Awareness Quotes

"Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired."

- Michel Tournier

"Hear no evil, see no evil, and speak no evil—and you’ll never get a job working for a tabloid."

- Phil Pastoret

"People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up."

- Ogden Nash

""The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.""

- Terry Pratchett

""A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.""

- Frank Zappa

"I can’t believe it’s Monday again. It feels like it was just Monday yesterday."

- Andy Bernard, The Office

"Even the calendar says WTF after Monday and Tuesday."

- Taylor Hanson

"The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you’re on the job."

- Slappy White

"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it."

- Franklin P. Jones

"He has the attention span of a hummingbird."

- Christopher Moore

"She spoke quickly, her tongue feeling like a hummingbird’s wing; she was so afraid of boring him if she took too long."

- Shannon Hale

"He wasn't that good looking, he had the social skills of a wet cat and the patience of a caffeinated hummingbird."

- Karen Chance

"The earth is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."

- W.B. Yeats

"I hear like you see – like that hummingbird outside that window for instance."

- Ray Charles

"There is a difference between our wisdom and nature's simplicity. That reflects the burden of a complex intelligence. A complex intelligence like ours is impotent compared to the intelligence of a monarch butterfly migrating from Canada to Mexico, or the intelligence of hummingbirds that have co-evolved with the flowers all along their migration route. That seems so simple; it just happens, it just unfolds."

- Alison Hawthorne Deming

"Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women’s rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what’s going on in Africa – it stops us from thinking in general."

- P!NK

"I've always felt that animals are the purest spirits in the world. They don't fake or hide their feelings, and they are the most loyal creatures on Earth. And somehow we humans think we're smarter-what a joke."

- Pink

"Pink seems to me the essentially false and negative colour; because it is the dilution of something that is rich and glowing…. pink suggests nothing but the horrible and blasphemous idea of wine with too much water in it…. the fading of the fire; pink is mere anæmia in the blood of the universe."

- G. K. Chesterton

"Aging is not about losing beauty but gaining a deeper appreciation for it."

- Eva Longoria

"There’s no such thing as aging, but maturing and knowledge. It’s beautiful, I call that beauty."

- Céline Dion

"Leopards, that is ordinary forest leopards, do not like rain and invariably seek shelter, but the man eater was not an ordinary leopard, and there was no knowing what his likes or dislikes were, or what he might or might not do."

- Jim Corbett

"But I was just really blown away that you could just buy a snow leopard. For me, it was like buying a panda bear or a Komodo dragon."

- Eric Goode

"I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can’t find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out."

- Celia Cruz

"Hummingbirds remind us that life’s beauty is in the details."

"Neither the hummingbird nor the flower wonders how beautiful it is."

- Unknown

"Find the hummingbird in every experience and you’ll discover the magic hidden within"

"Every flower whispers secrets to the visiting hummingbirds"

"Browse the garden of opportunities with a hummingbird’s keen eye"

"They remind us that every moment is rich with possibilities"

"Hummingbirds are tiny miracles that remind us of the extraordinary beauty that exists in the smallest of things."