Quotes About Awareness

Don't take for granted things.

Sometimes you take for granted what you have on your own doorstep.

I've been talking to a lot of young people, especially here in America. I let them know that the people who they're competing with for opportunities live all over the place. They're probably not in your city, state, or country; they are hungry, and they are grinding! Some of the things that a lot of us take for granted, these people don't.

There is so much that people take for granted.

Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that's closest to us. And you just gotta remember not to take for granted that person that's closest to you.

The letters, the food - I had no idea I wouldn't see a shrimp for three years. You don't look at those little things you take for granted so easy, until you get sat down, get locked up, or get into a position were you see other people who are less fortunate than you - that don't have anybody.

That's an interesting question. I would say that in general Americans know very little about the law. It's one of those things that most of us take for granted.

Sight is something you take for granted until you think you might lose it.

Creating a distraction is a skill we should all have. Never take for granted your ability to spot something interesting out of the corner of you eye and take attention away from your thoughtlessness.

Sometimes you know a friend so well, you take for granted, 'Oh, they're just like this, and they're going to be okay.'

Don't take for granted how much of an impact making small changes can have.

As a white man who has had privileges that others could not depend on or take for granted, I've clearly had advantages over the course of my life.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

A life-threatening illness or two certainly gives you an awareness of your own mortality. It heightens your sense of gratitude for things that previously, if you've not taken them for granted, you perhaps never appreciated how precious they were. That's almost a platitude, but one has to state the obvious.

In our will, there lives something which is perpetually observing us inwardly. It is easy to look upon this inner spectator as something intended to be taken pictorially; the spiritual investigator knows it to be a reality, just as sense-perceptible objects are realities.

All the reading in the world cannot immunize you from the devastating effects of psychopaths. Everyone, including the experts, can be taken in, conned, and left bewildered by them. A good psychopath can play a concerto on anyone's heart strings.

I love what I do, and I just remember that every breath and every moment is a gift and it can be taken away at any time, so I want to appreciate it and be grateful for it while it's here.

I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.

In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

My years with failing vision have prompted me to learn about the nature of the eye and the incredible gift of sight, which I had always taken for granted until it began to slip away.

I've taken for granted that we have clean air to breathe in cities, relatively speaking, and most people have access to clean water. But we can't take these things for granted.

We are living in a time in which movies such as 'Super Size Me' and 'An Inconvenient Truth' have made box-office history, and books such as 'No Logo' and my own, 'The Silent Takeover,' are bestsellers.

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.