Conscious Quotes - Page 36

• I also think swimmers are pretty fashion conscious and mos aren't always the best accessory to be rocking. Haha.

  James Magnussen

  Fashion, Thinking, Accessories

  "James Magnussen Movember Interview". Interview with Jamie Watt, au.askmen.com.

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• When I was born, the umbilical cord came wrapped around my neck, so when I came out, I wasn't breathing. The cord had cut off my oxygen - not the entire time, just at the end, when my mom was giving birth. When I came out, I wasn't conscious, so they had to work on bringing me back. It was a crazy moment.

  LaMarcus Aldridge

  Mom, Crazy, Cutting

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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• I'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.

  Herbie Hancock

  Ideas, Challenges, Trying

  "Jazz icon Herbie Hancock". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 29, 2011.

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• In a way, I feel I have enough tools and knowledge now that when I build it has a very specific agency that's very conscious. It's no longer speculative; it's really constructed. I'm very interested in how that consciousness, about how I am producing, is working within different conditions. It's like growing up.

  David Adjaye

  Growing Up, Agency, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned has been on the field.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Fields, Documentaries, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Believe, Men, Causes

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.99, Commodius Vicus

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• To live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky

  R. S. Thomas

  Blood, Sky, Wales

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.45, Hachette UK

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• There is a certain point of unity within the self, and between the self and its world, certain complicity and magnetic mating, a certain harmony, that conscious mind and will cannot direct. Perhaps analysis and the separate mastery of each element are required before the instincts are ready to assume command, but only at first. Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.

  Michael Novak

  Reality, Discovery, Self

  Michael Novak (1993). “The Joy of Sports: End Zones, Bases, Baskets, Balls, and the Consecration of the American Spirit”, p.172, Rowman & Littlefield

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• We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers. It is reptile and sensual, and perhaps cannot be wholly expelled; like the worms which, even in life and health, occupy our bodies. Possibly we may withdraw from it, but never change its nature. I fear that it may enjoy a certain health of its own; that we may be well, yet not pure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Health, Animal, Sensual

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.157, Xist Publishing

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• Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots; educated, conscious and honourable part of the same society hate and refuse monarchs, tyrants, oppressors and any kind of autocrats!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Hate, Tyrants

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• Whenever I start working on a song, I immediately try to forget everything, to empty my head. I try to approach it like,“This is the first time I've ever played a guitar. What am I going to do?”. That's one way of getting straight through the conscious mind into the subconscious layer where the true creative spirit lies.

  Edge

  Song, Lying, Guitar

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• Leadership Is Performance. You Have To Be Conscious Of Your Behavior, Because Everyone Else Is.

  Carly Fiorina

  Behavior, Performances

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• Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion) and the learned skills of the conscious mind.

  Mary Oliver

  Writing, Heart, Skills

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Thinking, Talent, Moments

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• We want to worship a living God. I have not seen anything but God all my life, nor have you... He is everywhere, saying, "I am." The moment you feel "I am," you are conscious of Existence. Where shall we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Want, Worship

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• Of course there's conscious manipulation! Everything about a movie is manipulation ... If you like it, it's an interpretation. If you don't like it, it's a lie - but everything about these movies is a distortion."

  Frederick Wiseman

  Lying, Manipulation, You Like It

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• The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious and ... that he allows himself to be moved by it. [Others] have too much rationality, too much cerebrum to obey it [but] Hitler listens.

  Carl Jung

  Secret, Too Much, Exceptional

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• If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it in forms whose interrelashionships are not accessible to our conscious thought but we are intuitively recognized as meaningful, we are doing art.

  Albert Einstein

  Meaningful, Art, Logic

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• I use [Heraclitus' discovery of] enantiodromia for the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. This characteristic phenomenon practically always occurs when an extreme, onesided tendency dominates conscious life; in time an equally powerful counterposition is built up, which first inhibits the conscious performance and subsequently breaks through the conscious control.

  Carl Jung

  Powerful, Discovery, Opposites

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.489, Routledge

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• Even trees are creative, rocks are creative. You are man, the very culmination of this existence. You are at the top, you are conscious. Never think with wrong beliefs, and never be attached to wrong beliefs, that you are uncreative.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Thinking, Rocks

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• We preach to men as if they were conscious they were dying sinners, they are not; they are having a good time.

  Oswald Chambers

  Men, Dying, Good Times

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• We talked about how easy it was to make the mistake of anthropomorphizing animals, and projecting our own feelings and perceptions on to them, where they were inappropriate and didn't fit. We simply had no idea what it was like being an extremely large lizard, and neither for that matter did the lizard, because it was not self-conscious about being an extremely large lizard, it just got on with the business of being one. To react with revulsion to its behavior was to make the mistake of applying criteria that are only appropriate to the business of being human.

  Douglas Adams

  Mistake, Animal, Self

  "Last Chance to See". Book by Douglas Adams, 1990.

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• My grandfather, mother and father were gifted verbally, and my mother passed that along to me. She always made sure I was conscious of language and words.

  George Carlin

  Mother, Father, Language

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• One have our biggest challenges if making sure that we are staying true to the mission that we feel called to do, which is writing songs for the church and helping the church connect with God. While the global ministry grows and the influence has been blessed in an amazing way, we are really conscious about staying focused on the families that come into our church every weekend and making sure that we're meeting their needs for whatever season they're in.

  Reuben Morgan

  Song, Blessed, Writing

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Having lots of members of my family who were in ministry in one form or another, I suppose it shouldn't be surprising that at quite an early age, I was very, very conscious personally of the love of God.

  N. T. Wright

  Age, Ministry, God Love

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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