Quotes About Awareness

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

'Stupidity' defines the mental state wherein we acknowledge that we've never been smarter as individuals and yet somehow we've never felt stupider. We now collectively inhabit a state of stupidity.

Social media and smart phones have become an inevitable part of our lives. We shouldn't be under their control, which is wrong. It is mere stupidity, and we must be aware of everything around us.

It is, after all, impossible in the modern world to shield everyone from nonsense and stupidity.

I cannot abide stupidity, in myself or in others.

People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.

I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.

I run into a lot of ignorance and stupidity. It gets really frustrating, but you have to take yourself out of it and realize what's happening in the bigger picture.

I'm even handed. I just point out the stupidity we all do.

There are many styles of standup, but the comedians I like are people like Dick Gregory and Richard Pryor. Because Richard Pryor told the truth. Chris Rock. I love Chris Rock. He's funny, but he's also poignant. He's not there just to make people laugh; he's there to make people wake up, too.

If you had asked me growing up what a stylist does or what a magazine editor does, I would have had no clue - how do you research something like that when you are a first-born child of an immigrant who only grew up knowing doctor, engineer, and lawyer as careers?

Right after undergrad, I started doing low-level work on health issues in sub-Saharan Africa, and what struck me was the disconnect between how people in New York would speak about some of the issues people were facing. At the time, 2006-ish, there were a number of big media campaigns to raise awareness about HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.

In our subconscious, we all know we're playing roles.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

You don't realize until afterwards that if you feed the subconscious, it will bleed into your everyday life.

Whatever you determine to be true in the subconscious becomes true for you.

Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change.

I think art, at its best, happens on a conscious and a subconscious level.

I've never detected a correlation between where I am and what I write. I think there could be something subconscious, though. And I can't really speak for my subconscious.

I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it.