“The nice thing about a series is you can end on cliffhangers all the time. You can be like, 'You know what? Here we go, this person just died, end of book.' And with the end of the series, you're very conscious of all the plotlines that were left hanging. There's a balance there to wrap those up but still leave it exciting.” KnowsPersonsStillsBookEndsLeftNiceLike YouBalanceConsciousExcitingDiedSeriesWrapsNice ThingsCliffhangerLeft Hanging Author:Richelle Mead
“People got a little too self-conscious about the techniques that go into recording because sometimes, if you sing too well in tune, people accuse you of auto-tuning. It's like you have to use auto-detuning or something.” PeopleIfsWellsLittlesSelfSometimesUseLike YouConsciousTechniqueTunesSelf ConsciousTuning Author:Todd Rundgren
“It isn't like we don't work with you because you are white, or not want anything to do with you. It is more like you have to check your privileges, the whites have the responsibility to put themselves at attention with the form they operate in with people of color and try to always lay out that pattern to connect with people and say, "I am conscious of my privileges and I am accounting for myself."” PeopleWantTryingFormWhiteAttentionResponsibilityColorLike YouConsciousLaysPrivilegePatternsChecksAccounting Author:Bocafloja
“There was things just like not being able to date or - I'm talking like 15, 16 - like just certain things that my friends started to do. Like, they started to get phone calls from girls or like, you know, go and hang out 10, 11 at night, kind of going to the movies. There were just certain things that - it's not that I couldn't do all of those things. It's just that every choice was really deliberate and conscious and thought out and sort of balanced against the religion in a way where I felt - I wasn't necessarily trying to convert at 12 like [my mother] was.” KnowsWayTryingKindAbleMotherNightCertainChoicesGirlFeltTalkingLike YouConsciousMy FriendsPhonesHanging OutBalancedDeliberatePhone Calls Author:Mahershala Ali
“Every time I sit down and write I got to put something conscious in there. It's like I got a job now. They say that for those that know you got to deal in equality. If you know and you don't speak on it and don't apply it, it's like you're the worst hypocrite. I feel I got a job to do, being that I study so much and I believe in Allah like I do, I feel like I got to spread the word.” IfsKnowsFeelsWritingBelieveJobsSpeakI BelieveDealsStudyWorstLike YouConsciousDown AndI Believe InSpreadHypocriteBelieve In Allah Author:Rakim
“When you coach and teach leadership, most people think about them. It's like you're the leader and how do you influence them. Clearly, leaders do take their followers, their flock, their enterprise, their business - whatever - hopefully to a better place. But I think the foundation of what makes really great leaders is they lead themselves, and they're conscious about knowing themselves and coaching and leading themselves in a very profound way. The simplest of us talk to ourselves. The question is, "Do we really lead ourselves?"” PeopleThinkingLeaderTeachInfluenceLike YouConsciousProfoundCoachesHopefullyCoachingEnterpriseReally GreatGreat Leader Author:Les Wexner
“One of the things meditation gives you is creativity because creativity really comes from the subconscious brain - intuition, imagination - so it's not like you can go there and say, I'm going to go be creative now. Maybe you can, but the real way you get creativity is, you know, you're taking a hot shower and great ideas come to you from the subconscious. Essentially, meditation opens a pipeline between the conscious and the subconscious.” GivingRealImaginationBrainCreativityCreativeMeditationLike YouConsciousHotIntuitionSubconsciousBe CreativeGreat Idea Author:Ray Dalio
“Bliss - a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious - lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (Tax Returns, Televised Golf) and, in waves, a boredom like you’ve never known will wash over you and just about kill you. Ride these out, and it’s like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Instant bliss in every atom.” JoyLyingSidesBlackWaterWhitePayAttentionKnownAliveColorLike YouReturnGratitudeTaxesConsciousGolfWaveDesertBoredBlissInstantBoredomCrushOver YouAtomsBlack And WhiteTediousTax ReturnsJoy And Gratitude Author:David Foster Wallace
“I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'” SelfJobsLosesCareersIssuesTelevisionLike YouConsciousWeightRaisedSelf ConsciousLose Weight Author:Margaret Cho