Quotes About Awareness

I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate the overspill of sound which metro and subway riders are oblivious to because they notice no one and nothing around them.

I've always had a knack for hitting the mark perfectly. Even when I'm walking or running, I'm very good at not having to look down.

You can't meditate on walking or certain human habits. You concentrate too much on the way you walk, and you'll start walking pretty weird.

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

I don't think men realize that when a woman walks out every single day, there's an unconscious way we cater to making some man comfortable. That's our experience.

If I get the walk of a character, that helps me find them. So I'm constantly looking at airports and train stations, registering walks.

I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance.

All of my fights are planned. I study my opponents from A to Z. How he walks, how he looks, how he speaks, gestures of the human body, which is a certain language that provides you lots of information if you have the ability to read it. You just need to pay attention to it and gain experience over the years.

Sexism definitely exists - you see that in all walks of life.

If you're sitting around and doing Chekhov and the cat walks in, you must pay attention to the cat. You cannot continue the dialogue of Chekhov without including the cat. So on live television, we'd automatically go into ad-lib gear.

When someone walks into me, whether it's my fault or not, I say, 'Sorry.'

Long walks force a certain meditative awareness. You're not moving so fast that you miss the world's details passing by - in fact, you can stop to inspect something that might catch your eye.

Take lots of walks. It's the best way to discover your world, both inner and outer.

Every black man in Chicago walks through the world differently, and I think what young black boys do is observe, and that's what gives them their road map.

When you are on the street, if someone walks towards you it's better to look down. But we were always looking at people in the eye to try to provoke something.

I like to take walks and getting out and seeing things. These experiences are so irreplaceable and give you a whole different perspective on the greater context that you're in. If I didn't try to take advantage of that, I'd be missing out on a lot of really interesting things.

Until we get rid of racial bias, sexism, homophobia in society, it will exist in all walks of society.

Zahara likes to hide from Angie, who always knows, right when she walks in the room, that Z's playing.

I'm very much a person who walks on egg shells.

I've found that I do some of my best thinking during our early morning walks - those few hours after the garbage trucks have gone and before the coffee shops open when Manhattan is as asleep as it ever will be. For that one hour each morning, I'm focused on the now.

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.