Conscious Quotes
I don't remember sitting down and saying, 'This is why I want to be--an actress.' I just knew. It was never a conscious decision or a revelation.
I will have faith that, though I might not understand why adversity happens, by my conscious choice I can find strength, compassion, and grace through my trials.
No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.
The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.
Despite the never ending play of conscious correction and instruction, the surrounding atmosphere and spirit is in the end the chief agent in forming manners.
We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is not, are due to standards of which we are not conscious at all.
We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.
The gods, (if gods to goodness are inclined If acts of mercy touch their heavenly mind), And, more than all the gods, your generous heart, Conscious of worth, requite its own desert!
I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing.
When Obama was inaugurated, he and his team had an insight - though whether the insight was conscious or not I don't know. But it was this: The TARP $700 billion price tag was a new kind of model.
I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.
I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent."
When I start writing for the day, I usually read aloud the chapter I'm working on. It gets me into it and illuminates mistakes. I'm very rhythm conscious and I do enjoy repetition.
I have to be clear with myself and very conscious of what I am trying to say. Misunderstandings will always take place; it's unavoidable.
In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that affects the writing.
I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.
When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are tendered conscious.
Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of.
I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.
I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that a story.
Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.
The non-spatial nature of consciousness makes it possible for any apparently unconscious entity to be conscious, and vice versa.
I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.
I guess I am conscious of my weaknesses, and I think pacing is probably my biggest. I don't know if I think the clarity thing is actually a weakness. It was a stylistic choice.
I don't think, as a 15-year-old, you're that conscious about a lifetime career. I didn't think: "I'm a serious actor." I never studied acting or anything when I was that age.
He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of mankind, Virtue will never desert him. He returns to the state of a little child.
I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.
No wonder the regulators decided on segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and self-conscious and confused and annoyed all the time.
I think I'm still, in many ways, a terribly self-conscious person. I'd probably be shooting and think, "Well, how does my hair look?"
All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.
Apathy is so hard not to feel in this world that I see it and the devil walking hand in hand ruining our world. We can take more control by being conscious to start with.
I think that there is just a deep and abiding sexism that's part of your life from the moment that you're conscious as a female.
My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.
In the consciousness of the infinite, the conscious subject has for his object the infinity of his own nature.
Now that I am conscious of the world of chronic pain, when I see somebody walking down the street who's having trouble, I feel a sadness for them. I notice.
Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.
When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.
When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.