“Animals don't even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. ... The conscious impulse to change one's appearance is found only among humans.” TryingHumansLooksDifferentFoundAnimalConsciousAppearanceScalesAuthenticityImpulseShellsSpine Book:Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces Source: Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces
“To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking, "My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?"” ThinkingLooksSelfFilmHugeConsciousEarsCamerasAppearanceUselessAngleSelf ConsciousUseless Life Author:Anna Kendrick
“I'm not incredibly self-conscious. I don't really feel like I walk around making fashion or my appearance the most important thing in the world. It's certainly not the way that I live my life. I'm not really sure how the magazines perceive me because I don't read them.” WorldWayFeelsImportantSelfWalksFashionConsciousImportant ThingsAppearanceMagazinesPerceiveLiving My LifeSelf ConsciousI Live My Life Author:Jessica Alba
“To translate kinesics or paralinguistic messages into words is likely to introduce gross falsification due not merely to the human propensity for trying to falsify statements about "feelings" and relationship and to the distortions which arise whenever the products of one system of coding are dissected onto the premises of another, but especially to the fact that all such translation must give to the more or less unconscious and involuntary message the appearance of conscious intent.” GivingTryingHumansFactsFeelingsProductsMessagesConsciousAppearanceDuesAriseStatementsUnconsciousIntroducingTranslateGrossTranslationsPremisesDistortionPropensityInvoluntaryFalsification Author:Greg Bear
“Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the scope of these answers). How would you like to die? Fully conscious, and either fighting or reciting (or fooling around). What do you most dislike about your appearance? The way in which it makes former admirers search for neutral words.” WayDiesFightingLanguageNaturalAbilityAnswersMastersConsciousAppearanceFormerDislikeScopeAdmirerRecitingNatural GiftsFooling Around Book:Hitch-22: A Memoir Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir
“…Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to witness that marring. If they were, they’d become self-conscious and be unable to concentrate on improving themselves.” IfsWaySelfActionConsciousAppearanceWitnessImprovingSelf Conscious Book:What Dreams May Come: A Novel Source: What Dreams May Come: A Novel
“Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images… It is not a conscious recording of the day’s experiences ‘freshly and with the appearance of reality’… The writer of imagination would find himself released from observing things for the purpose of writing them down later. He would be there to enjoy, to taste, to engage the free world, not a world which he carries like a bag of food, always fearful lest he drop something or someone get more than he.” WorldWritingRealityWould BePurposeEnjoyImaginationTasteConsciousAppearanceBagsCarrieFearfulObservingSimileFree WorldDaily ExperiencePurpose Of Writing Author:William Carlos Williams