Quotes About Awareness

When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience's face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.

Playing onstage, I'm always aware of where the bathrooms are. When Crohn's hits, I have to run, or it won't be pretty.

When I'm onstage, I'm on, but a different part of me is on: the part of me that absorbs life, sees everything occurring, and touches on everything around me.

Coming onto the Jordan Brand absolutely gives more attention to women's basketball and basketball in general.

I'm an artist with a message, and my message is more for society, casting the mirror onto them and saying, 'Hey, this is what we look like, what are we going to do about it, how are we going to use what we've been through to aid where we're going.'

If you're anything other than a white, cisgender, able-bodied dude, people are going to project narratives, imagery, and context onto you that you might not necessarily see for yourself.

Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active role in ensuring that what the United States does abroad is not merely in keeping with a foreign policy elite's sense of realpolitik but also with the American public's own sense of American values.

Artists have different responsibilities in different eras. But at this point, I really feel like it's all hands on deck. An artist that's fiddle-faddling in opaque, gossamer gestures - I mean it's fine to do that, totally fine, but there's no time left. We don't have the luxury of time anymore.

When genocide is committed, it must be seen. People must look at it with open eyes, not minimize its impact.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it's open season on anybody who stutters.

He's dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end.

I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.

Before being an athlete, I'm a person, a human being, like the ones Open Arms are saving every day.

I try to keep an open mind - not knowing it all.

I think the open mind is the one that's reachable.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

I always been a know-it-all and I think I've learned to have more of an open mind.

If you don't open your eyes to other people's lives, you can't even begin to understand how the world works at all.

Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded.

In all of my books, I've emphasized that the fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that, for even the most open-minded of the civilized, listening to the natural world is a metaphor.

I'm open-minded and never think I know everything. I actually feel like I know nothing, and that allows me to learn on a different level.

I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.

The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.

I think so many doors have been opened for the gay community as far as the dangers and horrors of HIV. There is so much more out-ness now.