Quotes About Awareness

And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.

Being confronted with the realization that work you intended to benefit people is being used against them has a radicalizing effect.

I think the American electorate should work a little harder at getting informed. That includes hearing, truly listening, to what the other side is saying. Whether you're left or right.

I'm aware of how lucky I am. Being able to make pretty good money, and get to do a lot of fun work, and at the same time I'm not besieged by photographers.

A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state of affairs.

To anger female voters in America is to tread on the tiger's tail. Women turn out in huge numbers, and they are well aware of how their bodies work and what they need.

To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.

Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well.

I look for the ability to work. Directing is hard work. They don't teach you that in film school. Critics are not aware of it, but it is hard, physical work.

I'm not proposing that you let the crowd dictate, or that you work hard to fit in. Far from it. I'm proposing that you know the impact your choices are having and act accordingly.

I just can't sit still and meditate; that doesn't kind of work for me. I don't even know exactly what it means.

the more visible my work became, the less visible I grew to myself.

A lot of my work comes through accidents or circumstances that just happen to present themselves. I have to realize that something is presenting itself. Otherwise it slips right by.

When we work all over the planet, it's mostly poor and black and brown and young people, because that's mostly what the world [environmentalism] is.

Pat Robertson had decided that global warming was real and we need to do something about it struck me as powerful evidence that the Holy Spirit is hard at work in this question.

I like to get to work early. Before my brain knows what I'm up to.

Democracy doesn't work unless the public is informed.

I'm the one I need to work with.

As an actor I suppose you're constantly observing. I don't sit in restaurants making notes, I don't live my life in order to then feed it into my work.

I don't need to worry about that, that's always there on a slow simmer. The muscle I have to work on is being more present.

Allow your head to be quiet. Allow it to be still. Just for an hour and half. Just deal with your body & your breath.