Quotes About Awareness

As a documentary filmmaker, I try to be sensitive to my subjects.

It's important that comedians talk about difficult and dangerous subjects; you have to be very careful that you don't just hear the subject heading and think, oh, this is bad, they shouldn't be talking about that. You have to hear what's being said.

Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression.

Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.

Back when we started, people didn't even know what a submarine sandwich was. The product was only sold in a few markets.

Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.

One thing I've learned to do with my age, I really don't look ahead. For years, I've been preaching the precious present and having to always subscribe to it.

There's so much to consume that it's very easy to read a headline in the news outlets that you subscribe to that you maybe support and go 'This is how I feel.'

Don't read, click links or subscribe to any media organisations that peddle sinister untruths and stereotypes.

I don't want to kill ads. I think advertising is great, and I'm very aware that there's multiple revenue streams in television, subscription and advertising. But I also don't want to put my head in the sand, and I think the world is changing.

In June 1992, I discovered a lump in my breast. A subsequent mammogram, ultrasound and a needle biopsy proved negative. But my instinct said it still didn't feel right, so I had a lumpectomy. I then got the news that it was cancer.

Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

A lot of people talk, but they don't say anything. And people listen, and they don't absorb anything of substance.

I work to raise awareness of the dangers of drinking and driving and substance abuse, primarily with youth.

While we spend our life asking questions about the nature of cancer and ways to prevent or cure it, society merrily produces oncogenic substances and permeates the environment with them.

Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

Luck is not an acceptable substitute for early detection.

The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

It's a good note for any young hopeful in this business to take: study up and make sure you are informed at all times because knowing how to anticipate someone's subtle nuances in a performance will only elevate your own art!

One of the things that women really excel at is reading and reacting to subtle cues. We've always had to do that because men don't have to.

I feel like fear is a very real thing, a very ubiquitous thing, and it can be very subtle.

It's very easy to get caught up in everything that's going on and just daily stuff being a distraction. When you have all that taken away from you, your daily activity becomes a lot more subtle, and you appreciate it all a lot more.