Conscious Quotes - Page 38

• A state of consciousness is characteristically very transitory; an idea that is conscious now is no longer so a moment later, although it can become so again under certain conditions that are easily brought about.

  Sigmund Freud

  Ideas, Consciousness, Moments

  Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted the repression and maintains it is perceived as resistance during the work of analysis.

  Sigmund Freud

  Ideas, Analysis, Resistance

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

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• Thinking in pictures is, therefore, only a very incomplete form of becoming conscious. In some way, too, it stands nearer to unconscious processes than does thinking in words, and it is unquestionably older than the latter both ontogenetically and phylogenetically.

  Sigmund Freud

  Thinking, Doe, Way

  Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it seeks to avoid the unpleasure which would be produced by the liberation of the repressed.

  Sigmund Freud

  Ego, Doubt, Principles

  Sigmund Freud (2014). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• I'm from a very politically and socially conscious family. My mother always made a point of making us look at what was going on around us and take stock of our part in it.

  Dave Matthews

  Mother, Looks, Made

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• We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through understanding the nature of the creative process in the universe and having a sense of connection to it. So, that's conscious evolution.

  Deepak Chopra

  Compassion, Creative, Meditation

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• Right after 'Backspacer,' my best friend got killed tragically. Something happened to me then where I got super motivated. I had a shelf of all this unfinished music... So I just went to work and made a conscious decision that I was going to finish a bunch of stuff. Life's short.

  Jeff Ament

  Decision, My Best Friend, Stuff

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• All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy not planning.

  Imtiaz Ali

  Taken, Decision, Fruit

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• The intention of each lesson is getting you to recognize what you're doing, kinesthetically. Once you're conscious of it, you then can choose whether to continue doing the same thing or not.

  F. Matthias Alexander

  Lessons, Intention

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• Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Nice, Thinking, People

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• I've always been conscious of my weight.

  Leona Lewis

  Weight

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• If you're comfortable with someone, you feel creatively free. Whether it's a comedic scene or a dramatic one, you don't feel self-conscious because you feel safe with the people that you're around.

  Jane Levy

  Self, People, Safe

  Source: collider.com

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• 'm very conscious about how the viewing situation [of the Biennale] creates a situation for the viewer who feels pressured. I don't really have any concept of who looks at my work online. I don't think it's viewed that much online.

  Frances Stark

  Thinking, Looks, Online

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't watch anything I'm in. Not even on set. I won't go over to the monitor to watch what we've just shot. It's too terrible. I think I'm just very self-conscious.

  Eva Green

  Thinking, Self, Watches

  "Eva Green Speaks Out About Nipplegate". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. August 6, 2014.

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• From an early age I loved horror movies. I read books about horror, cops, firemen and military. Over the course of the years I started to see that there's a reality to this. The first movie I was really conscious of seeing was THE EXORCIST and I don't know if any of you have seen that but it scared the sh*t out of me. It really frightened me.

  Ralph Sarchie

  Military, Book, Reality

  Source: collider.com

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• There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy. If I'm in it and if there's a scene that has a great set-up, I will go as far as somebody will let me.

  Ari Graynor

  Self, Comedy, Scene

  Source: collider.com

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• My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to refine them, to help in the rehearsal, or do anything. I was hardly conscious of what was going on except during the hours of the day when I was actually writing ... and that was with the aid of speed.

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, Play, Rehearsal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm much more conscious of historical events since the '60s. In the '60s, I was insulated by my own addictions, my own lifestyle, from what was going on in the world. After I recovered I was amazed at certain people who had died. I hadn't noticed that they had gone. Not friends ... I'm talking about public figures who had passed away.

  Tennessee Williams

  Talking, Addiction, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• They're [children] less forgiving. You have to be very conscious of the fact that they're not going to just accept things; they're going to question. They're going to move around if you bore them. They'll actually leave. So you really have to be on your toes.

  Linda Woolverton

  Children, Moving, Forgiving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I enjoy doing scenes where I don't wear make-up and I can be raw. I like that. I feel like it's easier to act. When I have to have make-up on, I feel like I'm expected to look a certain way, and then it's harder to act because I'm more self-conscious.

  Ivana Milicevic

  Self, Looks, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I made a conscious choice to turn down some movies that were action-based, so that I could direct Road to Paloma and show that side.

  Jason Momoa

  Choices, Sides, Action

  Source: collider.com

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• I should say that I'm not conscious of any particular style or any particular literary device when I am writing. I have written 22 books, and they are all very different. I have tried all kinds of genres.

  Isabel Allende

  Book, Writing, Style

  "Isabel Allende: Despite Terrorism, the World Is a Better Place Now Than Ever Before". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious. BOTH SIDES of the artist's personality must play their part.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Order, Play

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.197, Univ of California Press

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• ...if we allow ourselves contemplative time in nature-whether it's gardening, going for a walk with the dog, or being in the heart of the southern Utah wilderness-then we can hear the voice of our conscience. If we listen to that voice, it asks us to be conscious. And if we become conscious we choose to live lives of consequence.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Dog, Live Life, Heart

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• In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.

  Adrienne Rich

  Cutting, Light, Self

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