Quotes About Awareness

Though it's with you at every moment, it's always something of a surprise to discover that you can be at once alive and alone.

The true conquests, the only ones that cause no regret, are those made over ignorance.'68

Above all, he was the first significant political figure to spot the twin totalitarian dangers of Communism and Nazism, and to point out the best ways of dealing with both.

I grinned in spite of the awfulness of being touched without warning.

The strategic inflection point is the time to wake up an listen

if your organization uses e-mail, a lot more people know what's going on in your business than did before, and they know it a lot faster than they used to.

A poor performer has a strong tendency to ignore his problem.

Which five would they be? Put another way, which five pieces of information would you want to look at each day, immediately upon arriving at your office?

As a supervisor, you have to be very sensitive toward the various money needs of your subordinates and show empathy toward them. You must be especially careful not to project your own circumstances onto others.

People in the trenches are usually in touch with impending changes early

The ability to recognize that the winds have shifted and to take appropriate action before you wreck your boat in crucial to the future of an enterprise

Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari. It's the only one though that we'll celebrate with a conscious awareness. Very few of you remember your arrival and even fewer of you will attend your own funeral.

And that was my day. You know what I mean.

Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.

The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not tacked on at the end of your life to make up for the disaster years. Whatever time is eaten by a depression is gone forever. The minutes that are ticking by as you experience the illness are minutes you will not know again.

I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand

If you wake up feeling no pain, you know you're dead. (Russian expression)

You don't think in depression that you've put on a grey veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.

The Matrix doesn't want you to know this!

Downgrade the "now". Realise that the current moment is no more real than the past moments in your life.

I have long contended that consciousness is the way information feels.

The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.

the ferret, hunting, eyes on the ground, never hears footsteps of the hawk

If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.