“Someone has said,"Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one's ignorance."..No one has a corner on wisdom. All the name-dropping in the world does not heighten the significance of our character. If anything, it reduces it. Our acute need is to cultivate a willingness to learn and to remain teachable.” IfsWorldNeedsDoeSaidCharacterNamesAwarenessIgnoranceConsciousCornersUnconsciousSignificanceWillingnessDroppingConscious AwarenessTeachableWillingness To LearnName Dropping Book:Esther: A Woman of Strength and Dignity Source: Esther: A Woman of Strength and Dignity
“Esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, said good old Berkeley; but, according to most philosophers, he was wrong. Yet, obviously, there are things for which the adage holds. Perception, trivially, to begin with. If elements of conscious awareness--pains, tickles, feelings of heat and cold, sensory qualia of colors, sounds, and the like--have any existence, it must consist in their being perceived by a subject.... This shows, of course, that such experiences are epiphenomenal, at least with respect to the physical world.” IfsWorldSaidShowsFeelingsPainCoursesSoundExistenceSubjectsAwarenessColorColdElementsPerceptionConsciousPhilosopherHeatAdagesSensoryConscious AwarenessBerkeleyHeat And Cold Author:Zeno Vendler
“She [my mother] said, "You are fiercely protective of your inventions because you are your fans." She helped me understand my own feelings. When someone has pulled the wool over my eyes, I feel that they have pulled the wool over the eyes of millions of fans around the world. She helped me to forgive. You can't force people to have the same world consciousness and awareness as you do.” PeopleWorldFeelsSaidFeelingsEyeForceMy OwnConsciousnessMillionsFansAwarenessMomForgivingMy MomInventionAround The WorldProtectiveWool Author:Lady Gaga
“I tell young girls, "The world is going to exploit and manipulate your sexuality. If you benefit from that financially, then you are part of the problem." That said, I thought all those parents flipping out over the Video Music Awards were ridiculous - women have been twerking in clubs for 20, 30 years. There's a real lack of awareness about what's going on across many layers of our culture.” IfsWorldYearsHas BeensSaidRealProblemYoungCultureGirlParentAwarenessBenefitsClubsSexualityRidiculousVideoAwardsLayersManipulateExploitsTwerkingFlipping Out Author:Rosalind Wiseman
“Is Guinea prepared? And that's the question because of course these three countries had very, very weak health institutions. Many people had said that there was denial in Guinea, that many people in Guinea either said that Ebola did not exist or were hostile to any sort of Ebola health and safety awareness - how to deal with it.” PeopleSaidCountryThreeCoursesDealsAwarenessWeakSafetyInstitutionsPreparedDenialHostileGuineaEbolaHealth And Safety Author:Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
“To me that really would be the essence of kindness, to have one's awareness so developed and refined that you could tell just what was needed, and not do any more or any less, and maybe not even be aware of what you had done, except it would be a helpful thing because of how fully present you were. Well, as Aerosmith once famously said: Dream on.” WellsSaidDoneDreamWould BeKindnessAwarenessNeededEssenceHelpfulRefinedAerosmith Author:George Saunders
“We became more familiar with [Bernard Leach], and with this familiarity came, I wouldn't say contempt, but certainly an awareness that everything that he said was not necessarily what we were thinking. That doesn't mean it was wrong, but Leach was a person out of a different generation.” ThinkingMeanPersonsSaidDifferentGenerationsAwarenessFamiliarContemptFamiliarityDifferent Generations Author:Warren MacKenzie
“I saw a sign one time that said 'hemorrhoids awareness week' at the doctor's office. Let me tell you, if you got hemorrhoids, I'm sure you are aware of it. You don't need a sign to tell anybody about it.” IfsNeedsSaidSawsWeekAwarenessOfficeDoctorsLet MeOne TimeHemorrhoids Author:Larry the Cable Guy
“The Samaritan woman grasped what He said with fervor that came from an awareness of her real need. The transaction was fascinating. She has come with a buket. He sent her back with a spring of living water. She had come as a reject. He sent her back being accepted by God Himself. She came wounded. He sent her back whole. She came laden with questions. He sent her back as a source for answers. She came living a life of quiet desperation. She ran back overflowing with hope. The disciples missed it all. It was lunchtime for them.” NeedsSaidRealWholeWaterAnswersAwarenessSourceQuietSpringAcceptedRanFascinatingRejectsWoundedDiscipleDesperationTransactionsFervorBeing AcceptedSamaritansLunchtimeQuiet Desperation Author:Ravi Zacharias
“I shrugged. “I guess that guys who’d never do something like that have a hard time believing some other guy would,” I said, but I could see her point. Awareness and apologies were fine and good, but they could come too late.” BelieveSaidHardGuyAwarenessFineLateHard TimesToo LateApologyThat GuyOther Guys Author:Tammara Webber
“Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human. As I said in my BBC Reith Lectures, “Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don’t feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence” WantFeelsHumansSaidSelfBodyForeverAwarenessAngelSelf AwarenessBeastTraitsTrappedCravingTranscendenceLectures Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
“Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.” LifeSaidConsciousnessSunAwarenessSun RiseWithering Author:Joseph Wood Krutch