Awareness Quotes - Page 39

• Necessity can set me helpless on my back, but she cannot keep me there; nor can four walls limit my vision.

  Margaret Barber

  Wall, Vision, Four

  Margaret Fairless Barber (1950). “The roadmender: and other writings”

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• [T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically. Awareness of style as a problematic and isolable element in a work of art has emerged in the audience for art only at certain historical moments - as a front behind which other issues, ultimately ethical and political, are being debated.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Issues, Political

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• The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.

  Neal Stephenson

  Mean, Different, Fiction

  Interview with Catherine Asaro, www.sfsite.com. September 1999.

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• Social networking is playing a huge role in creating awareness and mobilizing support for all kinds of common interests. What better way to use this remarkable tool than to change the world?

  Natalie Portman

  Creating, Support, Networking

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• I spent the past week here in India getting a sense of the reality of HIV and AIDS in people's lives. Fathers and mothers are dying, leaving children with no support. Stigma and discrimination is ruining the family lives. There is an urgent need for education, information, and increased awareness of HIV and AIDS. The response needs to be now. We cannot afford to become fatigued.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Even if we act immediately, the world is doomed to lose many of its animal and plant species and this inturn will reduce the ability of ecosystems to deliver vital services to human populations. The Red List gives all of us a practical tool for raising awareness of the biodiversity crisis and for forging new partnerships within the international community.

  Achim Steiner

  Animal, Ecosystems, Giving

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• One cannot enter don Juan's world intellectually, like a dilettante seeking fast and fleeting knowledge. Nor, in don Juan's world, can anything be verified absolutely. The only thing we can do is arrive at a state of increased awareness that allows us to perceive the world around us in a more inclusive manner.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Knowledge, Intelligent, Fleeting

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• I do not claim to have attained optimum emotional well-being. Actually, I think that may be a lifetime goal. For me it’s an ongoing process that requires awareness, knowledge, and practice. I do know what good emotional health feels like, and that motivates me to keep at the practice.

  Andrew Weil

  Emotional, Thinking, Practice

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• To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for them to realize that the photograph can be the source of experience, as well as the reflection of spiritual awareness of the world and of self.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Spiritual, Reflection

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• The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to experience mysteries transcending daily life and from which to recapture, in a Proustian kind of remembrance, the awareness of the cosmic forces that have shaped humankind.

  Rene Dubos

  Mean, Remembrance, Earth

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• For success I consider three factors are necessary: firstly, an awareness of my own strengths and weaknesses; secondly, an accurate understanding of my opponent's strengths and weaknesses; thirdly, a higher aim than momentary satisfaction. I see this aim as being scientific and artistic achievements, which place the game of chess on a par with other arts.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Success, Art, Games

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• Promptings for us to do good come from the Holy Ghost. These promptings nudge us further along the straight and narrow path of discipleship. The natural man doesn't automatically think of doing good. It isn't natural. How many people worry about the car behind them or the person below them? The natural man just doesn't do it. For us, however, these promptings enlarge our awareness of other people's needs and then prod us to act accordingly.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Men, Thinking, People

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• Sexuality is possible without any understanding, without any meditation. Love is possible only with understanding. Compassion is possible only with understanding and meditation, understanding and awareness.

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Compassion, Meditation

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• Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of self-awareness. ... [E]vil is laziness carried to its ultimate, extraordinary extreme.

  M. Scott Peck

  Truth, Pain, Hate

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• Every individual's purpose in tithing is to open up his/her awareness of universal laws. Tithing opens you, to you. You are an unlimited individual, deprived of a fuller, richer life partly because of lack of the tithing experience and expression in life.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Life, Optimistic, Expression

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• Awareness by itself is not enough: it must be joined by mastery. We need gradually to develop a steering ability to keep ourselves from slipping mechanically into this or that sub-personality. Thus we become able to identify with each part of our being as we wish. We can have more choice. It is the difference between being impotently transported by a roller coaster and, instead, driving a car and being able to choose which way to go and for what purpose to make the journey.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Motivational, Journey, Differences

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• There has come about a general public awareness that America is not automatically, and effortlessly, and unquestionably the leader of the world in science and technology. This comes as no surprise to those of us who have watched and tried to warn against the steady deterioration in the teaching of science and mathematics in the schools for the past quarter century. It comes as no surprise to those who have known of dozens of cases of scientists who have been hounded out of jobs by silly disloyalty charges, and kept out of all professional employment by widespread blacklisting practices.

  Edward Condon

  Jobs, Silly, Teaching

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• The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads" "Wisdom begins in wonder.

  Socrates

  Running, Spiritual, Heart

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• Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce individuality of passion with the dulling universal certainty of platitude.

  Mark Doty

  Inspirational, Pain, Passion

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• If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ........... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Real, Gun, Enough

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• As in creating some significant work the artist first experiences something akin to dream awareness that becomes clarified in the creative process itself, so we must first have a vision of the future sufficiently entrancing that it will sustain us in the transformation of the human project that is now in process.

  Thomas Berry

  Dream, Future, Artist

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.10, Crown

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• Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in error, that we have allowed ourselves to be taken in by individuals, by objects, have dreamt up an affinity with them which immediately vanishes before our waking eye; and yet we cannot tear ourselves away, held fast by some power that seems incomprehensible to us. Sometimes, however, we become fully aware and realize that error as well as truth can move and spur us on to action.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Moving, Taken

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• There seems to be an increasing awareness of something we Americans have known for some time - that the ten most dangerous words in the English language are "Hi, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Helping, Language

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1991). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Morning, Dawn

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.

  Michael Parenti

  Class, Generosity, Important

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