Conscious Quotes

Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's my goal. These songs are steps along that way.

Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.

[The man] thinks he's being condemned because of his color but actually he's being condemned because of his deeds, his conscious behavior.

I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.

Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.

Women are wearing tight and sexy clothes again. It is the body-conscious mentality, and women are revealing every bulge.

As I became very conscious and more aware of things I got very into the beatniks and that kind of stuff. They were very important to me for a few years.

There are a lot of things that I'm allowing myself to be, but it's a conscious effort to experience contentment for me. My brain doesn't do that naturally. I'm very overwhelmed all of the time.

I think if somebody does something stupid, it's okay to make fun of them, but [celebrities] have also gotten very conscious about social media, kind of like the Catholic Church in the 1500s.

I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'

There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

One of the gifts of parenthood is that it forces you to be a bit more conscious about it, if only because you quickly realize that those kids are learning from your every action.

I think I'm a shy, self-conscious person who thinks he's being looked at and tries to look okay. Not in a hottie, narcissistic way necessarily.

The highest form of leadership is one in which a leader raises up other leaders - not as an accident, but as a result of conscious effort.

Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

I brag on the Democratic Party. We're libertarian on social issues, it's live and let live. Fiscally, we're conservative and responsible, and were environmentally conscious.

When you truly desire change, your conscious mind chooses the positive, new action.

Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy.

I want now to be of today. It is painful to be conscious of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness.

Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.

We make conscious choices to do something a certain way.

Most women at retirement have significantly less money than men, and they still get paid less than men. I'm sure that in my reptile brain I'm quite conscious of this.

Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion) and the learned skills of the conscious mind.

I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.

Good books do not make people wiser or happier--only more conscious.

Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.

I am very conscious on a daily basis of how extraordinarily blessed I am to get to do what I do and work with the people that I work with, so I make a practice of being grateful.

I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff.

I don't feel like I'm self-conscious about what's next. I don't care. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I know what it's like not to be.

To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It is finally the only story we give to someone we love.

I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control.

I'm not that fashion-conscious. A lot of times, when women are appearing to be so perfect, it's because they're a mess underneath.

Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.

My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.

Here is a good revolution in conscious and a good salvation formula for mankind: Get rid of religion, keep the God!

Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.

The spoiled superstar brat wouldn't get far in Oklahoma City. We're very value-conscious. Our city was settled in a land run. Those 10,000 people were desperate for a better life.

I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.

I can guarantee you nothing I do is a conscious attempt to inject something in.

One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human, is that you want to help everybody.

In an odd way, Donald Trump and maybe Brexit is gonna be great for inspiring a new wave of socially conscious political music.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

I do make a conscious effort to not repeat old patterns, instead of being like, But they don't want me! I haven't always been that way.

I've been more conscious of my salt intake, sugar intake, making sure I'm not eating as many processed foods.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They've go to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I've got to be conscious of that.

I know one thing: that you can do a lot of things but if you don't educate people into conscious anarchism it gets frittered away.

I've never met anybody quite like [Bill Shawn]. He created - and I'm sure it was conscious - an aura about him of quietude.