“The moment in which the spirit meets death is perhaps like the moment in which it is embraced in sleep. I suppose it never happened to any one to be conscious of the immediate transition from the waking to the sleeping state.” StatesMomentsDeathSpiritSleepHappenedConsciousTransitionWaking Book:A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected
“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.” ThinkingTryingCertainDecisionWatchesHappenedHealthyConsciousAgreeDiets Author:Jayne Middlemiss
“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.” MadeStuffDecisionHappenedConsciousBunchMotivatedShelvesMy Best FriendUnfinished Author:Jeff Ament
“I tend to agree with my husband, that to continue the conversation about something that is an important topic, particularly now, which is that of gun control, through his narrative, which is actually what's happened, I don't think it was a conscious decision of, "That's what we're going to do," but that's what seems to have happened, and that's not a bad thing.” ThinkingImportantSeemsDecisionHappenedHusbandConversationConsciousGunAgreeNarrativeMy HusbandBad ThingsGun ControlTopics Author:Katey Sagal
“I suppose in the end what shift occurred - is that at Yale I began to become more materially and conceptually aware of the mechanisms that gave rise to those types of patterns and paintings. And so the copying that happened in the childhood was a much more conscious type of copying in later years.” YearsEndsHappenedChildhoodPaintingTypeConsciousPatternsMechanismCopyingYale Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds.” KnowsWritingMindHumansChoicesReadingWonderHappenedShareConsciousUnconsciousHuman MindFascinatedWriting And ReadingConscious And Unconscious Author:Anne Roiphe
“I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the next ball might be a out-swinger, but when it's coming at you you realize it's an in-swinger... so literally, you've played two balls.” FeelsMindTwoMightHappensNextRealizingHappenedConsciousBallsMessConscious Mind Author:Sachin Tendulkar