Conscious Quotes

I take conscious breaks for myself 'cause I like to rejuvenate and get my creative juices flowing. I also like to take my time with my creativity; I think it's important.

Higher states of awareness is a by product of mental development and conscious evolution.

Conscious evolution means having the desire to evolve.

Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.

All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.

It may look like things have gotten better, because everyone is semi-being appreciative. Not appreciative, but conscious of people being gender fluid and all those things.

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.

One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.

No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.

From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or doing something silly.

I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s] & holes as sound parts.

"I fear your kind and open communication, which has rendered me more painfully conscious of my own defects, has not improved me," sighed Kate.

No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.

I liked his voice, rich and unself-conscious even when he forgot words and hummed to fill in the gap. What I didn't understand, I imagined, and thus it became a love song.

I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.

I've always been conscious of the fact that there aren't enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish people who live there.

Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.

If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.

If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.

I have to be conscious of what I'm sayin' because people are gonna come at me about this sh*t.

His body and his mind went about their different businesses. The former, freed from conscious instruction, breathed, rolled, sweated, and digested. The latter went dreaming.

The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.

There's not a woman in the world who hasn't felt self-conscious about something! We as women all experience it but we never talk about it.

My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or just not giving a sh-t to write something you know people are going to criticize.

I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit slack. But, I am weight-conscious, so I concentrate on avoiding junk food.

My first song was about the smog over Dublin in the 1980s, so yeah, I suppose I was always socially conscious. My first song was not a love song, it was about smog.

I'm not that conscious of my writing, so pacing the lyrics doesn't really enter the picture.

In my life as a wife and mother, I'm always conscious of my desire to be present.

I made a conscious effort to make a record that would affect people in a good way rather than the last one, which affected people in a bad way.

Become very conscious of every choice you make today so you can begin to make smarter choices moving forward.

I'm from a very politically and socially conscious family. My mother always made a point of making us look at what was going on around us and take stock of our part in it.

The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level.

Knowing yourself now requires the understanding that the conscious you occupies only a small room in the mansion of the brain, and that it has little control over the reality constructed for you.

The first thing we learn from studying our own circuitry is a simple lesson: most of what we do and think and feel is not under our conscious control.

Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.

I would never complain about One Day taking off but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.

I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious.

I don't mean I give the same intensity to everything I do - if I did that, I'd be dead, but I'm very conscious, I make notes, and I have a fairly good idea of what's happening in my life.

I think I was like [a game of] skittles, knocked apart by this wooden ball, and there's a strength to that: you're not too self-conscious about what you're doing, so you're not too worried about it.

The best way to prepare for any moment in the future is to be fully conscious in the present.

Being more aware creates responsibility. What does responsibility mean? It means the ability to respond. The more conscious you are in your ability to respond, the more creative you'll be.

Eat only when you feel hungry. Notice and feel your hunger. This is conscious eating.

No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious.

When the mind is silent and quiet, then inner energies wake up and work miracles on your behalf without any conscious effort on your part.

If we suspend judgment and look to how we can make conscious choices to uplift the situation, we can be sure that we are doing all we can to attract a happier and more harmonious outcome.

The universe is alive and conscious, and it responds to our intent when we have our intimate relationship with the universe and see it not as separate but as our extended body.

Take responsibility for making conscious choices.

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane.