Quotes About Awareness

I think what you're groping for is that people need more than to be scolded, more than to be made to feel stupid and guilty. They need more than a vision of doom. They need a vision of the world and of themselves that inspires them.

Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you. If a thing falls outside the range of people's curiosity, then they simply cannot make inquiries about it. It constitutes a blind spot - a spot of blindness that you can't even know is there unit someone draws your attention to it.

Like our imaginary airman, they were totally unaware that there is a law that must be complied with in order to achieve civilizational flight.

Where do people need to go so badly they can't realise what is already here, outside the car window

To get in cars and drive down roads all over the country, all over the world, to drive just as slowly as the law will allow—although the law, especially as it pertains to speed limits, is not something Edward Bloom respects: twenty in town is too fast for him; the highways are madness. How can the world be seen at such speeds? Where do people need to go so badly they can't realize what is already here, outside the car window?

Because you and Al have all the truth with you over there. Don't know what I'm talking about, I guess. My apologies to you who knows better.

There is no greater grief than that of a man with a broken heart who only just learned he had a heart at all.

For Ming Kai's nose—which, like so many Chinese organs, was advanced beyond the reckoning of his Caucasian brother—

La ignorancia sólo es motivo de vergüenza si se decide no corregirla

His eyes did not track when they were talking, and when he blinked, which wasn't often, she could count to three before his eyelids touched.

What is it like.... what is it like to be dead?' Evan looked at him with his dull, unblinking blue eyes, ' I don't know, what is it like...... to be alive?

You've presented a reality that not everyone has chosen to accept.

Education is the vaccine for violence.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Responsibility educates.

Typically, people don't overcome their fears because the fears are nebulous and undefined.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

I'm the kind of guy who, I need a watch that tells me what day it is. I need to know it's Friday on my watch. I need to look at it and go, 'Friday today.' Tomorrow I will not know it's Saturday until I look at my watch. My watchband broke, I was crippled. I have no concept of time, I have no concept of dates.

How do you keep seeing through all of my disguises?

Love thy neighbor, just watch out for the husband

The first thing men notice about a woman is her eyes. Then, when her eyes aren't looking, they notice her breasts.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

True happiness is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things.

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.