Quotes About Awareness

The amazing thing about being a bike rider is that you always know from the first turn of the pedals what sort of a day you are going to have.

Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see.

In our country, learned ignorance is on the rise.

Knowledge of self is acquired through a shattered mirror. But we can always close our eyes.

Man is never so foolish as when he fools himself.

Knowledge of self is a precious commodity, dearer than the finest gemstone. The mirror I held before me now was not laced with gold filigree. It was cold and flat and bared every shadow on my soul.

All we have to do to see is open our eyes and look. As we teach what we learn, I am in essence talking to myself.

How do we even talk about the future when there's less and less of it every minute?

Rutherford's view was that if some armed nut decided to take out his frustrations on the congregation, he wanted to be prepared.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.

Think globally, act locally.

The key to success is having the awareness to appreciate – in the words of the French novelist Anaïs Nin 'we see the world not as it is but as we are.' It's recognizing that we see events through our own mental filters and give our own meaning to those events – a meaning which may be very different to someone else's.

When Larry Kramer tells Mathilde Krim in Interview about the closeted gay man at the National Institutes of Health who buried the AIDS data for two years, that's when I understand how doomed we were before we ever knew. It will be recorded that the dead in the first decade of the calamity died of our indifference.

I knew we must stay in absolute sync, for the enemy had grown so subtle, its camouflage so chameleon, we had to be on constant watch.

I want the two million—or the five million, depending on whose scenario piques your fancy—to have themselves tested and know, so I will have people to talk to. Because after midnight and during weekends

I want the two million—or the five million, depending on whose scenario piques your fancy—to have themselves tested and know, so I will have people to talk to. Because after midnight and during weekends I cannot talk to those who play at business as usual.

If later on, as we read this, we might think "How happy we were then!" at least we'll have that. That as we lived them, these moments, we knew they were important, and that's all there is.

I know white folks, they can't take it. Because all of their lives, white people have been told they're the shit. White people always told you 'You're the best, you're everything, you're wonderful, you come from heaven, you're eve-ry-thing, you've never done nothing to nobody, you wear the white hat, you're the good fucking guy,' and the minute they hear [a] a nigga talking about [race] it freaks em.

Whoever dismisses bigotry or underestimates its impact has never lived under the pain.

You already speak German; you just don't know it yet.

In dealing with a change, a problem, or a discovery, awareness is often followed by a period of acceptance before we can take action. This process is sometimes referred to as the "Three A's" — Awareness, Acceptance, and Action.

With increasing awareness of both how we feel at any particular moment, and why we have chosen to feel that way, we develop the ability to change our emotional state if we wish to do so. We generate an awareness of whether we have chosen our current feelings or have allowed them to be implanted by an outside person or circumstance.

Each of us is precisely where it has always been known we would be, doing exactly what we are doing right now.