Quotes About Awareness

I hope it never gets to that point that I'm gonna have people around me that are using me. I'm very good with noticing that.

Sometimes when you're going through life you're not really noticing it.

I'm always astonished to see how badly people can behave when they think no one is noticing.

Every movement ignores disabled people. So, during MeToo no one was talking about the experience of disabled women; during BLM the notion of black disabled people was just ignored and so in terms of comparison we need to have this movement for disabled people.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

I'm a big believer in the notion that to know where you are going, you have to know where everything has been.

I believe that one of the saddest things in the world today is that some people don't have enough food to nourish themselves. It's the 21st century and that's really not acceptable, so if I could do something that would change that I would be really happy.

Mental health is not a novelty; it's part of who we are and we need to treat it as if it were a broken arm or any other kind of medical consideration.

I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.

When I was growing up, the Spanish-speaking world was Balkanized. We were isolated. We didn't know what was happening in cultural terms in Ecuador, Colombia and Chile. Nowadays, this has changed a lot - fortunately for writers and readers. There is much more integration.

You've got to take care of yourself, man. There's a lot of stuff going around here nowadays with cancer and hormones and things like that they're putting in a lot of foods. You've got to be real careful and stay as healthy as possible.

At the end of the day, life and the way things are nowadays, you have to mentally prepare your kids. Whether I'm with a woman or not, walking down the street with my son, he's going to see a man and a man holding hands, so eventually I have to give him that conversation.

Took me a long time to know I was a nobody from nowhere.

I was growing up and maturing at a time where we were invisible, man. We were nowhere except negative. Any time you saw a Latin person in Hollywood or on TV, they were some sort of negative character.

Dealing with chronic anxiety has taught me to better understand the nuances of mental illness and the very individual nature of it.

All of the cultural nuances and the traumas and the complexities that come with being a third-culture kid, these are all nuances that the quote-unquote system of Hollywood is just starting to become privy to.

The challenge lies in the fact that the planet has limited time. Be it climate change or nuclear fallout, there is very little time. You have to pick your cause.

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.

We can understand both our nature and our nurture, but understanding is only the first step.

I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?

I certainly believe that being in contact with one's spirit and nurturing one's spirit is as important as nurturing one's body and mind.

I look at how my kids view exercise. They have a complete understanding that nutrition and exercise go hand in hand. I didn't think like that when I was a kid. But they have a real consciousness about it that I'd like to think comes from the years of attention we've put into this.