Awareness Quotes

"Curiosity is the most important skill an entrepreneur can have. No matter where you are in a business you have to constantly challenge your assumptions and ask questions of your customers, your team, your partners, and most importantly yourself. Question your wins, losses, and everything in between."

- Joe Conyers

"How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?"

- Jane Swan

"My mother gave me one piece of advice that stuck with me. She said don't forget where you came from."

- Eva Longoria

"Hunting reminds us that we are part of something bigger than ourselves – the vast and interconnected web of life on Earth."

- Steven Rinella

"If you want to think about it less, think about it more."

- Fred Penzel

"Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or hope that there's anywhere to hide."

- Pema Chodron

"The issue is not that you get symptoms it's what you do with the symptoms that you get."

- Fred Penzel

"My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened."

- Michel de Montaigne

"Compulsions are a lousy solution to the problem of having obsessions."

- Fred Penzel

"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them."

- Titus Livius

"The basic principle behind behavioral therapy for OCD is that you cannot be bored and scared at the same time."

- Fred Penzel

"People with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity."

- David Adam

"Imagine all your worst thoughts as a soundtrack running through your mind 24/7, day after day."

- Adam Walker Cleveland

"OCD is not how it’s stereotyped… it made me feel like my mind was playing a cruel trick on me…"

- Camila Cabello

"OCD is like having a bully stuck inside your head and nobody else can see it."

- Krissy McDermott

"You lose time. You lose entire blocks of your day to obsessive thoughts or actions."

- Kelly Hill

"It’s like being controlled by a puppeteer. Every time you try and just walk away he pulls you back."

- Toni Neville

"A physical sensation crawls up my arm as I avoid compulsions. But if I complete it, the world resets itself for a moment like everything will be just fine. But only for a moment."

- Mardy M. Berlinger

"For me, it’s like someone else has control of your brain. Like you’re being forced to do an endless number of completely random, pointless tasks you don’t want to do."

- Clarissa Chay

"It’s like a broken machine. Thoughts go in your head, get stuck and keep going around and around."

- Megan Flynn

"It can look like still waters on the outside while a hurricane is swirling in your mind."

- Marcie Barber Phares

"There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot."

- Steven Wright

"Fishing is not an escape from life, but often a deeper immersion into it."

- Harry Middleton

"In fishing, as in life, opportunity is often a matter of being in the right place at the right time."

- Larry Koller

"Fishing is not just about catching fish; it's about understanding the delicate balance of nature."

- Aldo Leopold

"You can observe a lot just by watching."

- Yogi Berra

"You're my first thought in the morning and my last thought at night."

"You're always in my thought bubble."

"Nature teaches us humility and strength in the quiet moments of the hunt."

- Anonymous

"Behind my compulsions lies a deep well of anxiety, but I am learning to navigate its depths."