Quotes About Awareness

Awareness is the key to self-defense.

If you learn how to read the different operating systems and how they affect people's behavior, you will be much safer.

Think about self-defense less as what you do and more about what you don't do.

Como se de se

What's amazing about this rule is that people don't even know consciously that it exists, yet it is the kingpin that keeps millions of people chained down. The rule is simple, and incredibly insidious: "Thou shalt not question the operating system thou art given!" What's weird is that you can rebel against the system, but you can't question it.

The first component of self-defense, "understanding violence

An immediate threat consists of what is actually happening not what you're afraid might occur.

Radar, then, is the first step in making people decide that it's not worth it to mess with you.

Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?

and they also knew that they were undefended.3

If I knew I was positive, why would I have ever gone to PAW to take a test?

Nobody could've ever known I was positive because I didn't know.

But nobody is listening to those points. They are just listening to the gossip which is saying that I knew I was positive for all these years because I had a faked test a few years ago.

Je venais de tomber dans mon propre passé. Fort heureusement, je connaissais bien les risques inhérents aux paradoxes temporels, et j'eus le bon réflexe de ne pas m'attarder.

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.

Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it.

Voor sommige mensen is geluk zoiets ongewoons, zo zeldzaam, nieuw of vreemd, dat ze er nooit van kunnen genieten als ze gelukkig zijn, maar altijd pas achteraf, als het besef komt dat ze toen, op dit of dat moment, gelukkig waren.

The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

Everything great that we know has come from neurotics never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.