Awareness Quotes

"The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."

- Elie Wiesel

"There are millions of homeless people in the world because humanity does not have a proper conscience!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

""Having a daughter makes you see things in a different light… Through her eyes, through her thoughts, and through her dreams… You finally get what human being is all about.""

- Jodi Picoult

"The important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love."

- Pico Iyer

"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work."

- Mary Oliver

"A writer is someone who pays attention to the world — a writer is a professional observer."

- Susan Sontag

"Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world."

- Susan Sontag

"The most important things in life aren’t things"

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

"People trust what they see over what they hear."

- Travis Bradberry

"I knew exactly what to do. but, in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do."

- Michael Scott

"Organizational culture is not what’s written down. It’s the way things are done."

- Herb Kelleher

"If you do not intentionally include, you unintentionally exclude."

- Nellie Borrero

"Addiction, at its worst, is akin to having Stockholm Syndrome. You're like a hostage who has developed an irrational affection for your captor. They can abuse you, torture you, even threaten to kill you, and you'll remain inexplicably and disturbingly loyal."

- Anne Clendening

"Human resources are like natural resources; they’re often buried deep. You have to go looking for them; they’re not just lying around on the surface."

- Ken Robinson

"Rehab isn’t what finally got me sober. It was nearly losing everything and finally seeing that whatever benefit I thought alcohol gave me was outweighed by what it would cost me… ‘You’re removing the capacity to be present, not just in the bad moments.’ You’re numbing the good feelings. You’re numbing everything. It’s profoundly selfish."

- Elizabeth Vargas

"I don’t just hear music. I see it. I taste it. I feel it"

- Jodi Picoult

"Nobody notices, only you've known, you're not sick, not crazy, not angry, not sad-- It's just this, you're injured."

- Claudia Rankine

"Flowers don’t tell, they show."

- Stephanie Skeem

"One person's weed is another person's wildflower."

- Susan Wittig Albert

"[The movies] glamorize game day a little bit too much. It's such a focus. They miss a lot of the nuts and bolts, and the time that goes into the preparation each week, or each couple of days in basketball."

- Vince Kehres

"My overall knowledge of football specifications, the overall process that happens on game day with the footballs is very limited. I would say that during the course of the game, I honestly never - it probably has happened on an incomplete pass or something - but I've never touched a game ball. It's not something I have any familiarity with on that."

- Bill Belichick

"I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex."

- Katharine Hepburn

"You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot—it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive."

- Maya Angelou

"Our most valuable resource is preschoolers."

- Herbert Hoover

"If you close your eyes, you’ll miss the best things."

- Dr. Seuss

"Childcare is an invisible part of the economy."

- Madeleine M. Kunin

"Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory."

- Halle Berry

"We live in a world that has always been biologically and culturally sex/gender diverse. Rise up and celebrate this birthright."

- Jenn Burleton

"Preschool rarely misquote. In fact, they usually repeat what you shouldn’t have said word for word."

""Everyone has beauty, but not everyone sees it.""