Best 504 quotes in «conscious quotes» category

I really hate being self-conscious—and being conscious of being self-conscious

I surrender myself to conscious unity with the highest.

I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.

I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.

I think American men are more conscious of putting up a good impression. There's more of an earthiness to Englishmen. But Americans aren't afraid to come up and say, "Hi, I'd like to go out with you." Englishmen are far more sheepish about it.

I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness.

It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.

It isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying.

I think music follows the trends of the collective conscious.

I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.

It is vain for us to pray while conscious that we have injured another. Let us first make amends to the injured one before we dare approach God at either the private or the public altar.

It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women (in parliament) who are conscious of women's rights ... There will also be women who are not committed to equality.

... it's hard to be politically conscious and upwardly mobile at the same time.

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.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

It was my misfortune-or salvation-to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality.

I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I spend a lot of time on the story's larger rhythms, such as sentence and paragraph length, placement of flashbacks and dialogue.

It wasn't until I moved to New York that I decided to make a conscious effort to be myself.

I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.

I've been more conscious of my salt intake, sugar intake, making sure I'm not eating as many processed foods.

I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.

I've never met anybody quite like [Bill Shawn]. He created - and I'm sure it was conscious - an aura about him of quietude.

I've subsequently become conscious of MAKING MEMORIES. Which makes me sound like a scrapbooker.

I was always a self-conscious person.

I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious.

I was never conscious of my screenplays having any acts. It's all bullshit.

I watch what I eat obviously. I'm not a regular gym-goer but I'm conscious of it.

I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.

I wish that a conscious sense of peace and a feeling of human solidarity would develop in all peoples.

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

I would agree on the aging thing. Because, at a certain point, once you start noticing it, it is your subject. And I know young that people, when they get to 30, say, "Oh, I'm so old." But actually, around 50, you do become conscious of it.

Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.

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

Knowledge creates the demand. The more people know about it, the more people will be interested and demand for things to be produced in a careful, conscious way.

Let me just say that the politics that I have are never the politics of poetics. I am not interested in politics. Politically, I am only very conscious of how we live and what we do right and what we do so awfully wrong.

I wouldn't like to say that I'm absolutely God conscious. It's like everybody else. We're battling with the forces that are pulling us upwards and downwards at the same time. But basically we all want love, that's what I feel.

Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.

Make sure furniture decor has similar scale. It's all about scale, proportion, measuring, being conscious of the overall plan.

Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.

Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.

Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, these men [Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. DuBois] fought for African national and racial equality.

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Modeling teaches you to be completely conscious of the camera. Acting is being totally unconscious of it.

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

Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.

Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.

Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but theres no conscious part of Catholicism in my life.

Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight.

Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.