“I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.” ThinkingRealSelfInterestingQualityAwarenessConsciousProseTragicSelf ConsciousConscious Awareness Author:China Mieville
“Again, when we view a scene fleetingly, do we consciously see all the details even though we don't retain them, or do we not see them in the first place? Neurological information is crucial to deciding these questions. After all, they are so interesting precisely because unaided introspection cannot resolve them. Rather we need to know what is going on in the brain activities that constitute visual awareness.” KnowsNeedsFirstsInterestingViewsBrainAwarenessInformationSceneActivityDetailsVisualsResolveCrucialIntrospection Author:David Papineau
“Miss Havisham is a glitch in the smooth functioning of the Patriarchy, enforcing awareness of a moment of social disaster and personal shame, something it seems she would want us to forget (but no one would forget). (Maybe an interesting "discussion question" for readers of Complicated Grief might be, "What do Terry Barton and Miss Havisham have in common?"?)” WantMomentsSeemsMightSocialForgetInterestingCommonGriefAwarenessMissingReaderShameComplicatedDisasterDiscussionSmoothPatriarchyWant UGlitchesHavishamMiss HavishamComplicated Grief Author:Laura Mullen
“It's interesting that in those countries like Taiwan or Korea, where nuns are given equal opportunities for study and practice, they also develop great social awareness.” CountryOpportunityGivenSocialInterestingPracticeStudyAwarenessEqualKoreaNunEqual OpportunityTaiwanSocial Awareness Author:Tenzin Palmo
“It takes awareness that it's not only not a bad thing to let others do things their own way, it is in fact an improvement. It makes life richer and more interesting.” WayFactsInterestingAwarenessImprovementBad Things Author:Carolyn Hax
“My experiences growing up - my father lived in New York, so I was going out there in the summers and meeting really interesting people and people having what seemed to me to be extraordinary experiences and really taking advantage of these wonderful opportunities. And so I will go - I would go to the big city and watch these people performing onstage and doing television and films. And then I would go back to Hayward, and it just suddenly felt that much smaller and sort of limiting because I had this hyper awareness of how much larger the world was.” PeopleWorldBigsFilmFatherOpportunityFeltInterestingCitiesWatchesGrowing UpGrowingWonderfulAwarenessNew YorkTelevisionSummerAdvantageMeetingsExtraordinaryPerformingGoing OutReally InterestingHyperBig CitiesTaking Advantage Author:Mahershala Ali
“I read a lot by female psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé, who wrote prominent biographies of Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud because she studied with all of them. She had this unbelievable insight into contemporary psychoanalysis. What is so interesting is that she wrote her life, and she knew that her life would be about these men, and it didn't stop her from leading an incredibly successful academic career. But her strange self-awareness that she was going to bookmark these men's lives is really interesting to me.” MenSelfWould BeLife IsInterestingCareersSuccessfulAwarenessStrangeFemaleSelf AwarenessInsightContemporaryAcademicBiographiesUnbelievablePsychoanalysisReally InterestingProminentAndreaBookmarks Author:Laura Marling
“Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware.” PersonsInterestingAwarenessBoundsBelongingInteresting ThingsExamining Author:Daniel Handler
“A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.” IfsWayShouldHumansHuman BeingsInterestingAwarenessTrustOughtContactOver YouExpress YourselfTrust YourselfTrust Others Author:Barbra Streisand