Conscious Quotes

• ... we become so accustomed to meet with injustice, and, if we are at all sincere with our own hearts, are so conscious of being guity of it ourselves, that we learn to look upon it almost as a necessity.

  

  Elizabeth Missing Sewell
  • Heart
  • Injustice
  • Sincere

• Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • State
  • Conscious
  • Responsibilities

• I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Know
  • Part
  • Wants

• Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the investigator of his broad horizon and degrades him to the level of a mechanic.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Scientific
  • Worker
  • Relegation

• What we're calling 'presencing' is possible because of this womb, where the absolute and the manifest interact. I think a buddhist would say that presencing can arise to the extent that we develop the capacity, individually and collectively, to extend our conscious awareness in both domains.

  

  Betty Sue Flowers
  • Buddhist
  • Womb
  • Domains

• We can be more or less conscious when you create grades of focus on a subject that is flowing in our stream of consciousness.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Focus
  • Conscious
  • Stream

• My clothes have always got a very strong dynamic rapport with the body - they are very body conscious, they help you to look glamorous, more hourglass, more woman.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Strong
  • Helping
  • Glamorous

• Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits of metaphoric thought. In a fully mature literary tradition the writerenters intoa structure of traditional stories and images.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Literature
  • Habit
  • Tradition

• I wasn't really conscious about 'The 39 Clues' movie when I wrote 'The Black Circle.'

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Movie
  • Black
  • Circle

• Knowledge has two extremes. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great minds, who, having run through all that men can know, find they know nothing, and come back again to that same natural ignorance from which they set out; this is a learned ignorance which is conscious of itself.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Birth

• I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible.

  

  Richard Thompson
  • Conscious
  • Making
  • Accessible

• 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.

  

  Molly Parker
  • Strong
  • Conscious
  • Complexes

• Every food I choose to eat helps me become more conscious of how it either moves me forward to my fab weight or backward to my flab weight.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Me
  • Food
  • Weight

• When you look at a guy like a Jay-Z or look at a guy like a Nas, you don't necessarily qualify them as conscious rap purely, although they are extremely conscious of the social inequities that prevail.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Guy
  • Looks
  • Rap

• You look out on the street, and everyone has their heads in their phones. Nobody's really looking up at the sky or the buildings and taking the day in. I try to be conscious of it, but everybody falls prey to it.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Everyone
  • Phones
  • Heads

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

  

  Carl Andre
  • Political
  • Matter
  • Conscious

• What I've been conscious of, from the beginning is that I can't be Jil Sander.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Beginning
  • Conscious
  • Been

• Like the song "Stereo", to me that's like, kind of hip-hop in that slacker way. There's some slackerisms mixed in with that stuff, but it wasn't really conscious, I guess. When things would get more typical rock'n'roll that was my fallback to go to those kind of lyrics instead of the alternatives.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Hip Hop
  • Rock N Roll
  • Fallback

• We understand very clearly what's at stake. The president made a conscious decision to cater to the base and left Middle America out in the cold.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Decision
  • President
  • Conscious

• In every moment we make a decision -- whether conscious or unconscious. Will I choose to open my heart, send love, withhold judgment and thus free myself from fear? Or will I close my heart, project fear instead of extending love, judge others, and thus bind myself to fear? The choice is mine and mine alone.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Heart
  • Free
  • Fear

• This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Feeling
  • Feelings
  • Levels

• Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.

  

  Plutarch
  • Wounds
  • Repentance
  • Remorse

• If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.

  

  Robin Gibb Bee Gees
  • World
  • Heart
  • Brain

• Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • She
  • Nature
  • Air

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