Conscious Quotes - Page 31

• Spirituality is nothing more than the art of paying attention. When I give my whole heart and mind to a task such as singing - life's worry, suffering, or conflicts don't exist in that moment. Additionally, singing is about breath work, which is the most essential practice to living a conscious & healthy life.

  Jason Mraz

  Art, Practice, Giving

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 11, 2014.

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• I think great art goes beyond the control of the artist. In some ways, art often makes itself and reveals things about that artist that maybe the artist is not fully conscious of.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  Art, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sad, Men, Animal

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.6, Penguin UK

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• Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Wisdom, Block

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.28, Penguin

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• What we do, as a conscious species, is set markers for ourselves. Once we reach one marker, we advance to the next.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Next, Consciousness, Species

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• With the arrival of humans, it has been said, the universe has suddenly become conscious of itself. This, truly, it the greatest mystery of all.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Mystery, Consciousness, Said

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• What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable.

  William H. Macy

  Self, Actors, Gigs

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I do have a very conscious desire not to be academic. I'm antiacademic. I hate jargon. I hate that sort of pretension. I am a person who [commits] breaches of decorum - not in private life, but in my work. They are part of my mode of operation. That kind of playfulness is part of my nature in general. The paradox that, in a way, to take something very seriously, you can't always be serious about it.

  William H. Gass

  Hate, Desire, Jargon

  Interview with Stephen Schenkenberg, www.believermag.com. November, 2005.

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• I was always, as a younger actress, very conscious of not wanting to act sexy. I didn't see myself like that. But I think as a woman, you get older, you feel more confident in your sexuality. You're not as intimidated by it, not as embarrassed by it.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Sexy, Thinking, Actresses

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• You're saying no ninety-seven times out of a hundred, and most founders find they have to make a very conscious effort to do this.

  Sam Altman

  Effort, Saying No, Seven

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• My childhood memories reside somewhere in my subconscious part of my brain. Somehow I feel that my subconscious part creates far more interesting things than my conscious part can ever dream of.

  Akram Khan

  Dream, Memories, Interesting

  Source: run-riot.com

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• I love to read about music and about art, but I don't try and take things about mythology or guidelines as to how I'm to behave as an artist. It's the realm of intellectual debate. Actually, more and more my direction is trying to get further away from being self-conscious of what the parameters are of the mainstream, where it intersects with the underground.

  Emily Haines

  Art, Self, Intellectual

  Source: www.sfcritic.com

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• I have always been conscious of the importance and the strength of nationalism, and this has led me straight to the acknowledgment of the nationalism of the Palestinian people.

  Uri Avnery

  People, Importance, Palestinian

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Effort, Challenges

  Bill Gates' Commencement Address at Harvard University in in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

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• I made a conscious decision to take my life and career in a different direction. I started working on a play, and also, by attending Burning Man for several years, I was incredibly stimulated by the art there. I increasingly wanted to be a part of it, and focused on what I wanted to say as an artist.

  Scott Cohen

  Art, Men, Play

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• As an artist I write about the world I want to live in. And as a musician and someone who is in the public eye, I think you have this responsibility to influence people. So I try influence people to live from their heart and make conscious decisions , and I try just inspire people to make positive change. That's purely the reason I do it. I want to see the world get better, you know?

  Brett Dennen

  Writing, Heart, Eye

  Source: www.tntechoracle.com

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• Once you get into fitness you do notice your diet and notice that certain foods don't quite agree with you. I don't think it was a conscious decision, I think it organically happened over time, but I do watch what I eat and try to eat healthy.

  Jayne Middlemiss

  Thinking, Decision, Healthy

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• So much of the writing is not conscious, in the sense that it's not calculated. I remember in film school we had so many studies with big fancy words where you could dissect a movie and make charts of all of the characters' complicated inner relations and themes and what does this mean? And it's overwhelming as a student. It's great for a student, but as a writer, it's paralyzing.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Writing, School, Character

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We first became conscious of the plane publicly on a Monday. I thought then by the weekend it would be done. But then the Chinese military, the defense minister made a statement saying that if there was no apology from the United States, the Chinese military and the Chinese people would never understand. No reference to the government or the Communist Party, and that obviously presented an internal problem to the Chinese leadership, which was travelling at that moment.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Monday, Military, Party

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that affects the writing.

  Josh Radnor

  Writing, Mean, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• Once a person has taken their life, in the inner realms, the suicide will repeat automatically the feelings of despair and fear which preceded his self murder, and go through the act and the death struggle time after time with ghastly persistence... They remain conscious - often entangled in the final scene of the earth life for a very long time, unaware that they have lost the physical body.

  Annie Besant

  Suicide, Struggle, Taken

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• Its taken 14 billion years for matter to gain the capacity to become conscious of itself. If this is true, it wouldn't make any sense that the whole point of enlightenment would be to escape from the whole process at the very instant that the universe is beginning to awaken to itself.

  Andrew Cohen

  Life, Taken, Years

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• In an evolutionary context, the goal of the spiritual life is not peace; it's perpetual development. Evolutionary enlightenment is about the ecstasy that compels us to create the future. And it's not a future that's going to unfold by itself while we go back to sleep. It's a future that we forge the hard way through direct, conscious, intentional engagement with the life-process itself.

  Andrew Cohen

  Spiritual, Sleep, Goal

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• A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning the main aim of his life.

  Samuel Butler

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Men

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4240, Delphi Classics

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• Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas, that are there, 'tis past doubt, that Men have in their Minds several Ideas, such as are those expressed by the words, Whiteness, Hardness, Sweetness, Thinking, Motion, Man, Elephant, Army, Drunkenness, and others: It is in the first place then to be inquired, How he comes by them? I know it is a received Doctrine, That Men have native Ideas, and original Characters stamped upon their Minds, in their very first Being.

  John Locke

  Character, Army, Science

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