Conscious Quotes - Page 29

• I wish we could understand the word expert as expressing an attitude of mind which we can all acquire rather than the collecting of information by a special caste. ... Many of us are calling for experts because, acutely conscious of the mess we are in, we want someone to pull us out.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Attitude, Mind, Special

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• Even a small, everyday lie is a clue to the personality and preoccupations of the liar, like a dream or any other confection of the mind, that is half-conscious and half-unconscious, as all creative acts must be.

  Helen McCloy

  Dream, Liars, Lying

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• ... of the two kinds of order, the conscious and the unconscious order, only one is real. It's the order in the deep hidden places.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Real, Order, Two

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1986). “Teacher”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel passionately about how I express myself. Language is the greatest motivating force. You can phrase something positively and inspire people to do their best, or negatively and make them feel worried, uncertain, and self-conscious. You can talk at a fast pace and people will get nervous, feel afraid to bring up extraneous thoughts. But those are the very thoughts that might be most important! They might represent that person's best thinking. If you're rushed, you're simply not going to get at that extra level of thinking.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Thinking, Self, People

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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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• This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.

  Dorothee Solle

  Purpose, Theology

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• Ten years dropped from a man's life are no small loss; ten years of manhood, of household happiness and care; ten years of honest labor, of conscious enjoyment of sunshine and outdoor beauty; ten years of grateful life--one day looking forward to all this; the next, waking to find them passed, and a blank.

  Mary Mapes Dodge

  Grateful, Sunshine, Loss

  Mary Mapes Dodge (1866). “Hans Brinker: Or, The Silver Skates, a Story of Life in Holland”, p.262

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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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• 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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• 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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• You have no idea the power generated each time somebody is told a story. When a conscious, sentient mind willingly ignores what is real, what is fact, and instead chooses to invest in people and places that never existed...It's magnificent.

  Derek Landy

  Real, Ideas, People

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• This conversion into prayer of our everyday joys, sorrows, hopes and desires is at first a conscious labor, but after a while it becomes second nature, so that converse with God becomes inextricably and wonderfully woven into the fabric of our lives.

  Sheila Cassidy

  Prayer, Joy, Everyday

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• I always get self-conscious about what I look like in a film, but less so if I'm a character very far removed from who I am. Then I just worry about the performance, and that's equally an odd experience.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Character, Self, Who I Am

  "Q&A: Benedict Cumberbatch talks Penguins Of Madagascar". Interview with Andy Lea, www.dailystar.co.uk. December 7, 2014.

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• American people, what about the American people? I think the president delights in the fact that they have been roofied by technology and pop culture. They're not conscious to any expansion of power, which is why they're happy to exist in this dependant decline.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Technology, Thinking, People

  "Critics pan Obama's threat to bypass Congress". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, Bob Beckel, Eric Bolling, Dana Perino, and Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. January 16, 2014.

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• It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Stars, Shining, Privilege

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• So many of the conscious and unconscious ways men and women treat each other have to do with romantic and sexual fantasies that are deeply ingrained, not just in society but in literature. The women's movement may manage to clean up the mess in society, but I don't know whether it can ever clean up the mess in our minds.

  Nora Ephron

  Men, Mind, Literature

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• Cats of great personality are always found in association with sensitive, cat-conscious people; it is a two-way process of immense mutual benefit.

  Patricia Moyes

  Cat, Mutual Benefit, Two

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• The opposite of thinking clearly is being muddled. To be conscious of being muddled is a horrible experience. To avoid it we may even be tempted to shut our minds and swallow a belief, ready-made, from some expert authority.

  Susan Stebbing

  Thinking, Opposites, Mind

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• So the dream is continually reminding us of the part which our conscious is forgetting. It does not speak with any absolute authority; it simply gives a true picture of a situation which exists in the unconscious. It speaks truth; but not, as some persons believe, the truth. It shows the other side.

  Frances G. Wickes

  Dream, Believe, Giving

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• Nervousness is caused by wanting two opposing things at the same time, one consciously and the other subconsciously. The battle is resolved when you make the subconscious desire conscious. On the other hand, if you know what you are, there will be no conflicts. You can do that through seeking. It is not necessary to understand the negative. It is far better to be positive. Be Your Self.

  Lester Levenson

  Self, Hands, Two

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• Like, I'm hyper-conscious about going to bed on time, and doing my seven-step skin care routine at night.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Night, Skins, Bed

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• There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.

  George Eliot

  Baptism, Consecration, Ifs

  George Eliot (1872). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.251

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• I do find, coming form the stage and all that, I've always been conscious of my posture and my body, but also the style aspect, I do find myself throwing on a blazer and a nice pair of loafers more often. Daddy always likes a new pair of Guccis.

  Bryan Batt

  Nice, Daddy, Style

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