Conscious Quotes - Page 36

• Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.

  Sam Harris

  Facts, Well Being, Wells

  "Sam Harris: Can Science Determine Human Values?". library.fora.tv. November 10, 2010.

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• If we make sure we stay in a state of conscious alertness for the next synchronicity, our minds stay on the positive and off our fear and doubt.

  James Redfield

  Doubt, Mind, Alertness

  James Redfield (2001). “The Secret of Shambhala: In Search of the Eleventh Insight”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.

  Sam Harris

  Mind, Suffering, Facts

  Sam Harris (2011). “The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility.

  Jon Landau

  Self, Band, England

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• Nothing in Nature, much less conscious being, Was e'er created solely for itself.

  Edward Young

  Nature

  Edward Young (1799). “The Poetical Works of Rev. Dr. E. Young: With the Life of the Author”, p.223

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• I think that older lesbians definitely didn't take care of themselves. They didn't exercise. But the younger lesbians, they're very different. They go to the gym. They manage their eating. They're much more fashion-conscious.

  Jackie Warner

  Fashion, Exercise, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I started working in front of the camera for the first time when I was 15 years old. I joined a soap opera. We filmed in Brooklyn and I would skip class to shoot my scenes. It was terrifying and I entirely self-conscious in front of the camera.

  Paul Wesley

  Class, Self, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always get nervous before a kissing scene. I make sure I always brush my teeth and eat lots of fruit and nice foods rather than garlic. I'm terribly self conscious.

  Drew Barrymore

  Nice, Kissing, Self

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were writing encyclopedia entries instead of stories. Their hesitancy about physical and psychological intimacy can be a barrier to vital fiction. Conversely, a narration that makes readers hear the characters' heavy breathing and smell their emotional anguish diminishes distance. Readers feel so close to the characters that, for those magical moments, they become those characters.

  Jerome Stern

  Distance, Character, Writing

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• I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings - everything was a gesture, everything was conscious.

  Dennis Hopper

  Reading, Ideas, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing.

  Charles Stross

  Mistake, Block, Sweat

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• I like to get something that is impossible to verbally order. Sometimes it's something the person is not even conscious of, and it's something you could never ask of them specifically. It's just there.

  Pirjo Honkasalo

  Order, Impossible, Sometimes

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When I make films, I'm very conscious about leaving space for an uncertainty, and for some unexpected things.

  Jørgen Leth

  Space, Leaving, Unexpected

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I used to be very unathletic. I was always so gangly and self-conscious about my height. I had convinced myself I was uncoordinated. And as a result, I didn't want to try stuff.

  Geena Davis

  Self, Trying, Want

  "The Conversation With Geena Davis, Leading The Charge On Gender Equity In Entertainment". Interview with Alison Glock, www.espn.com. October 30, 2015.

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• If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Artist, Problem

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• I am a trained hypnotherapist, yes, but it's more like a guided meditation. Most of the people I take under struggle with stress in their lives and have unbalanced sleeping patterns, so what I do enables my patients to regain energy and peacefulness on a subconscious level which affects their conscious mind.

  Tanit Phoenix

  Stress, Struggle, Sleep

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• To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort - allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Ideas, Effort, Mind

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• A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Hatred, Quality

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• Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Turns, Tolerate

  Martin Luther “On the Jews & Their Lies”, Gottfried & Fritz

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• Happiness, like health, is probably also only a passing accident. For a moment or two the organism is irritated so little that it is not conscious of it; for the duration of that moment it is happy. Thus a hog is always happier than a man, and a bacillus is happier than a hog

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Two, Duration

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.375, Vintage

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• As biological organisms made of matter, we are subject to the laws of physics and biology: as conscious persons who create our own history we are free to decide what that history shall be. Without science, we should have no notion of equality; without art, no notion of liberty.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Should Have, Law

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• I guess it really didn't even dawn on me that you could be a rock critic as a job until I was maybe almost out of college. I knew criticism existed. I read Rolling Stone and Spin. Siskel and Ebert were on television. But I had absolutely no idea how to get that kind of life. And moreover, it didn't interest me that much. I just sort of read normal books growing up. I wasn't that media-conscious. I felt like the one thing I was able to do was to listen to a record and decide whether I liked it.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Jobs, Growing Up, Book

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• As I became very conscious and more aware of things I got very into the beatniks and that kind of stuff. They were very important to me for a few years.

  Marc Maron

  Years, Important, Stuff

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The scriptures say to wake up from the deep sleep of ignorance, remain fully awake, remain conscious, & go on learning.

  Rama Swami

  Ignorance, Sleep, Wake Up

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• The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis.

  Rene Descartes

  Ideas, Mind, Analysis

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