Quotes About Awareness

The boy's mother said he was autistic and sometimes spaced out, staring at his hands, but because I didn't know what autism was, really, I figured he was more or less mesmerized by his existence. I was romanticizing the situation because the kid was probably distracting himself or daydreaming or something, but I thought maybe he was like Hamlet looking at his hands, thinking sincerely about what it means to have been born.

Now imagine a company that has created an automotive product allowing you to only change the oil in your car once every year. That would be a pretty amazing product. Let's say you can drive up to fifteen thousand miles between oil changes. Incredible. The problem is, nobody has heard of this company. A rookie mistake would be to "brand" the company rather than "market" the product.

Quienes se dan cuenta de que la historia épica de la vida, en realidad, no trata de ellos mismos sino de quienes les rodean, acaban ganando.

ONLY A FEW TIMES IN OUR LIVES DO WE GET TO know, in the moment, the impact of the moment itself.

Your Marketing Should Enlighten Customers

When you are born, you wake slowly to everything. Your brain doesn't stop growing until you turn twenty-six, so from birth to twenty-six, God is slowly turning the lights on, and you're groggy and pointing at things saying circle and blue and car and then sex and job and health care.

STORYBRAND PRINCIPLE SEVEN: NEVER ASSUME PEOPLE UNDERSTAND HOW YOUR BRAND CAN CHANGE THEIR LIVES. TELL THEM.

we have to stop blasting them with noise.

Darius Goes West.

You don't realize your story is changing you until you look back.

believe that the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time.

I believe that the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time.

Some people skip through life, some people are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder whether we are moving through time or time is moving through us.

I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time.

YOU DON'T KNOW a story is happening to you when you're in it.

All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's good to be expected.

A hunch is a deduction your subconscious has made from evidence you don't yet know you have.

You won't always have the luxury of a second chance. So be careful with your first one.

Patta's expression seemed cordial enough, though from past experience Brunetti knew this was meaningless: vipers liked to bask on rocks in the sunshine, did they not?

Brunetti had long been of the opinion that one of the handicaps of stupidity was its inability to imagine intelligence.

Brunetti had recently read a book that said a goshawk could see the veins in the wings of a butterfly: who knew what could be seen? Or felt. Possibility was limitless, each of us a separate universe of choice and capacity.

As he started down towards his office, Brunetti thought about how taking a look at one's unconscious motives and prejudices was like walking barefoot through cloudy water: you never knew whether you were going to step on something disgusting or bang your toe into a rock.

his own world lived in constant discovery of its own ignorance.

prejudice: so comforting until someone noticed