Conscious Quotes

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 was very conscious of the actor; watched what he did.

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.

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.

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.

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.

I don't think anyone's particularly conscious of thinking suits are the thing, but when you see a comedian on stage in jeans and a t-shirt it doesn't matter how good they are - it always looks like amateur hour when they walk onto the stage.

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.

I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.