Quotes About Awareness

Underneath it, in 'An Inconvenient Truth', we talked a lot about the unspoken decisions that people make in their heads.

There was a sense of all the things that go on on the street, particularly in New York, that you are just completely unaware of, that that conversation could be happening at any time. I loved the instability of the camera. It's just an unstable world.

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

We often hear that people mean well: that so many just don't how to interact with people with disabilities. They're unsure of the 'right' reaction, so they default to condescension that makes them feel better in the face of their discomfort.

Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.

Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.

What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world.

In September of 2015, I did the unthinkable: I used my second-ever runway show to bring awareness to the Black Lives Matter movement. It was the hardest thing I've ever had to do professionally. It was lonely.

When the world's moving towards being the most inclusive it's ever been, it's unthinkable that certain basic aspects of life are still so unfair for the black community.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

Life is a precious gift - a gift we often take for granted until it is threatened.

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

I didn't realise I lived in the ghetto until we moved out.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

It's not until they tell you you're going to die soon that you realise how short life is.

I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.

Someone once told me you don't know about cancer until it touches you. That's when it touched my brother, Mickey. There's nothing like it. When it touches you, it's overwhelming.

Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.