“There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.” IfsYearsMomentsFeelingsUsedRoomsTeacherConsciousYears AgoShoesPhrasesOld ManProfessorsMentorUsing MeEerieMouthpieceTrotting Author:Abraham Verghese
“I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.” MenRoomsSilenceHe ManConsciousMen And WomenBreatheBreathing Book:Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years Source: Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years
“The ubiquitous and acutely conscious presence of our adolescents is a major problem, especially since much of their consciousnessseems to be focused on sexuality--ours and theirs. They expect us to ignore them if they are kissing their dates in the family room; but let us so much as wink at one another, and they whistle loudly.” IfsProblemSexRoomsKissingMajorsConsciousSexualityFocusedMajor Problems Author:Augustus Napier
“When you present something that you have worked on to somebody else, for some reason that is the moment when you can see everything that you have done wrong. They may or may not agree, but it is more of a personal thing for me. It is that I am looking at it because you are self conscious and suddenly there is someone in the room that is seeing it for the first time.” FirstsMaySelfReasonDoneMomentsRoomsSeeingConsciousFirst TimeAgreeSelf ConsciousPersonal Things Author:Michael Giacchino