Quotes About Awareness

How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives.

I've learned never to be surprised if what must inevitably happen happens right now.

It's hard to make up your bed while you're still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason.

There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to bring up the subject.

While I find that I can keep my nose out of other people's business, I do have a curiosity as to their non-business activities.

I look at it this way. I'm not an eavesdropper; I have an attention surplus disorder.

Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus.

I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.

Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.

People are charming because they aren't aware of their charm.

The great talent and the greatest difficulty - isn't it what we commonly call "charm" in daily life? People are charming because they aren't aware of their charm. That's what I'm looking for: true charm. That's what cinema needs.

Make visible what, without you, might have never been seen.

Un cri, un bruit. Leur résonance nous fait deviner une maison, une forêt, une plaine, une montagne. Leur rebond nous indique des distances.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

Be the first to see what you see as you see it.

Practice the precept: find without seeking

be sure of having used to the full all that is communicated by immobility and silence.

The thing that matters is not what they show me but what they hide from me and, above all, what they do not suspect is in them.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

I hold the very simpleminded view that everything is related to everything else-and that every one is related to everyone else, and that every species is related to every other. The only way out of this tissue of interrelations, it seems to me, is to stop paying attention, and to substitute something else-hallucination, greed, pride, or hatred, for example-for sensuous connection to the facts. I think it is not the world's task to entertain us, but ours to take an interest in the world.

To do good thing in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.

Truth that peepsOver the glasses' edge when dinner's done.

You never know what life means till you die:Even throughout life, 'tis death that makes life live,Gives it whatever the significance.