Awareness Quotes

"We’re in a giant car heading toward a brick wall and everyone’s arguing over where they’re going to sit."

- David Suzuki

"Most people are on the world, not in it – having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them."

- John Muir

"The major problems in the world are the result of the differences between the way nature works and the way people think."

- Gregory Bateson

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe."

- John Muir

"How sad to think that nature speaks and mankind doesn’t listen."

- Victor Hugo

"Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that."

- Sylvia Earle

"Our main enemy right now is not our political opponents. Our main enemy is physics. And we cannot make “deals” with physics."

- Greta Thunberg

"I used to think the top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought with 30 years of good science we could address those problems. But I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy … And to deal with those we need a spiritual and cultural transformation. We scientists don’t know how to do that."

- Gus Speth

"It's only one straw,' said 8 billion people."

- Anon

"An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfilment."

- David Attenborough

"In the hood, you quickly learn that silence speaks volumes, and eyes tell tales words can’t."

- The Game

"Every corner has its stories; you just need to listen."

- Ice Cube

"Don’t expect to see positive change when you surround yourself with negative people."

- Nas

"Keep your head on a swivel, always watch your back."

- 50 Cent

"Real eyes realize real lies."

- Tupac Shakur

"In the hood, silence is the language spoken by those who understand the code."

- Nipsey Hussle

"ADHD is not a disability, it's a different ability."

- Edward M. Hallowell

"ADHD isn't a bad thing, it's a different way of thinking."

- David Neeleman

"A person with ADHD has the power of a Ferrari engine but with bicycle-strength brakes. It’s the mismatch of engine power to braking capability that causes the problems. Strengthening one’s brakes is the name of the game."

- Edward M. Hallowell

"It helps to think of ADHD as a complex set of contradictory or paradoxical tendencies: a lack of focus combined with an ability to superfocus; a lack of direction combined with highly directed entrepreneurialism; a tendency to procrastinate combined with a knack for getting a week’s worth of work done in two hours; impulsive, wrongheaded decision making combined with inventive, out-of-the-blue problem solving; interpersonal cluelessness combined with uncanny intuition and empathy; the list goes on."

- Edward M. Hallowell

"Anyone who exhibits the classic symptoms of ADHD will have difficulty with all or most of the seven core executive functions."

- Russell Barkley, Ph.D.

"The DSM … defines attention deficit disorder by its external features, not by its emotional meaning in the lives of individual human beings."

- Gabor Maté

"ADHD is, to summarize it in a single phrase, time blindness… People with ADHD cannot deal with time; and that includes: looking back, to look ahead to get ready for what’s coming at you. (…) The now is more compelling than the information you’re holding in mind."

- Russell Barkley, Ph.D.

"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get."

- Forrest Gump

"The ADHD brain is like a Ferrari engine with bicycle brakes."

"ADHD is a difference in cognition, not a disorder."

"ADHD is not a deficit of attention, but a wandering of attention to the most interesting nearby stimulus."

"'ADHD' is a term that describes a way of being in the world. It is neither entirely a disorder nor entirely an asset. It is an array of traits specific to a unique kind of mind. It can become a distinct advantage or an abiding curse, depending on how a person manages it."

"Your ADHD brain is full of energy, and impulsivity is just part of how you explore the world differently."

"ADHD may involve different speeds of information processing and choice-making."