Conscious Quotes

Be awake to the details around you, but don't be self-conscious.

Sometimes the subconscious mind manifests a wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the conscious mind, and has its own way of leading us toward our destiny.

The conscious mind is easily overwhelmed. The unconscious mind is vast and far more powerful, but by definition we're not aware of it.

Our conscious minds are rapidly overwhelmed with the few tasks that they attempt to manage. That's why our unconscious minds have evolved to handle so much of our thinking.

I believe that we have to be so race-conscious in this day and age.

Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans.

The fact of the matter is that the U.S. is run by an unusually class-conscious, dedicated business class that has a very violent labor history, much worse than in Europe.

Be conscious of one another and everything that we are connected to in this world of ours (not just your relatives and friends).

There's such a self-conscious balance that goes into television. Also, these are not people that think things through.

Ugly design should be rejected, just like nonfunctional design is rejected, just like nonenvironmentally conscious design should be rejected. It's a value.

I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?

No one really listens to the drums, I don't think. They're there, but it's not a conscious thing to listen to. Everyone listens to the vocals, of course, and the words.

Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly meant to be here.

I know that I was conscious of all the aspects of the war, having had cousins who were in the army, who would send me notes and memorabilia. I began to collect things that they would send me.

Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious. But we must admit that criminals are not unlike our heroes in this respect.

I was certainly never conscious of 'playing the woman'. I would not have approved of that. It is not a winning tactic. I operated in the world as I found it, and it was a man's world.

Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're happy.

Mother Teresa's numerical results were not her greatest contribution. Instead, she made the world-and especially India-conscious of compassion.

There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.

I think music follows the trends of the collective conscious.

When we put our keys down, we should be conscious of putting them down. When we pick them up, we should be conscious of picking them up. That's all there is to zen.

I would say that, apart from being a writer, I have also always been very conscious of the idea of a 'world elsewhere'.

One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

We preach to men as if they were conscious they were dying sinners, they are not; they are having a good time.

The mind that's conscious of its rectitude, Laughs at the lies of rumor.

Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.

You don't feel as self-conscious if your clothes fit.

In meditation you are not unconscious, you are conscious - more conscious than ever.

The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage.

Give deliberately. Giving is at its best when it's a conscious effort that's repeatedly made.

If you are a conscious human being who has opinions about the world, then you will unconsciously put your own perspective into the book.

You create your future with the power of your intention. Intention is simply the conscious act of determining your future now.

It's difficult to change, because I have to admit that I have been previously living in a less compassionate and loving way. Sometimes we just want to be right instead of fully conscious.

My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.

I kept doing my own thing, working out with weights, wrestling, and doing other spots until I graduated from high school. Then I made a conscious decision to pursue MMA seriously and full time.

The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents - conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting.

New research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avoid conscious control.

I think traditional supermarkets have to pay attention to the fact that America is more and more conscious of lifestyle.

Rich Christiansen is one of the most insightful, practical and cost-conscious entrepreneurs in the world today. Listen to Rich. He won't steer you wrong.

I have a three-year-old daughter, which makes me more environmentally conscious. For me, it's about the future.

The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness.

People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion when a camera comes out. I view it as a thing to fear.

You're saying no ninety-seven times out of a hundred, and most founders find they have to make a very conscious effort to do this.

The heat of charity opens the doors of the heart. The heat of charity brings solar faith to the Mind. Charity is Conscious Love.

Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.

I made a conscious decision to earn enough to be able to choose my husband rather than not have a career and marry someone who would have to earn enough for us both to live on.

This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.