Conscious Quotes

The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.

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.

I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that a story.

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

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.

I try not to do scenes a certain way, because then I become conscious of it, and it dosen't come off as realistic. I try to make it so that I'm not really aware of what I'm doing.

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

I don't stick to special techniques, conscious techniques.

Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity.

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue.

Have you ever wondered what your subconscious mind looks like? Well today, I can show you.

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?

The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.

I think Elvis loved his fans - I think that's why they loved him and still love him. Fans are very conscious and sensitive to the fact that performers love them.

You're obviously conscious of being brash or big-headed but I always knew I was going to be a footballer when I was seven or eight. I didn't just think I wanted to be one, I knew I was going to be one. Nothing ever surprised me really.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.

My mum was very conscious about fashion and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now, really, I wear the same thing - just in different weights - light and heavy cashmere in winter and cotton in summer.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.

So we mustn't lower our guard in any sense because of what has happened in terms of the death of Osama Bin Laden and we are certainly not doing that. The terror threat level here in the U.K. remains at severe and we're very conscious of the need to continue that.