Conscious Quotes - Page 19

• He died right after he retired, and seeing that made me feel more conscious of a man needing a motive to live. If I ever got out of coaching, I would have to get a job somewhere, or I'm afraid I'd wilt on the vine, too.

  Bobby Bowden

  Jobs, Men, Nfl

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• [W]hen the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that all those millions of neural circuits will be reconstituted in an immaterial state, so the conscious mind carries on?

  E. O. Wilson

  Mind, Religion, Hens

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.364, Vintage

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• I've always been athletic. Growing up in Puerto Rico, and being in the countryside, I was always running around. I also played volleyball, basketball, and I ran track. I was always very conscious of my body.

  Joan Smalls

  Basketball, Running, Volleyball

  "VIDEO: How to Work Out Like Joan Smalls". Interview, www.elle.com. September 16, 2014.

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• We have to understand there are two parts of our mind, there's the conscious and the subconscious. It's the subconscious that controls our behavior. It's the conscious mind where the intellect is resident. So the conscious mind is understanding information, but it's not internalizing it.

  Bob Proctor

  Two, Understanding, Mind

  Source: pavlinapapalouka.com

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• My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or just not giving a sh-t to write something you know people are going to criticize.

  Conor Oberst

  Writing, Thinking, Self

  "Desaparecidos' Conor Oberst: We're perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying". Interview with Jessica Goodman, ew.com. July 07, 2015.

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• I believe I'm very conscious of exactly what I'm doing. I'm auditioning lines of dialogue, and I'm interrogating whether the lines would translate from Russian into English the right way. The English that results can perhaps seem somewhat more formal than colloquial, but not so formal as to feel academic.

  David Bezmozgis

  Believe, Way, Lines

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.

  Miles Franklin

  Men, Breathing, Silence

  Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.27, ETT Imprint

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• The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.

  Hugh Walpole

  Men, People, Saint

  Sir Hugh Walpole (1940). “Roman Fountain”

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• I am conscious of eternal life.

  Theodore Parker

  Immortality, Eternal Life, Eternal

  Theodore Parker (1850). “A Sermon of Immortal Life: Preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday, September 20th, 1846”, p.26

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• There is scarcely a man who is not conscious of the benefits which his own mind has received from the performance of single acts of benevolence. How strange that so few of us try a course of the same medicine!

  John Frederick Boyes

  Men, Medicine, Mind

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.3

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• Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Change, Entertainment, Positive Experiences

  Mary Catherine Bateson (1985). “With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson”, Pocket Books

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• No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.

  Charlotte Lennox

  Envy, Virtue, Envious

  Charlotte Lennox (1762). “Sophia”, p.128

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• If we fail in this country, it is because we are too timid. If we lose our way in America, it is because we are too complacent. We must become conscious to the real threats before us and act creatively, imaginatively, now. We can no longer look to leadership beyond ourselves.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Country, Real, America

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• The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking.

  Sharon Begley

  Thinking, Brain, Different

  Sharon Begley (2008). “Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves”, p.254, Ballantine Books

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• The problems raised by a conscious direction of economic affairs on a national scale inevitably assume even greater dimensions when the same is attempted internationally. The conflict between planning and freedom cannot but become more serious as the similarity of standards and values among those submitted to a unitary plan diminishes.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Dimensions, Serious, Planning

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Education, Ideas, Increase

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• The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.

  Alice James

  Complacency, Gains, Recluse

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• Life presents us with repeated opportunities to face what we fear, what we need to become conscious of, or what we need to master.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Opportunity, Needs, Faces

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• Why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a form of mental cowardice, and I long to break free, to let my imagination take wings. It doesn't - yet.

  Winifred Holtby

  Writing, Wings, Long

  Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

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• I want now to be of today. It is painful to be conscious of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness.

  Mary Antin

  Two, World, Want

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• When man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of certainty for his knowledge.

  Cornelius Van Til

  Men, Thinking, Self

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• We have this recurring dream that we're human beings, that we have bodies, that we're in time and space, that there is birth and death. To awaken from the dream of life is to be conscious of eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Buddhism, Space

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• An effective leader is willing to think about what's happening and how to understand what's going on. Facilitating flow and making others more conscious of it, the leader communicates an awareness of process to the group, making them more aware of their energies and options. One important principle is to keep track of who has not spoken. ... It's also important to notice when people do speak out but are not heard. Effective leaders practice patience, reminding themselves to wait and observe, remembering that there's always more going on in a group than we're consciously aware of.

  Diane Dreher

  Leadership, Thinking, Speaks Out

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• Animals don't even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. ... The conscious impulse to change one's appearance is found only among humans.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Animal, Trying, Different

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Communication is a science as well as an art. What does speaking precisely mean? You are consciously communicating with another person at that person's frequency, not yours.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Art, Communication, Mean

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