Conscious Quotes - Page 22

• I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.

  Joan Cusack

  Character, Thinking, Self

  "Celebrity Q+A: Joan Cusack". Interview with Patty A. Martinez, www.familycircle.com.

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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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• You can live a healthy lifestyle and do the best to be aware of your body and conscious, and thats what I attempt to do.

  Hill Harper

  Healthy, Body, Lifestyle

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• Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola and Ernst Lubitsch. In art school, I studied painters like Edward Hopper, who used urban motifs, Franz Kafka is my favorite novelist. My approach to film stems from my art background, as I go beyond the story to the sub-conscious mood created by sound and images.

  David Lynch

  Art, School, Sound

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• All men are body conscious. If they say they're not, they're lying.

  Gilles Marini

  Lying, Men, Body

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• Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.

  Jeff Garlin

  Comedian, Forget, Sometimes

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• The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in transforming the natural phenomena into 'another reality.' This part of the creative process as an independent element, if conscious and developed, hints at the possibility of creating a painting.

  Frantisek Kupka

  Creativity, Independent, Artist

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• Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth [gems] of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession.

  Anna Cora Mowatt

  Fall, Heart, Men

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• A man does not entreat for love. It is the irresistible impulse towards each other of two souls, a union in which there is neither conscious giving nor receiving.

  Rosa Campbell Praed

  Love, Men, Two

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• No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.

  Carol Bly

  Ideas, Two, Stories

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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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• A people who still remembered that their ancestors had been the masters of the world would have applauded, with conscious pride, the representation of ancient freedom, if they had not long since been accustomed to prefer the solid assurance of bread to the unsubstantial visions of liberty and greatness.

  Edward Gibbon

  Pride, Greatness, Long

  Edward Gibbon (1820). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.165

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• With every choice you make, be conscious of what need it serves.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Choices, Needs

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• High school was hard for me. I tried really hard to fit in and said the things I thought people wanted to hear. But I was unsure of myself. I was self-conscious, and I didn't really know my place or where I fit in.

  Meaghan Rath

  School, Self, People

  "Get to Know Being Human's Meaghan Rath". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. March 3, 2011.

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• We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Successful, Intelligent, Needs

  Lincoln Steffens (1931). “The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens”, p.788, Heyday

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• The idea of suicide, understandable as it is, does not seem commendable to me. We live in order to gain the greatest possible amount of spiritual development and self-awareness. As long as life is possible, even if only in a minimal degree, you should hang onto it, in order to scoop it up for the purpose of conscious development. To interrupt life before its time is to bring to a standstill an experiment which we have not set up. We have found ourselves in the midst of it and must carry it through to the end.

  Carl Jung

  Suicide, Spiritual, Self

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• It isn't possible to kill part of your “self” unless you kill yourself first. If you ruin your conscious personality, the so-called ego-personality, you deprive the self of its real goal, namely to become real itself. The goal of life is the realization of the self. If you kill yourself you abolish that will of the self to become real, but it may arrest your personal development inasmuch it is not explained. You ought to realise that suicide is murder, since after suicide there remains a corpse exactly as with any ordinary murder. Only it is yourself that has been killed.

  Carl Jung

  Suicide, Real, Self

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• The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.

  David Mamet

  Past, Mind, Obvious

  David Mamet (1991). “On Directing Film”, Penguin Group USA

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• A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

  Gertrude Stein

  Generations, Firsts, Creator

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “PICASSO: Cubism and Its Impact”, p.26, e-artnow

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• 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.

  Susan Rice

  White, Guy, Facts

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• Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to lead. Leading it the best I can - that's how I buy the ticket to where I want to be.

  Dean Koontz

  Suicide, Want, Littles

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.87, Bantam

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• Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood.

  Edith Wharton

  Motherhood, Self, Charity

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1841, Delphi Classics

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• The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Men, Soul, Proud

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.47, Sahitya Akademi

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• A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Office, Clerks

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.68, Vintage

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• Weeks go by, and I dont paint until finally I cant stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost dont want to talk about it, because I dont want to become self-conscious about it, but perhaps I create these little crises as a kind of a secret strategy to push myself.

  Gerhard Richter

  Self, Secret, Want

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