Heightened Awareness Quotes

#1. Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions.

Claude Steiner

#2. Over and over, since I was very young, I see things that are about to happen. You can call it heightened intuition; you can call it visions ... I see it as a gift. It's my role to give people a heightened awareness, to show that basically we can change the world.

Shari Arison

#3. I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of heightened awareness. And it's that awareness of really looking at the everyday world with clear and focused attention that I'm interested in.

Stephen Shore

#4. Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipping around the house, marvelous elation. It's as though I could fly.

Anne Sexton

#5. I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

Edna O'Brien

#6. Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.

Aberjhani

#7. When you get to be my age, you gain a heightened awareness of time . . . how limited it is, and you tend to move toward social interactions that are meaningful and away from negative, trivial people who are downright toxic.

Sarah Jo Smith

#8. Heightened awareness is a mystery only for a reason.

Carlos Castaneda

#9. The Warrior lives a life full of adventure, living on the edge of opportunity. Life on the edge keeps him in a space of heightened awareness and totally in the moment; therefore no matter what comes his way he is always prepared.

James Arthur Ray

#10. Acting is a creative process, and directing and music. I think creative people - and I take myself as a creative person and it doesn't mean you have to be an actor, a musician, or a painter - but I think if you are in a creative profession or a creative business you do have a heightened awareness.

Anthony Hopkins

#11. To successfully open the door to heightened awareness, we must open it inward.

Wayne Dyer

#12. Heightened awareness often gives the illusion that a problem is lessening. This is most often not the case. It may mean simply that a problem has become so widespread it can no longer remain hidden or be ignored.

Bell Hooks

#13. Nobody ever flunked a science museum

Frank Oppenheimer

#14. The simple act of having a camera, not a cell phone, but a camera-camera, there's a kind of a heightened perceptional awareness that occurs. Like, I could walk from here to the highway in two minutes, but if I had a camera, that walk could take me two hours.

Jerry N. Uelsmann

#15. A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.

John D. Rockefeller

#16. Bloodthirsty fanatics who regarded all Western inventions and practices as works of the devil, they saw themselves as divinely appointed to purify the region by slaughtering all who allied with foreigners or deviated from their narrow vision of Islam.

Joby Warrick

#17. A doctor to whom I occasionally talk suggest that I have made an inadequate adjustment to aging.
Wrong, I want to say.
In fact I have made no adjustment whatsoever to aging.
In fact I had lived my entire life to date without seriously believing that I would age.

Joan Didion

#18. We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Arianna Huffington

#19. Paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness

John Lennon

#20. By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.

Rollo May

#21. For sure I would be a very emotional captain. A very hands-on captain.

Payne Stewart

#22. Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

Alfred North Whitehead

#23. Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom.

Flannery O'Connor

#24. It really lasted the whole game, because I was really untouchable, unstoppable that game. But it was heightened on one particular play, and that was the longest run where everything completely slowed down. My awareness was so keen, it was so heightened, it was really amazing.

Marcus Allen

#25. A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow.

Mary Cholmondeley

#26. It made a big difference in my life to grow up with a dad who wasn't afraid of how great my mom was.

Steve Maraboli

#27. There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

Charles Baudelaire

#28. Paranoia is just a heightened state of awareness. I didn't say it, but I repeat it often enough.

Gerald Everett Jones

#29. I do love being onstage. And I've always loved playing a character and being watched doing that.

Cecile McLorin Salvant

#30. The rich-soil part, the mystery beneath all those reasons, is that I love it. There is an awareness, an addictive alertness, a super-heightened sensitivity that approaches and then becomes a kind of spirituality.

Rick Bass

#31. A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.

Harry Browne

#32. And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.

Pico Iyer

#33. Fantastic truths perish slower ... Sappho's moon will survive the moon of Armstrong. Different computations are necessary.

Odysseas Elytis

#34. What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.

Anais Nin

#35. Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.

Rollo May

#36. The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits of Jack Daniels.

Steven Tyler

#37. The point of reading is not reading but living. Reading helps you live with greater appreciation, keener insight and heightened emotional awareness.

Steve Leveen