Even when I got ₹500 a month as pocket money, I would never spend all of it. It’s the same now. I am just conscious of the fact that I wasn’t born with a silver spoon.
School was very difficult. I was conscious of how I looked.
The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
The idea that you’re made up of the people that come before you and you somehow have some kind of conscious dialog with your genetics – I think it’s really deep and interesting stuff.
To really be conscious of how long the journey is, be patient, push yourself, persevere, and always be working on your craft while waiting for your break. That’s what I’m still working on, having done this for 20 years now.
You always have to be conscious of how your words can provide motivation to the opposition.
It’s common knowledge that professional athletes earn extraordinary incomes. What is less known or understood is how the advent of these riches has seeped into the conscious and unconscious ways in which our society now parents children.
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.
I wasn’t really conscious about ‘The 39 Clues’ movie when I wrote ‘The Black Circle.’
Acting isn’t something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you’re going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.
We need to be both conscious and competent to design products that emulate nature’s life cycles, making sure that they endure and are either recycled or absorbed.
We are deeply conscious of the fact that our north and west must be developed.
I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that’s physical, that’s about a beat and bass and repetition.
At Harvard, direct cinema was the core of the film department, and most of the students were trying to make socially conscious works, but I was trying to combine fiction and non-fiction to show how our seemingly factual world is constituted through fantasy and stories.
The most effective adaptation of racism over time is the idea that racism is conscious bias held by mean people.
The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.
A robot-arm in a factory doesn’t decide minute by minute whether to rivet or revolt – it just does the job is has literally been trained to do. It’s if and when we build a conscious robot that we may have to worry.
Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.
I don’t want to pretend to be a prophet or a saint. I’m very conscious of my limitations. I know my flaws. But I don’t like lying.
People ask ‘do you make a conscious effort not to swear?’ – if you’re doing silly stuff you’re not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.
Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It’s a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
Sometimes it’s even hard to tell the difference between a tic and a compulsion. But while tics stem from an urge in a specific part of the body – either completely unconsciously or through a premonitory sensation that’s satisfied only by the tic – OCD bubbles up as conscious thoughts in the mind.
My grandmother and my mother raised me, but my dad made a conscious effort to be in my life – every weekend he would take me out.
Both my mother-in-law and Rajiv made it easy for me. I feel very Indian and am not conscious of being an Italian in India.
Coming up, the music of my era was very conscious. I grew up on Public Enemy, and it was popular culture to be aware. People were wearing Malcolm X T-shirts and Malcolm X hats. It was a very cool thing to know who Malcolm X was. It was all in the lyrics. It was trendy to be conscious and aware.
I think I’m a very sentimental person. Conscious or not, that’s what draws me to the kind of films I want to make.
In terms of Cube I think he’s very conscious of the technical aspect of the business whereas when you’re just hired as an actor, you’re not really secure in that part of your work and you’re not really paying attention to where the camera.
My conscious decision has always been to do work that’s meaningful and play characters that give something to the film.
Only conscious man can mirror the universal: he can consciously become one with the universal and so can consciously transcend the individual.
Some days we may be more acutely conscious of our sinfulness and hence more aware of our need of His grace, but there is never a day when we can stand before Him on our own two feet of performance, when we are worthy enough to deserve His blessing.
On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class.
In all great epochs of history, the existence of standards – that is, the conscious adoption of type-forms – has been the criterion of a polite, well-ordered society; for it is a commonplace that repetition of the same things for the same purpose exercises a settling and civilizing influence on men’s minds.
Sound affects us physiologically, psychologically, cognitively, and behaviorally all the time. The sound around us is affecting us even though we’re not conscious of it.
My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.
The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.
I will now be very mindful about it, and if I feel like I’ve been on my phone too much one day, I’m going to be more conscious of that and not be so obsessed.
What I’ve been conscious of, from the beginning is that I can’t be Jil Sander.
I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don’t think that’s a painter’s business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.
I’m very conscious of who I work with. Because I want to develop and nurture my writers so they can have their own shows, take on whatever is next for them.
I think music follows the trends of the collective conscious.
You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with the additions of a vast number of thinkers, theologians and pastors, has resisted and still exists after two thousand years.
It was a conscious choice, to build my own career, to make a name for myself. Another issue here, of course, is that I used all means to build it and was ready to pay any price for it.
There are only three events in a man’s life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
One thing that’s consistent in all of my work is that these aren’t accidents; they’re all conscious landscapes. They’re all things that we’re doing and that we have done through our legal and social systems and structures of capitalism.
I’ve had a wonderful life. The reason it’s been a wonderful life is I’ve made conscious choices to get up, to basically love life.
Home will always be Northern Ireland but my schedule means for the next few years I won’t be there as much. I can’t do the same things that I did a year ago. That is I’m something conscious of, but I’m not sad about it. It’s fine.
You’re obviously conscious of being brash or big-headed but I always knew I was going to be a footballer when I was seven or eight. I didn’t just think I wanted to be one, I knew I was going to be one. Nothing ever surprised me really.
The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.
The point of psychoanalysis is to really understand the roots of your behavior. Understand why you are doing the things you’re doing – and connect your unconscious to your conscious.
At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.
The kind of music I’m trying to make is conscious, to make people think and feel and get inspired.
Initially what defined me as a ‘man repeller’ was my conscious effort to wear clothing that was attractive in my opinion but not necessarily in a man’s opinion.
I do have to earn a living, so I’m conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I’m not enjoying a story, the reader won’t either.
There are conscious reasons and unconscious reasons why I pick something. You know, I have to be moved by the story and usually that means it has to touch me in some kind of personal place.
