Quotes About Awareness

Many of the people who consented to talk about their private lives in front of millions of television viewers would say that they were sharing their stories as a way to give comfort [to] fellow sufferers, to raise public awareness, to give a voice to their pain. None of them would ever admit that it was all about ratings and voyeurism and lurid, grotesque curiosity.

If you already know what your response will be before you've heard what the other person has said, you are not listening.

Depression is a very narcissistic thing, it's a self involvement that is so deep and intense that it means the sufferer cannot get out of her own head long enough to see what real good, what genuine loveliness, there is in the world around her.

It's a hard time to be human. We know too much and too little.

When she thinks a book is very good, what she says to herself is: yes, that's how things are. I hadn't thought of it before, but that's how things are.

Don't just stand there like two posts," she says crisply to us, "or someone'll come along and tie a horse to you.

When you truly understand one thing—a hawk, a juniper tree, a rock—you will begin to understand everything.

Close attention to mollusks and frigate birds and wolves makes us aware not only of our own human identity but also of how much more there is, an assertion of our imperfect hunger for mystery. "Without mystery life shrinks," wrote biologist Edward O. Wilson. "The completely known is a numbing void to all active minds.

That wild animals have largely moved out of our view is of small note to many of us. We think, abstractly, that they live out there somewhere, browsing or flying or killing or doing whatever it is they do, and we think that we are keeping them among us by the sheer force of our desire, even as we consume, insatiably, the places where they live.

Presuming that a nonspeaking child has nothing to say is like presuming that an adult without a car has nowhere to go.

It demands that we give voice to their thoughts and feelings, even when their voices are nonverbal.

The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're good at fussing and figuring out. We function well in a sea of unknowns. Our experience has only prepared us to deal with confusion. A programmer who denies this is probably lying, or else is densely unaware of himself.

But you can't stop knowing something, can you?

Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.

Only I am sure I met no one on the way, because if I had I should have had to master myself, walk like a woman in her senses, even give a greeting. And when you have to, you can.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

to treat a human being as an animal - as a mere space-binder - because humans have certain animal propensities, is an error of the same type and grossness as to treat a cube as a surface because it has surface properties.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El mapa no es el territorio" (Alfred Korzybski)

They became aware of it suddenly just after four o'clock

None of the dogs seemed to sense what was happening

Tom McLeod turned to Macklin. "Do you hear that?" he asked.

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.