Quotes About Awareness

Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and vision. We just have to learn how to find them. And see, in truth, what they bring us.

To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.

I had two parts of my body: my left side, which was strong and somewhat dumb, and the other side was weak and hard to control but perhaps smarter. It gave me a very strong sense of the duality of the plane that we live in.

The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.

A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us by missionaries representing other religions than do the rather weak political and cultural arguments of the secularists.

Concentration may be my weak point.

I once told a white South African woman that her food was as weak as the Rand, and she complained of racism. Now I watch what I say.

If I simply stay in that moment on the pitch and read the game, I can do so much more.

Messi often has a crowd of opponents around him, but with Neymar on the pitch, too, at least two of those opposition players will have to be aware of him.

Try to be on every pitch, try to be in the moment, and try to think every ball's going to come at you, no matter if it's not, but trying to get that mindset going.

When you're on the pitch, you can't think about what the fans are thinking.

As players, we have to concentrate with what happens on the pitch, not off it.

Never let yourself get fooled by the same pitcher on the same pitch on the same day.

It's easy to sit there in the dugout when the game's going on and talk, chitchat about this and that. But I think paying attention, watching the pitcher, watching the game develop, putting yourself in situations you're not even in yet, anticipating the game, stuff like that, I think that really helps you take that extra step.

My pitch count as a general rule was 135. And I knew how many pitches I had when I went to the mound for the last three innings.

It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy.

I know more now than I did in the past about the process of democratization. I know more about the pitfalls.

I don't need pity. I want to be looked at like a musician, because I am one. I happen to be deaf.

What I wonder most about the Anthropocene is not when did it start - but when, and how, will it end? Will it end? Or is it possible that our own growing awareness of our role on Earth can itself play a pivotal role in shaping the outcome toward one that we would desire?

I'm not proud of this, but I had a lot of misconceptions about American foster care. To me, foster care meant that a child would be placed with you, then taken away. I didn't want to go through all of that.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

I think places that need the rubber duck the most are the ones in distress.

We are a plague on the Earth.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.