Conscious Quotes

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

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.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.

On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class.

I watch what I eat obviously. I'm not a regular gym-goer but I'm conscious of it.

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

When you're a child you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.

I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it.

Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer.

My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.

I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.

People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

In a lot of areas of my life, particularly in my teenage years, I began to think about the world, and to think about the universe as being a part of my conscious everyday life.

I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.

It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.

Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.