Conscious Quotes

The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.

I was self-conscious of what I would call my "tree-trunk legs" because they are very muscular... but now I've learned to love them.

Dont you think dreams and the Internet are similar? They are both areas where the repressed conscious mind vents.

Take complete control over the messages you allow into your conscious mind.

No art comes from the conscious mind.

Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will?

No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.

Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth [gems] of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession.

Success means participating fully in the conscious evolution of humanity, contributing to the shift in time to avoid the chaos and disasters foreseen.

My mission is to tell the story of the birth of ourselves as a universal humanity, awakening all of us to our unique opportunity to participate through our own conscious evolution.

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to widdle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious.

There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.

It was weird to be in a movie that's very clearly a period piece like Killing Reagan, but that's about a time that's within my own memory. That's really weird. And conscious memory, not just vague.

We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.

Stay conscious and alive, day in and day out.

If we can just be brave enough to be each others mirror, we may finally recognize the face of conscious that we fear.

Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being true kitsch, which always strives to please.

If you know that someone is going to hear what you're doing, you're always going to be self-conscious about it. In a way that's good; it spurs you on.

...the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy.

To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey.

The devil comes and soon my subconscious and conscious might start to brawl. As this cunning demon takes me as its voodoo doll.

I am fully conscious that a complete presentation of the regions visited is a task beyond my power. All I can strive to do is convey an illusion-my own illusion

I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.

Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction is made between who we are and what we perceive.

We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.

I've subsequently become conscious of MAKING MEMORIES. Which makes me sound like a scrapbooker.

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.

Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.

I'm one of those people who sees Frank Zappa in a cup of coffee, or elephants wrestling in clouds. But also, conscious creation of all kinds moves me.

I like to do the pictures before people get too self-conscious. I like to be spontaneous and get a shot before the subject thinks too much about it.

The unconscious mind is way bigger than the conscious mind. Using tools to access its wisdom and self-organizing features is powerful medicine.

I drink a few beers, and I've smoked a little pot. But I'm too health conscious to do it regularly. I run a lot. I don't smoke cigarettes. Pot is the hardest thing I've tried, really.

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

I get invited to a lot more glamorous parties since Ive been in Downton Abbey, which has made me much more fashion conscious.

Recycling isn't going to save the world, but being conscious of it and your surroundings can.

Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.

I notice if I'm too fat or if I'm too ugly or there's skin hanging or whatever. When my clothes start not fitting, I get really self-conscious about what I eat.

There is no conscious choice of heterosexual identity any more than there is a homosexual one. The last person in the world who wants to be homosexual, for the most part, are homosexuals.

The holy trinity, the holy triad is a construction which is found in every aspect of life. Whether it is body, mind and spirit, or whether it is conscious, subconscious and superconscious.

I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.

We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

The subconscious is ahead of the conscious, and we never know what really drives us.

This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.

Intuition is the conscious experience - in pure spirit - of a purely spiritual content.

Knowing that conscious decisions and personal memory are much too small a place to live, every human being streams at night into the loving nowhere, or during the day, in some absorbing work.

The day is conscious of itself.

But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.

In taking the everyday details of life for granted, we fail to appreciate the extraordinary fact that we are conscious at all.