Consciously Quotes

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches.

It is important for us consciously to say, or claim, only the things we want rather than what we do not want.

I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.

I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting - walled-in - I had become. Not consciously so, but just this armour that I kind of have, protective armour. It's not for my friends or family, but for being.outside in the world, always on guard.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.

Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the "given" material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.

I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What's it all about?

I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.

I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.

This American Jewish music is a new experience for us at least consciously.

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.

I don't consciously do anything to maintain a unique voice.

All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.

But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.