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.

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.

I don't think we can sit on the fence anymore. We have to make up our minds. And if one wants to choose the path of darkness, then so be it, but be conscious of what it is you're doing.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider.

This... there's nothing more difficult than this. Because we have really, truly good white people in important positions. And the fact of the matter is that there are a limited number of those positions. And unless we are conscious of the need to have more people of color, gays, other people in those positions we will not change the problem. We're in a position where you have to say who is going to step down so someone else can have power.

I've just become more conscious about how much I do drink and how often I want to have a drink and things like that. I think being conscious of it will help me to control the urges.

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions.

I'm very conscious of the fact that when I'm working, my daughter is not with one of her parents.

There's a conscious decision to everything I do.

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.

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky.

I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.

In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious.

I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses, you would have sworn that she was conscious from the top of her head to the tag on her toes.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.

In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.