Awareness Quotes

"If you want to know your past, look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future, look into your present actions."

- Chinese Proverb

"No one knows enough to worry."

- Terence McKenna

"If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden"

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

"“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – – deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth – – persistent, persuasive, unrealistic.”"

- John F. Kennedy

"“Ignorance of the law excuses no man, not that all men know the law, but ’tis an excuse every man will plead and no man can tell how to confute him.”"

- John Selden

"“Lawyers with a weakness for seeing the merits of the other side end up being employed by neither.”"

- Richard J. Barnet

"“A grand jury would ‘indict a ham sandwich,’ if that’s what you wanted.”"

- Tom Wolfe (quoting Sol Wachtler)

"“Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.”"

- Harry S. Truman

"It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers."

- Charles Dickens

"Look well to the right of you, look well to the left of you, for one of you three won’t be here next year."

- Edward H. Warren

"The jury system has come to stand for all that is best about the American system of justice; and all that is worst."

- John Grisham

"Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else; it is to say that that person is superior in some sense."

- Criss Jami

"No one is as dumb as all of us together"

- SadMacaroon9897

"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth."

- Albert Einstein

"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."

- Albert Einstein

"Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."

- Albert Einstein

"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."

- Albert Einstein

"I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them."

- Suzanne Collins

"All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything."

- George Washington Carver

"If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you."

- George Washington Carver

"At the end of the day it’s not a weight contest, it’s a visual contest. And it doesn’t matter what you say you weigh, if you don’t look that big then you don’t look that big."

- Dorian Yates

"A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B."

- Fats Domino

"Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?"

- J. Paul Getty

"The taxpayer—that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."

- Ronald Reagan

"It’s a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleges and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children."

- Alan Alda

"I used to work at McDonald’s making minimum wage. You know what that means? You know what your boss was trying to say? It’s like, 'Hey if I could pay you less, I would, but it’s against the law.'"

- Chris Rock

"If you had to identify in one word the reason why the human race has not achieved and never will achieve its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'"

- Dave Barry

"If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work."

- Woody Allen

"Life is so much brighter when we focus on what truly matters ..."

"Sometimes I spend the whole meeting wondering how they got the big meeting table through the door."

- Anonymous