Quotes About Awareness

I appeal to Muslims and Hindus, beware of the election plans of the BJP.

Throughout Africa, as in much of the world, women are responsible for tilling the fields, deciding what to plant, nurturing the crops, and harvesting the food. They are the first to be aware of environmental damage that harms agricultural production.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

I think plants present an opportunity for people to look closely at something and get invested in something that's truly very much outside of themselves.

One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.

I avoid using plastic bags.

We can get rid of all the plastic bags and plastic straws in the world - and we need to - but nothing is going to get better until we can make the people at the top see that there are changes to be made.

I watched a documentary called 'Plastic Oceans' on Netflix, and it was an eye-opener for me.

What humans aren't good at is trying to consume less, to consume less plastic, to not be lazy.

A lot of these catchers don't understand that they are blocking the plate and they don't have the ball. You're not allowed to block the plate without the ball.

You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams.

Certain guys, they can see a guy do a certain thing with their glove and know what pitch is coming. I couldn't do that. But I can get on first base and I can tell you by his move if that pitcher is going to first base or home plate every time.

I trust how much my ball moves. I can throw it at you or this far off the plate and have it end up on the black. That's where I kind of went to the next level. I knew what all my pitches were doing. Even in '14, I didn't have that ability.

When I'm at the plate, I'm not thinking about what I'm trying to do with the bat - I'm thinking about what the pitcher is trying to do with the ball.

Sadly, in my work on shows like 'Eat Well For Less?' I know that people ARE misinformed about what's on their plate. Many would be shocked to discover their Friday fish and chips is close to 1,400 calories.

It's a blessing to be able to use my platform to bring more awareness to the local causes that are near and dear to my heart.

I have a platform to be able to do something to help other people beat cancer.

It's one of the reasons I want to do 'Dancing with the Stars': it's a platform to educate.

It takes every ounce of my concentration and focus every night to be in character, to sing in good voice, to not fall off the platform. I use my peripheral vision more than I have ever used it in my life.

I'm an ambassador for World of Children and St Jude's, it always been very important for me to use modeling as a platform to give back or raise awareness for causes that are important.

I didn't realize that the platform could be this big until Colin Kaepernick first took a knee. When he did that, that was kind of an 'aha' moment for me.

My goal is to use football as a platform to speak out on things that need addressing.

Celebrities have a platform, and people listen to them. And there's a lot of people that we are able to touch, who aren't watching activists and aren't watching the news, that are watching what celebrities say.

As footballers we have a massive platform that we should be using way more than we actually are.