Conscious Quotes

• For the self-conscious or insecure girl, technology can become a crippling addiction, an insatiable hunger not just for connection but the elusive promise of being liked by everyone.

  

  Rachel Simmons
  • Girl
  • Technology
  • Promise

• 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've come to realize that I perform best when I'm letting my subconscious mind hit the ball and my conscious mind is otherwise occupied.

  

  Al Geiberger
  • Conscious
  • Ball
  • Subconscious

• 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

• Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Genius

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

  

  Raf Simons
  • Beginning
  • Conscious
  • Been

• As a conscious rap artist, you should not want to be in a gangster market. You should be trying to establish your own market, create a place where you can be yourself and make some money and feed your family.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Trying
  • Artist
  • Rap

• I'm a huge fan of Leonardo DiCaprio's career. I love the path that he's taken. He seems to be very conscious of exactly what kind of project he wants for the following part of his career.

  

  Roberto Aguire
  • Conscious
  • Project
  • Following

• The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Conscious
  • Fountain
  • Rises

• In L.A., it's very easy to be healthy, because everybody there is so health conscious that no matter where you go, everybody is exercising or eating very healthy, and they have a lot of farmers markets. The problem is when you go on location or I go home to Wisconsin. That's where it gets difficult.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Health
  • Farmers
  • Markets

• Perhaps, if we don't always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is not so easily erased.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Memory
  • Conscience
  • Erased

• I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Quality
  • Brother
  • Self

• I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Pretty
  • Role
  • Transparent

• 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

• I am not homophobic; I am cock-conscious.

  

  Joe Rogan
  • Conscious
  • Homophobic
  • Cock

• The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.

  

  Tim Finn Crowded House
  • Trying
  • Joy
  • Songwriting

• 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

• 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

• What I learned at a very early age was that I was responsible for my life. And as I became more spiritually conscious, I learned that we all are responsible for ourselves, that you create your own reality by the way you think and therefore act. You cannot blame your parents, your circumstances, because you are NOT your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Age
  • Parents

• My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Pain

• Right around 2004 when 'Ray' came out, I made a conscious decision to be more discerning because I thought to myself, 'After something like this, I really have to try to be strong enough to turn stuff down.'

  

  Bokeem Woodbine
  • Decision
  • Stuff
  • Conscious

• I have been accused of denying consciousness but I am not conscious of having done so.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Done
  • Consciousness
  • Accused

• 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

• We are sufficiently conscious of this dimension or quality of Brazil as a melting pot, as a culture and a nation that is being subjected to an amalgamating process. More than just a mixing process, it is an amalgamation where the fragments, the parts in collision, really interact profoundly. They become another thing after the contact.

  

  Gilberto Gil
  • Quality
  • Fragments
  • Amalgamation

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