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There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen. -- Edward Zwick
Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness. -- Jim Rohn
To be proven wrong should be celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding, furthering awareness. -- Peter Joseph
You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience and understanding of America was shaped by having immigrant parents. -- Dinaw Mengestu
The idea that a robot will become more aware of its environment, that telling it to 'go to the kitchen' means something - navigation and understanding of the environment is a robot problem. Those are the technological frontiers of the robotics industry. -- Colin Angle
The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there's programming going on. It's as simple as understanding the commercials are there to help sell things. And that TV shows are there to sell commercials, and so on. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Belief comes spontaneously as well as by effort. Belief is power. An insincere and uninspired seeker is aware of the truth that belief is power, but he cannot go beyond understanding or awareness; whereas a sincere, genuine, devoted and surrendered seeker knows that belief is dynamic power, and he has this power as his very own. -- Sri Chinmoy
There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness; we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all? -- Jeffrey Kluger
Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding. -- Nhat Hanh
Understanding who you are is critical for your career advancement. Self-awareness helps you get ahead. -- Bonnie Marcus
Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does. -- Roger Penrose
I got very interested in attention and awareness and how to achieve certain states through understanding this. -- Pauline Oliveros
Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion -- Bruce Lee
It is the understanding of others and the awareness of their needs, that the ambassador of CHRIST should strive to cultivate -- Larry Crabb
If the tonal predominates, which we see now more in the world, there's no mystery - understanding of consciousness or awareness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration. -- Nhat Hanh
In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Sexuality is possible without any understanding, without any meditation. Love is possible only with understanding. Compassion is possible only with understanding and meditation, understanding and awareness. -- Rajneesh
Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment. -- Susan Sontag
Patience is not a natural gift of a leader, it is a learned one. The more you broaden your awareness, understanding, and compassion, the better results you will get out of your people. -- -Shandel Slaten

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