Quotes About Awareness

What I do for a living is listen.

For my mum, it was really important to teach me and my brothers, so it came more from her to be honest than anything else. She made sure that we just read loads of books about slavery, about black culture, about black history but I don't think everyone would have had that obviously.

I think it's really important to try to eat seasonally as much as possible. It helps put people in touch with what's happening locally and with nature.

I'm a fan of the fly-on-the-wall-type documentary, even if I'm not particularly interested in the location of the wall.

Not being locked into one set of feelings, which you run the risk of mistaking for the truth, you have greater and more intense access to all feeling states, including those you would never choose to act out.

There are times in the game when you have lapses. It just means you're not as locked in as when you first get in or at the end of the game.

Most of the time I'm really not aware of what I am doing. I'm just so locked into the moment.

In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.

I basically gave up drinking. Personally, I thought I was drinking too much and, over the long run, it caught up with me.

A little bit of attention can go a long way.

I think we've come a long way with women's rights, but we've got a long way to go.

The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking.

I think longevity is more important than trying to make people realize you're around every second.

We all know that looking back only gets you into an accident because you're going to run into something without seeing it.

I've always been interested in arrival, and coming to a space, and even to looking back at where you were.

I'm looking forward to making people open their eyes and recognize exactly how good I am at what I do.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

The Lord knows who we really are, what we really think, what we really do, and who we really are becoming.

Losers don't always know that they are losers.

I think with any movie, the more you know, it loses some of its power.

When your father loses his job you're not sure what the future is going to be. I was conscious that people were interested in what was happening to my father.

The authentic experience, where is that? Living the moment. That is something that we're losing.

I'm hyper-focused on loss. But I know it's just the impermanence of being here.

At the end of the day, what I have is the power to give a louder voice to people who have issues, questions and problems.