Quotes About Awareness

The obvious tactic for avoiding alcohol-precipitated crashes is to avoid riding after drinking. And that's a decision you have to make before your judgment is impaired.

The human brain has a deceptive habit of filling in missing information and ignoring new information that doesn't fit the expectation.

it's not only a matter of controlling the motorcycle you're riding but also controlling the situation around you.

In order to help you remember that, here's a little ditty you can recite to yourself before you ease out the clutch: "He was right, dead right, as he sped along. But he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong.

Rider training instructors often suggest that a rider should be looking twelve seconds ahead, or the distance he or she will be covering over the next twelve seconds. That doesn't mean you should be focused only on what's happening at a point twelve seconds ahead. Instead, you should focus on everything that's going on within that twelve-second zone.

It's pretty obvious that when bikes and cars try to occupy the same space at the same time, the motorcyclist gets hurt a lot more seriously and more often than the driver. And when bikes and trucks collide, motorcyclists are often injured fatally.

It's critical for motorcyclists to understand how motorists prioritize what they see around them and how much they have to prioritize. Drivers handle this huge task by prioritizing into these categories: 1. potential threats 2. strong emotions 3. personal relevance 4. everything else (e.g., shopping list, text message, GPS, radio)

Long experience had taught him that fear lay in the next moment, not in this one.

He says, for example, that "the snowy Alps were visible in the distance from the camp, but no one was able to muster it within himself to give any thought to how beautiful they really are; this can only be done by one who is able to look at the world with the eyes of a man, not a slave." Majdanski

Reading (...) is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.

I now realize that I should blame myself when men indulge in such wildly wishful thinking that they see a sexual invitation in a simple smile.

It strengthened his long-held conviction that one must never underestimate anyone or cling to preconceived ideas.

one must never underestimate anyone or cling to preconceived ideas.

up, and at first it was not clear to him why. It was

Lo que más me aterra en este mundo —le dice Neil a Wayne— es la posibilidad de que le destroces la vida a alguien sin tú saberlo. O incluso de que le cambies la vida. Detesto pensar que uno puede tener ese poder, yo sería una madre deplorable.

paraphrase Confucius, real knowledge is finding out the depths of one's own ignorance.

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

I had no idea this thing was televised. Boy, is my face red.

Enjoy every sandwich.

What the hell's the date, Paul?

I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.

If you believe in coincidence, then you aren't paying attention.

I dream with open eyes,' he answered, looking around at the door, 'and others see my dreams. That is all.

But one of them has to do with the sense of, the sense of capturing, capturing what the world feels like to us, in the sort of way that I think that a reader can tell "Another sensibility like mine exists.