days.

Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

When you're in a conversation, genuinely be in it. Stare people in their eyes. Know what you're talking about. Enjoy that moment.

To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.

I don't mind if adults stare. They should really know about my physical situation.

Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.

I try to be very aware of opportunities as they arise. But I don't sit around staring at my navel and thinking about my brand development.

People go shopping, we spend on so many things, and we just don't know. We don't know the prices of things. But gasoline, even when you're not buying, it's staring you in the face. Psychologists call this 'salience.'

Loopt isn't a service that keeps you locked in, staring at your screen.

I'd like to pretend to be all Olympian and above it, as if this is a phenomenon I'm observing from a great height, nothing to do with my own behavior at all - but the fact is I'm absolutely one of those people in the cafe staring at my phone.

When you're staring at your phone to navigate and being led places, you do become less aware of your environment, and the journey becomes kind of automated. There is an aliveness that comes with having to puzzle out directions for yourself. And you have to ask other people for help, which creates opportunity for social connection.

Visaaranai' reflects a stark reality from which you cannot shut yourself out: that is its success.