Quotes About Awareness

Knowing is not thinking. Knowing begins when thinking ceases, having finished its work. Every new knowing is a joy, for it is a new experience of unity.

Every day work on your humility through your meditation, giving more of yourself, giving those things you don't want to give.

I believe that with enough practice and good faith, you can learn to recognize when the work is achieved.

I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.

Most people ultimately realize that they can acquire things, change their partner or other things, consume more and still it doesn't work. I'm not criticizing any of this.

How can you work in film and still see the overt racism that exists in film and not just be furious all the time?

Experiences with friends or family members coming out have helped millions of Americans to see past stereotypes and better understand what being gay is - and is not.

As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.

Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.

I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.

No one is born believing in harmful stereotypes. They are learned over time. The good news is they can be unlearned.

If, as a Spaniard, I am so often offended by the stereotypes that abound regarding my country, how can I accept and repeat the ones that fall even more heavily upon Israel?

I'm big on being anti-stereotypical and fighting negative stereotypes.

There were so few examples of Asian or Asian-American lead characters on American TV or even in the movies. And the ones that have existed for so long were either stereotypical or offensive in some way, or just not reflective of the lives of people in the community.

I pretty much figured out in grade school that we weren't the stereotypical American family.

Color categories are on steroids in Latin America. I find that fascinating. It's very difficult for Americans, particularly African-Americans to understand or sympathize with.

Steve was perfectly aware of the Dynabook. That was one of the reasons he wanted me to come to Apple.

I have always wanted to work with Steven R. Monroe, and when I read his script, I was blown away! I think 'Complacent' hits a nerve that people try so desperately to avoid, which is what I love about Steven's work.

I like how you can go back and watch David Lean and John Ford and see the influence that had on Steven Spielberg, especially David Lean, in the camerawork, and yet, you don't watch any Spielberg movie and think of David Lean. Once you're looking for it, you see it all, but it's not in your face.

I get people today who say, 'I first heard about you through the Stevie Wonder commercial.' The power of advertising in that way is incredible.

The more blessings or resources you have at your disposal, the more I become aware of... how should I steward this? It's supposed to be an investment that I can turn around and create art that gives something to other people. Ugh, that sounds like the most Miss America answer of all time.

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.

I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.