Conscious Quotes - Page 4

• We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

  Vernon Howard

  Perception, Conflict

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• The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Real, Thinking, Awareness

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• To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

  William James

  Mean, Awareness, Known

  Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Movement, Painting, Film

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• Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

  Mark Rylance

  Real, Order, Ideas

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.

  Gene Wolfe

  Thinking, Evil, Genuine

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• When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.

  Anita Desai

  Self, My Family, Share

  "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.

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• You cannot find your soul with your mind,
  you must use your heart.
  You must know what you are feeling.
  If you don't know what you are feeling, you will create unconsciously.
  If you are unconscious of an aspect of yourself;
  if it operates outside your field of awareness,
  that aspect has power over you.

  Gary Zukav

  Heart, Power, Creating

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• The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, 'Look, you’re in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, that’s not been touched. So you’re at home here? Well, there’s not enough of you there.' And so it starts.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• Conscious business.. business that is conscious of inner and outer worlds.. would therefore be business that takes into account body, mind, and spirit in self, culture, and nature. Put differently, conscious business would be mindful of the way that the spectrum of consciousness operates in the Big Three worlds of self and culture and nature.

  Ken Wilber

  God, Business, Self

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• Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

  David Foster Wallace

  Rap, Pride, Black

  Interview With Larry McCaffery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1993.

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• Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, House

  Twitter post from Dec 04, 2015

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• Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Independent, Purpose, Unconscious

  William Irwin Thompson (1987). “Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology”, Inner Traditions International

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• I try not to do scenes a certain way, because then I become conscious of it, and it dosen't come off as realistic. I try to make it so that I'm not really aware of what I'm doing.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Trying, Way, Realistic

  "Old News: Bringing it On Since 1898". Interview with Brendan Lemon, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2000.

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• The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

  T. S. Eliot

  Poetry, Crafts, Ought

  T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.92, Broadview Press

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• In a lot of areas of my life, particularly in my teenage years, I began to think about the world, and to think about the universe as being a part of my conscious everyday life.

  Julius Erving

  Motivational, Basketball, Teenage

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

  Ken Burns

  Mean, Artist, Choices

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• Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

  Gertrude Stein

  Children, Thinking, Vote

  Gertrude Stein, Robert Bartlett Haas (1971). “A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein”

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• It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

  Don Cheadle

  People, Theatre, Want

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• My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, Consciousness, Psychologist

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.106, Syracuse University Press

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• We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Self, Ideas, Programming

  "Are We Spiritual Machines?". Live Chat, www.kurzweilai.net. July 24, 2002.

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• As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  School, Mean, Clothes

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• I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Drug, Consciousness, Unnecessary

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from May 29, 2011

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• I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Determination, Years, Drunk

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• I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.

  Sally Kirkland

  Decision, Engagement, Actresses

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