Jodi Picoult Quotes

I think there's a knowingness in my face.

Failure to recognize the obvious is not a good characteristic of a leader.

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.

I didn’t know I could do that. I mean I knew I could do that before, but I didn’t know it was actually working now until you screamed. I thought I was just imagining it. And don’t give me that look…sorry? (Xypher)

I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

People tell you who they are. There are big neon signs going off. 'Pay attention! This is who I am.' And most of us put out hands a little bit over our eyes. We don't see that.

It's important you don't lose touch with reality because, well, reality's the only thing you've got, really.

When I open my mouth and talk, sometimes people say they are amazed of my intellect. I don't know if that's because I truly speak in a way that people can understand or feel a certain way, or because they don't expect it. I don't know. That's something I am curious about.

I've always been blessed, or cursed, with perception.

To know is not less than to feel.

Love springs from awareness.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

If I use the word consciousness, in our lab, in our institute, what we mean is the special quality of mind, the special features that exist in the mind, that permit us to know, for example, that we, ourselves, exist, and that things exist around us.

We're a feeling, an awareness encased here

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

You cannot be known Better than I know you.

I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean.

Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.

Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.