Quotes About Awareness

Not all illusions are visual. There are illusions of thought, which we call cognitive illusions.

What you see is all there is

I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American community - that we get a little nervous when you start having scenes or dialogue that we know is going to be viewed and heard on a national or global scale.

Before September 11, terrorism was viewed as something ugly but you lived with it.

One of the aims of higher education is to broaden perspectives, and what better way than by a home stay in a really different country, like Bangladesh or Senegal? Time abroad also leaves one more aware of the complex prism of suspicion through which the United States is often viewed.

These diseases, both alcoholism and addiction, much like bipolar or depression and different illnesses, are still not seen as real diseases. People shy away from seeking help because it's viewed as being somewhat morally off the path, that they've lost their way.

My goal is to make the viewer a little bit smarter.

It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation.

I do feel if we underestimate the viewer, it's at our own peril.

As a viewer, you can comment on an actor's looks, but don't target him/her. As it is, he/she may be battling certain physical, emotional or health problems.

The greatest skill that I have is what the viewer has: I listen. I try to listen silently.

I think the 'Predator' franchise has been great on a number of levels. When it comes to online safety for kids, and adults, I think we've raised awareness and created a dialogue that didn't exist three-and-a-half years ago. Clearly, it has resonated with viewers for a variety of reasons, and I'm attached to it.

Younger viewers have a very strong detector for what's real and legit and what's phony or pandering.

I think viewers realize that people are a lot more three-dimensional than TV has traditionally portrayed them, particularly in news.

Television viewers, they've been around a long time. They've been watching this thing now for 50 years. I mean, they know exactly what's happening when it comes to television programming. You can't put anything over on them anymore.

It's great that 'Glee' is making viewers more aware of the arts. People appreciate it.

I find a lot of up-and-coming musicians I enjoy, present them to my viewers - and hopefully inflate the growth of these artists by putting them in front an audience that wouldn't have been aware of them.

One cannot take natural resources for granted just to entertain viewers.

I run into viewers all the time who have no idea I've moved to N.Y.C. I think, for many of them, a studio is a studio is a studio.

You can Google how many goals a player has scored in the last few seasons, or against this particular side, but our job is to point the viewers to something that is happening in the game that they may not have seen or thought of.

I was concerned about the viewers' acceptance. But people have found a comic slant in me, which I was never aware of.

Content pertaining to LGBT community is something the Indian viewers have never been very comfortable watching.

I was very much aware of my leverage after being on a TV show with millions of viewers every week. That was promotion like crazy, so I wanted to see what I could do, how far I could take it independently.

I just saw the emotion in everything, so I got to feel everything that was going on and that I was viewing, but I couldn't think in terms of structure, which is the whole point of deep focus.