Quotes About Awareness

Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it."18

good-looking people are aware that other people's positive evaluations of them are not based on their actual traits and abilities but are often caused by an attractiveness "halo

When the newspaper detailed the suicide of a young person, it was young drivers who then piled their cars into trees, poles, and embankments with fatal results; but when the news story concerned an older person's suicide, older drivers died in such crashes. l advised, then, to take special care in our travels at these times.

In large measure, who we are with respect to any choice is where we are, attentionally, in the moment before the choice.

tactic can be particularly successful when the audience is already aware of the weakness; thus, when a communicator mentions it, little additional damage is done, as no new information is added—except, crucially, that the communicator is an honest individual. Another enhancement occurs when the speaker uses a transitional word—such as however, or but, or yet—that channels the listeners' attention away from the weakness and onto a countervailing strength.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. —G. K. CHESTERTON T

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. —G. K. CHESTERTON

It is odd that despite their current widespread use and looming future importance, most of us know very little about our automatic behavior patterns. Perhaps that is so precisely because of the mechanistic, unthinking manner in which they occur. Whatever the reason, it is vital that we clearly recognize one of their properties: They make us terribly vulnerable to anyone who does know how they work.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it."2

The time to react protectively is when we feel ourselves liking the practitioner more than we should under the circumstances.

pluralistic ignorance "in which each person decides that since nobody is concerned, nothing is wrong. Meanwhile, the danger may be mounting to the point where a single individual, uninfluenced by the seeming calm of others, would react.

All the weapons of influence discussed in this book work better under some conditions than under others. If we are to defend ourselves adequately against any such weapon, it is vital that we know its optimal operating conditions in order to recognize when we are most vulnerable to its influence.

Once we can directly experience something without the contamination of judgment or evaluation, our reflections on that experience are much richer and more meaningful.

I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.

Shopping is never over," Susan said. "It is merely suspended.

The modern world is turning people into package purchasers with no control over things that can deeply affect their lives and health. We are losing touch with the world of nature and with ourselves as humans.

without knowing what is funny, one is constantly in danger of being funny without knowing it.

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.

There's nothing to this telepathy business. It's all in the mind.

RICH I'm lamenting. I've lost my innocence. CROMWELL You lost that some time ago. If you've only just noticed, it can't have been very important to you.

I'm breathing . . . are you breathing too? It's nice, isn't it?

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.