“All of my fights have been exciting, even the lopsided ones. I am not concerned about taking a conscious approach to making my style more exciting. I think I go out there and fight in the manner that works best for me getting a win and it just so happens that it's good to watch.” ThinkingHas BeensHappensFightingWinningWatchesStyleApproachConsciousConcernedExciting Author:Chris Algieri
“The economy is changing everything. And men need to deal with that. Our response to it has been rage, stupidity and conscious avoidance of dealing with what the reality of being a man might be outside of empty concepts from ancient history.” MenNeedsHas BeensRealityMightDealsEconomyConsciousConceptsEmptyResponseAncientStupidityRageAvoidanceAncient HistoryChanging Everything Author:Stephen Marche
“I've always thought about gender, as someone who has been categorically "gender nonconforming" for my entire life, I was forced to think about it, but obviously I became more conscious of it as a social issue as I've gotten older. And as I've met more folks who are genderqueer or trans, it's been really enlightening to hear their stories, and it got me thinking about my own gender history.” ThinkingHas BeensStoriesSocialMy OwnIssuesMetsConsciousFolksGenderSocial IssuesEnlighteningTrans Author:Liz Prince
“I'm not an analytical person, so it's not my job to even know what the hell the thing meant. It's not my problem. I'm just supposed to do it. Sometimes, people have explained things to me that I might have been semi-conscious of or not.” PeopleKnowsPersonsHas BeensSometimesProblemMightJobsHellConsciousMight Have Been Author:Jim Jarmusch
“All morning, Spence has been a well-oiled machine of activity. Everyone doing her bit, quietly and efficiently. It's strange how deliberate people are after a death. All the indecision suddenly vanishes into clear, defined moments--changing the linens, choosing a dress or a hymn, the washing up, the muttering of prayers. All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.” PeopleWellsHas BeensMomentsBitsPrayerSimpleMorningClearDyingStrangeActivityConsciousMachinesDressesDefenseDefinedDeliberateWashingHymnsIndecisionLinenMutteringSmall SimpleWell Oiled Machines Book:A Great and Terrible Beauty Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“Over and above the various prejudices I acknowledge, the affinities I feel, the attractions I succumb to, the events which occur to me and to me alone- over and above a sum of movements I am conscious of making, of emotions I alone experience- I strive, in relation to other men, to discover the nature, if not the necessity, of my difference from them. Is it not precisely to the degree I become conscious of this difference that I shall recognize what I alone have been put on this earth to do, what unique message I alone may bear, so that I alone can answer for its fate?” IfsMenFeelsMayHas BeensEarthDifferencesAnswersEmotionFateEventsMovementBearsDegreesMessagesUniqueConsciousPrejudiceRelationStriveVariousAttractionAcknowledgeMe AloneAffinity Author:Andre Breton
“Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as it can, to continue to move. Such a stone, being conscious merely of its own endeavor and not at all indifferent, would believe itself to be completely free, and would think that it continued in motion solely because of its own wish. This is that human freedom, which all boast that they possess, and which consists solely in the fact, that men are conscious of their own desire, but are ignorant of the causes whereby that desire has been determined.” ThinkingMenShouldBelieveHumansHas BeensFactsMovingDesireWishCausesKnowingCapableConsciousStonesDeterminedIgnorantEndeavorContinuingIndifferentBoastHuman Freedom Author:Baruch Spinoza
“I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.” KnowsHas BeensLife IsMinesConsciousDiscoveryRecognitionMeaning Of LifeLife ExperienceUnwillingScientific Discovery Author:W. H. Auden
“To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting, operational conveniences. What remains when the conscious and functioning self has been erased is mankind's fundamental condition – irrational, violent, guilt-wracked, despairing, and mad.” FeelsHas BeensSelfHardCharacterLyingConditionsMankindPersonalityConsciousFundamentalsRemainsMadGuiltViolentExposedFadesIrrationalComfortingConvenience Author:Peter Straub
“No wonder the regulators decided on segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and self-conscious and confused and annoyed all the time.” Has BeensSelfFeelingsGirlWonderBoysConsciousDecidedAngryConfusedNightmareSegregationSelf ConsciousAnnoyedBoy And GirlRegulatorsFeeling Angry Author:Lauren Oliver
“It is what is left to him," said Will. "Do you not recall what he says to Lucie? 'If it had been possible... that you could have returned the love of the man you see before yourself- flung away, wasted, drunken, poor creature of misure as you know him to be- he would have been conscious this day and hour, in spite of his happiness, that he would bring you misery, bring you to sorrow and repetance, blight you, disgrace you, pull you down with him” IfsKnowsMenHas BeensSaidLeftHoursPoorSorrowCreaturesConsciousMiserySpiteThis DayRecallsDisgraceBlight Book:Clockwork Prince Source: Clockwork Prince
“Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fast-food religion, without any deep transformation of the self; and the result has been the spiritual disaster of "Christian" countries that tend to be as consumer-oriented, proud, warlike, racist, class conscious, and addictive as everybody else-and often more so, I'm afraid.” PeopleWellsHas BeensRealSelfCountryChristianSpiritualGivenPleasureResultsClassIssuesSecurityProudEgoConsciousTransformationDisasterVersionsConsumersRacistSincereFast Food Author:Richard Rohr
“Percy and Reyna occupied matching praeters' chairs on the dais, which made Percy self-conscious. It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bedsheet and a purple cape. "The camp is safe," Octavian continued. " I'll be the first to congragulate our heroes for bringing back the legion's eagle and so much Imperial gold! Truly we have been blessed with good fortune. But why do more? Why tempt fate?" "I'm glad you asked." Percy stood, taking the question as an opening. Octavian stammered, " I wasn't--" "--Part of the quest," Percy said. "Yes I know. And your'e wise to let me explain, since I was.” KnowsFirstsHas BeensMadeSaidSelfEasyWiseFateHeroSafeConsciousGoldLet MeBlessedFortuneGladOpeningChairsCampsQuestsPurpleEaglesGood FortuneSelf ConsciousLegionCapesMatchingReynaOctavian Author:Rick Riordan
“Worship has been misunderstood as something that arises from a feeling which "comes upon you," but it is vital that we understand that it is rooted in a conscious act of the will, to serve and obey the Lord Jesus Christ.” Has BeensFeelingsJesusChristLordWorshipConsciousJesus ChristAriseRootedMisunderstoodLord Jesus Christ Author:Graham Kendrick
“I'm also conscious of what this confidence that has been placed in me means. I'm going to the Games through the back door but I'm working everyday to exit through the main door!” MeanHas BeensGamesDoorsConsciousEverydayAthleteExitBack Doors Author:Benjamin Boukpeti
“... my life has been dedicated to my growth and evolution as a conscious being. ... becoming more aware of all that was taking place within me and around me; how my inner world affected my outer world and vice versa. I realized that the more awareness I have, the more choice I have in how I create or respond to the circumstances of my life.” WorldHas BeensChoicesGrowthAwarenessEvolutionBecomingCircumstancesConsciousVicesI RealizedAffectedDedicatedVice VersaBecoming MoreInner WorldOuter Worlds Author:Shakti Gawain
“The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.” Has BeensLanguageResultsLandOceanConsciousAncientUnconsciousProhibition Author:Italo Calvino
“In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that its growth keeps pace with a widening range of consciousness, and that each step forward is an extremely painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up the smallest particle of unconsciousness. He has a profound fear of the unknown. Ask anybody who has ever tried to introduce new ideas!” MenGivingMindHumansHas BeensIdeasFactsAsksGrowthConsciousnessStepsStudyGiving UpAchievementConsciousPainfulRangeHuman MindIntroducingAgain And AgainNew IdeasImpressedParticlesHatefulSteps ForwardMemories Dreams ReflectionsUnconsciousness Author:Carl Jung
“Complexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead a separate existence in the unconscious, being at all times ready to hinder or to reinforce the conscious intentions.” MindHas BeensScienceExistenceConsciousnessReadyConsciousIntentionComplexesAll TimeUnconsciousSplitsPsychicsHinderConscious Mind Book:Psychological Types Source: Psychological Types