Quotes About Awareness

Feedback—both the act of giving it and taking it—is our first step in becoming smarter, more mindful about the connection between our environment and our behavior. Feedback teaches us to see our environment as a triggering mechanism. In some cases, the feedback itself is the trigger. Consider

The more aware we are, the less likely any trigger, even in the most mundane circumstances, will prompt hasty unthinking behavior that leads to undesirable consequences.

If you know what matters to you, it's easier to commit to change. If you can't identify what matters to you, you won't know when it's being threatened. And in my experience, people only change their ways when what they truly value is threatened.

Destiny finds those who listen, and fate finds the rest.

Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.

We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.

Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.

One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.

We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

W rezultacie subsydia prze?o?y?y si? na liczby, o których zrobi?o si? g?o?no. Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, CAFOD, Katolicka Agencja na rzecz Rozwoju, przeprowadzi?a w 2002 roku analiz?, która wykaza?a, ?e jedna krowa europejska otrzymuje od Unii oko?o 2,2 dolara na dzie? - 800 rocznie. Czyli ka?da z tych krów by?a bogatsza ni? 3,5 miliarda ludzi, po?owa ludno?ci ?wiata.

El atisbo de reojo delata sin excepción al alumno que alberga alguna intención de copiarse. Los preceptores debían alcanzar esa misma destreza para obtener un sigilo igualmente implacable. No para "mirar sin ver", que es como la frase hecha define al distraído, sino al contrario, para ver sin mirar, para poder verlo todo sin que parezca estar mirando nada.

Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

The next step after this is applying that state of being—that thin sliver of sliding into place that feels wrong and so right at the same time, that makes you question your sanity—to your green lights. Feel your way through them instead

I began waking up slowly into history, from which we do not emerge as from other nightmares.

On the night of New Year's Day, I thought of a wonderful New Year's resolution for the men who run the world: get to know the people who only live in it.

As citizens, I think we all have an exhausting duty to now what our governments are up to, and it is cowardice or laziness to ask: what can I do about it anyway? Every squeak counts, if only in self-respect.

Someday our children, whom we love, may blame us for dishonoring America because we did not care enough about children 10,000 miles away [written, 1967].

We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance