Quotes About Awareness

When 'The Normal Heart' first appeared, the sense of urgency was so important.

A weird side effect of being in close proximity to death is an urgency.

Spotting sepsis is one of the most difficult things to do early and the urgency is critical to whether people survive.

Ever since I could remember, women's issues have been pretty urgent.

For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and when they do need to seek urgent care.

Flooding is the most urgent issue that Houstonians are facing.

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

The attacks of September 11 persuaded many Americans that what might seem to be obscure or distant potential threats can very quickly materialize and it therefore makes sense to attend to them even before they become urgent.

Hollywood is the perfect conduit for the urgent message about climate change. We raise awareness all the time. We routinely take a film that nobody knows about and get 80 percent of the public to know about it in just 30 days. That's called marketing. We need to harvest Hollywood for climate change awareness.

I am interested in seeing if you can create on film pieces that feel contemporary and urgent.

Watching AIDS play its evil game of give and take has made me understand why lobbying for increased research funding should be an urgent priority - not only for the gay community but for us all.

I think the crux of this urgent and real conversation about representation and diversity in art-making and storytelling both behind and in front of the camera ultimately has to do with simply seeing more human perspectives.

We need to take urgent action on climate change.

Emotions aren't just mindless urges; they contain thoughts about matters of importance.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.

Ghosts are all around us. Look for them, and you will find them.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.

It is critical for us to cultivate consciousness and compassion towards our environment, create awareness, galvanize people, and build sustainable innovations for sustainable development.

At times, we take freedom for granted. We really don't know how to cherish the freedom we have until it's taken from us.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.