“Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction is made between who we are and what we perceive.” ThinkingMadeSelfAbilityAwarenessBuddhismPerceptionConsciousPerceiveWho We AreDistinction Author:Frederick Lenz
“Consistency is nice, I think, personally. I like to be consistently happy. I like to be consistently more aware and more conscious of the truth.” ThinkingHappinessNiceBuddhismConsciousConsistentlyConsistency Author:Frederick Lenz
“Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are no longer alone, they have an investment in critical praise, and they think they must protect it. This leads to a diffusion of effort. The writer watches himself as he works. He grows more subtle and he pays for it by loss of organic dash.” PeopleThinkingWritingSelfEyeGrowsLossEffortPayWatchesWrittenHabitProtectConsciousPraiseInvestmentCriticalSubtleSelf ConsciousThrough The EyesDiffusion Book:Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler Source: Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler
“I've just become more conscious about how much I do drink and how often I want to have a drink and things like that. I think being conscious of it will help me to control the urges.” ThinkingWantHelpingSportsDrinkConsciousHelp MeUrges Author:Payne Stewart
“I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.” ThinkingRealSelfInterestingQualityAwarenessConsciousProseTragicSelf ConsciousConscious Awareness Author:China Mieville