Quotes About Awareness

You have to focus on what you're passionate about. For me it's the forests and of course, because I'm concerned about the forests, I'm concerned about the way paper is made.

I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.

I am passionate about talking to women about their breast health.

It's no secret - if you know me, have ever met me or have shared a meal with me - that I'm a passionate environmentalist.

Listening is an activity. It's not passive. We are creating the world by listening all the time.

We always talk about how, obviously, there is still very in-your-face aggressive racism. But there's a lot of passive racism that, in the moment, you don't even realize is racist. You chalk it up as a strange interaction you had, and then you look at the context of it later on and realize the root of it was racism.

I think the most important thing for a listener is to realize that he, too, should not listen to music in a passive way; that if you sit in a concert hall and expect to be moved or taken off your seat by the music, it will not happen.

Often with bigotry it's passive not active.

You don't want to be passive through motion and then try to produce force. That's very scary. That's where you can injure yourself a lot of times.

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.

The computer is your passport, not only to the future but to knowing what's going around you.

I have an American passport, but I don't always remember I'm an American citizen.

Eight minutes past the hour here in Belgium - and presumably eight minutes past the hour everywhere in the world.

I never look past an opponent that I have.

I remember that in the past I was overwhelmed with the mystery of anxiety, or the mystery of depression, but now when you feel that feeling coming on you no longer go into fight-or-flight mode. You go: 'Oh, I know what this is' and you ride it out.

I think I'm past my due date. I just feel it.

Climate change is moving faster than we are, but we don't give up because we know that climate action is the only path.

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

I don't think we can sit on the fence anymore. We have to make up our minds. And if one wants to choose the path of darkness, then so be it, but be conscious of what it is you're doing.

While I enjoy it, I will continue to go onstage. While I contribute something, fine. I don't want to be dragging my feet. I don't want to become pathetic, but I think I will be lucid enough. I'll know when to stop.

Overeem is really smart when he's fighting, had the patience to wait for the right moment.

A noun is not a name you give something. It is something you watch becoming itself, and you have to have the patience to find out what it is.

Racism is a cancer. Black people have been dealing with this ever since we landed on these shores in shackles and chains. If we've been doing it for that long, those of us who are impatient need to be a little more patient and keep on addressing those things, not ignoring it. White people need to do the same thing. Don't turn a blind eye to it.