Quotes About Awareness

The great mass of people do not extract ten per cent, of the happiness possible in their everyday life, largely because they were never trained to think of the normal sources of enjoyment. Their minds are blank, except for the little grooves which their daily routine has stamped in their brain tissue.

Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won

Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.

Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings.

Whatever your gravity is when you get to the door, remember?the enemy's gate is down . If you step through your own door like you're out for a stroll, you're a big target and you deserve to get hit. With more than a flasher.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.

Cover your butt. Bernard is watching.

I know everything I need to know already, Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet. So tell me, said Rigg. I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease...

He was only a child, doing what adults led him to do; but somewhere in his heart he knew that even a child is a real person, that a child's acts are real acts, that even a child's play is not without moral context.

You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake.

It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender

Ender began to eat, slowly and carefully, pretending not to notice he was the center of attention.

He could just look at people and listen to them and suddenly he'd know things about them.

When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom, you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.

I know you know, and you know that I know that you know. It spirals on from there, so let's just assume the dot dot dot.

Is the future, is the past, all that matters to you? Don't you have just a little bit of room for the present?

Everyone was always in such a rush to shoot forward that they never took the time to look back. Which was a mistake. If you wanted to avoid snags, kinks, knots, and cuts, you had to keep your mind on your line, as the saying went.

See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet.

No one likes to find out that the story he always believed about his own identity is false.

Who was more cursed, the one who died, unknowing until the very moment of his death, or the one who watched his destruction as it approached, step by step, for days and weeks and years?

Maybe knowing about craziness means you don't have to fall for it.

They aren't having a mental conversation between people with different thought processes. All their thoughts are present, together, at once.

Focus too closely on the goal you haven't accomplished, and you'll fail to notice the victories you achieve along the way.

There's never enough information...That's the great tragedy of human knowledge. No matter how much we think we know, we can never predict the future.