Quotes About Awareness

Don't miss out on blessings because you can't see that.

You can't be so busy building a life that you forget to live.

Often we are so intent on being our mate's everything that nothing else matters until, one day, we wake up and realize we no longer know our own purpose.

In tasting rooms I can never tell how tipsy I am. But once I'm outside, the awareness factor of my inebriation is greatly magnified. Everything looks and feels different. The surrounding flora seems to quiver. Colors are riotously iridescent. Sounds are louder; birds in the trees seem to mock you. All sense of reality is swamped. Anything out of the norm might happen!

Only the man that knows to little, knows too much." Nero Wolfe

Nothing is obvious in itself. Obviousness is subjective.

You can't base your actions on the theory that anyone you don't keep your eye on is apt to get killed.

but I had long since learned from Wolfe that the corner the light doesn't reach is the one the dime rolled to.

The avoidance of idiocy should be the primary and constant concern of every intelligent person," - Nero Wolfe

No, she did not denounce the impostor, but indubitably she made him aware that she knew he was not Eric Hagh. She may have done so merely by the way she looked at him, or she may have asked him some naive and revealing question. In any case, he knew he was in deadly peril from her, and he acted quickly and audaciously—and with dexterity, taking her keys from her bag. No, he is not a bungler, but—

The avoidance of idiocy should be the primary and constant concern of every intelligent person. It is mine. I am sometimes successful.

With everybody. Lots of them don't know it. Most of them up here wouldn't say that word, nigger, but they've got that word in them. Everybody. It's in them buried somewhere, but it's not dead. Some of them don't know they've got it and they wouldn't believe it, but it's there. That's what I knew I'd have to face when I sat there on the bed last night and tried to decide what to do.

I was having an experience that was not new to me. I had suddenly discovered that a decision had been made, by me, upon full consideration, without my knowing it.

skepticism is a good watchdog if you know when to take the leash off.

I never try to do any deep thinking while I'm driving; the thinking gets you nowhere and the driving might get you where you would rather not be;

The subconscious is not a grave; it's a cistern.

Wolfe's head moved. 'You've seen that play, Archie?' 'Yes, sir. I would say a quarter to ten, maybe twenty to." 'Have you seen it, Saul?' 'Yes, sir. Twenty to ten.' 'You know that?' 'Yes, sir. Just my habit of noticing things.' 'Don't disparage it. The more you put in a brain, the more it will hold--if you have one...

But when you're there, there you are, and

You are so engrossed in the fact that you are oblivious to its environment

In a moment Wolfe said gruffly, "It is faintly encouraging that you are aware that you were stupid.

She leveled the eyes at me, and, finding it difficult to meet them casually, I met them consciously.

I don't try to abolish reality by shutting my eyes, nor do I gobble garbage.

There are various reasons for keeping your mouth shut, but the best one is that you have nothing to say.

Perhaps you don't know all there is to know about a woman after watching her at an evening of bridge, but you should know more than when you sat down.