I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.
The result of mindful awareness is the development of our virtues, which are the basic positive building blocks of our life.
A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.
Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.
The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I'm not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.
all day long, one storm then another—and I take your hands like gentle flowers that blossom into awareness
I grew up in Africa surrounded by a lot of culture. It's made me aware that the world is a big place.
I'm challenging everybody on every side of every divide to be more who they are, to cultivate their capacity for awareness.
Tumblr culture and the whole reappropriation-without-context thing are a double-edged sword in that they both raise awareness of my work and also kind of devalue it at the same time.
In moments of transcendence, when time stands still, your biological clock will stop. The spirit is that domain of our awareness where there is no time.
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
I usually don't say anything to the actors. It works better for me because when they come to the set, they are at the same time scared and excited because they are not well aware of what will happen.
Christopher Gardner: There's no salary? Jay Twistle: No. Christopher Gardner: I was not aware of that. My circumstances have changed some.
Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.
Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are of what we know not.
No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.
I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.
Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.
I'm aware that the World Cup is probably the greatest spectacle in the world of sport, and that's despite the referees that have been found to have fixed games specifically.
Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.
