Quotes about Awareness

The right information brings knowledge. And knowledge is power. Sharing it is empowerment.

Response is always better than reaction.

Let's define dumb as being different from stupid. Dumb means you don't know what you're supposed to know. Stupid means you know it but make bad choices. […] Dumb used to be a by-product of lack of access, bad teachers, or poor parenting. Today, dumb is a choice, one that's made by individuals who choose not to learn. If you don't know what you need to know, that's fixable. But first you have to want to fix it.

Here's another way to describe the two axes: One asks, Can you see it? The other wonders, Do you care?

Empathy is at the heart of marketing People don't believe what you believe. They don't know what you know. They don't want what you want. It's true, but we'd rather not accept this. Sonder is defined as that moment when you realize that everyone around you has an internal life as rich and as conflicted as yours. Everyone has noise in their heads.

All effective education creates tension, because just before you learn something, you're aware you don't know it (yet).

My friend didn't understand what it means to be in the world, to be present and aware.

A life without attachment and stress can give you the freedom to see things as they are and call them as you see them.

The difference between backing off and doing nothing may appear subtle, but it's not. A leader who backs off is making a commitment to the power of the tribe, and is alert to the right moment to step back in. Someone who is doing nothing is merely hiding. Leadership is a choice. It's the choice to not do nothing. Lean in, back off, but don't do nothing.

It is much more difficult to deal with the truth about your life when you have no idea that you have feet of clay and it suddenly begins to rain.

Many of the judgments we make of one another—judgments that cause great pain—are preventable, because they are based on misunderstanding

My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you" (Job 42:5).