I’m usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.
I was very conscious of my upper arms. I never wore sleeveless. I always wore a cardigan. I saw myself being super conscious of my appearance.
I’m conscious that there’s only a limited amount that I’ll get done before I get shuffled into retirement, but I certainly have no desire to retire.
I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.
The reason so many intelligent and creative people suffer from depression is that when you take the risk of being fully conscious, you open Pandora’s box, and you can’t close it again.
My dad’s a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity – intuition and compassion and tenderness – and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.
I’ve always been quite conscious of it, though I don’t know why. I would never overspend, and I have to know exactly what I’ve got so that I avoid going into overdraft. I watch my pennies, and I’m quite thrifty.
The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.
I have always been fascinated with romance and the fact that it is so effortless when we first fall in love but how it then becomes a conscious effort to stay creative and connected. Thats why I always say, ‘Get wise: keep your romance alive.’
You know how it’s almost impossible for kids to not say what they think? That’s me. I have to make the conscious effort to be situationally appropriate.
Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label ‘inspiration’.
Maybe it’s my age that makes me very conscious of loose threads, but I don’t think that’s an earmark of a fine product. And whenever I have a deep-seated feeling like that, I convey it to the person who made it. Sometimes they curse me, and sometimes they thank me.
It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.
The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.
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.
Since finishing my professional dancing career, I’ve been conscious of not letting myself go.
Whole Foods Market tries to embody all of the principles of conscious capitalism all the time, but like any person or company, we sometimes fall short.
I’ve always been aware of my health – when you are having to go on stage and perform, you need to be feeling good – but when I was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, I became really, really conscious of my health.
I don’t think anyone’s particularly conscious of thinking suits are the thing, but when you see a comedian on stage in jeans and a t-shirt it doesn’t matter how good they are – it always looks like amateur hour when they walk onto the stage.
I think the younger generation, the people poised to dominate the workforce, are more socially conscious. They are more demanding in terms of environment and how that environment contributes to their life.
If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.
On a bad day, I’ll still have a conscious thing in my mind reminding me that what I think of as a bad day is still a very good day in probably 90% of the world’s population’s eyes.
What will support any relationship is clear, complete and conscious conversations when upsets or breakdowns occur.
Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn’t always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.
Bob Marley was one of my favourite artists. He sang politically conscious lyrics, yet he sang love songs, too.
I just choose the scripts I want to work on. I don’t know why. It’s not something conscious or that I’m doing on purpose.
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
I don’t remember sitting down and saying, ‘This is why I want to be – an actress.’ I just knew. It was never a conscious decision or a revelation.
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.
When you look at a guy like a Jay-Z or look at a guy like a Nas, you don’t necessarily qualify them as conscious rap purely, although they are extremely conscious of the social inequities that prevail.
I’m more conscious about who I let into my heart, and I’m singing about it.
I think of our readers as young, conscious people. We can’t underestimate how far-reaching our content is, especially these days.
When you’re dead, you’re dead. I believe in shapes – you’re not conscious of it, but you’re like a tree that grows but takes a particular shape that is prewritten.
I’m not inherently the most politically or, like, socially conscious rapper, you know? You’re not just going to wake up tomorrow and be Common.
I was very conscious of the actor; watched what he did.
‘The Outsider’ is a culmination of a lot of things I’ve been working diligently toward as a recording artist. Hopefully it will render my past pigeonholing obsolete while positioning me more solidly as a socially conscious American singer/songwriter. Wouldn’t that be entertaining?
The more socially conscious you are, the better the work you make.
For some reason, 1968 is a touchstone year for me. I think it was the first year I felt fully conscious.
When Obama was inaugurated, he and his team had an insight – though whether the insight was conscious or not I don’t know. But it was this: The TARP $700 billion price tag was a new kind of model.
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
I think it’s really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
Still, the film nearly didn’t happen a number of times. There were great arguments with United Artists about how to reduce the cost because they were nothing if not conscious of the price of the film.
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
Humanity is mind-controlled and only slightly more conscious than your average zombie.
When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I’m continually inspired and write reflexively.
I’ve done very well financially and sold a lot because I’ve had a multiple method of attack as a writer. That’s a conscious strategy.
Make a conscious effort to loosen your hands and let your arms feel soft when you’re at address. Take the club back a bit shorter, and feel as if you’re cracking a whip on the way down – not tensing up to smash something hard.
Hypnosis is about shutting down the conscious mind and re-igniting the unconscious and the imagination, so while I give instructions to them under hypnosis, the contestants might interpret those instructions in all kinds of ways.
Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.
Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy – that some folks would hold that against me.
In Buddhism there are words you can say… as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious.
I never make conscious decisions.
The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.
Your conscious brain cannot multitask. If I’m speaking to you and checking my I-Phone at the same time, I’m doing neither. This is why our society is frazzled; this misconception that we can consciously do more than one thing at a time effectively.
Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated – and understood – without conscious thought.
