Conscious Quotations | Page 4

It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.

I think there was a conscious decision to give our show a spare look.

I think Steve made a very conscious decision that he wanted to get his agenda approved and the only way he could get a fair hearing was electing a Democratic legislature.

Jeremy is very conscious of the responsibilities of the setter position. He is looking forward to the opportunity of being in that role full-time.

I write the story as it comes to me - YA is my natural voice, not a conscious choice.

Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.

I think Elvis loved his fans-I think that's why they loved him and still love him. Fans are very conscious and sensitive to the fact that performers love them.

People are definitely being more conscious of what they carry. Even after they've checked their luggage, they may have to carry it to a security checkpoint.

Our scheme guaranteeing free travel for elderly and disabled people on local bus services continues to be hugely successful. Nevertheless, we are conscious it cannot benefit people who are not able to use even low-floor buses because of the nature or severity of their disability. This project will not only immediately improve access for these passengers, it will also allow us to test the extent to which community transport is able to meet the transport needs of persons who cannot use conventional buses.

Our sales results reflect our conscious strategy to reduce our reliance on the less profitable daily rental portion of our fleet business and focus our efforts to grow the retail side of the business.

Reminded of what a diet really is, I began eating more slowly, being more conscious of when I was full. I started to enjoy my buckwheat bread with goat cheese and pureed butternut-squash soup as a response to real hunger.

People into hard sciences, neurophysiology, often ignore a core philosophical question: 'What is the relationship between our unique, inner experience of conscious awareness and material substance?' The answer is: We don't know, and some people are so terrified to say, 'I don't know.'

Statistics tell us that if you don't follow regulations, then you will have an accident. In order to achieve this type of record, everyone has to work together. ? We need to be very conscious of where we're at with this milestone. ? This is not something that's easily achieved. It takes a tremendous amount of effort, and a tremendous change in what you're doing (in order to make it safe).

Terry was conscious of all those things and wanted to tell the story as he had read it in the history books.

Like many stories, 'Harry Potter' is making an appeal to kids' desire for independence and their anxiety about it. ... It may not be a conscious effort, but seasoned story tellers develop a certain instinct for what will fascinate.

I was very conscious that you don't get many opportunities in life and we had an opportunity,

I was very conscious of (players') minutes and in the end I was very conscious of health. Today is not a good barometer to judge us.

I think everybody is making a conscious effort to go out and get it done on the defensive end. We hang our hats on the defensive end, being able to get stops and forcing teams to take tough shots.

I think I can kind of be an instrument in my workplace to help people get a little more conscious about recycling.

I think he's more conscious of trying to pitch to the weakness of the hitter rather than just going after everybody the same way. That's pretty much what he did when he first came over.

I think he became more conscious of what he needed to do to improve his game. Had he been doing this two years ago, we'd be wondering where he'd be drafted (in the NBA), not if.

I think I was just really conscious of trying to get the ball gone quick. Because of that, I got off my game a little bit.

Jonathan is a very bright kid, and he is very conscious about his academics as well as his relationship with the youth in the community. He knows what it takes to be good on and off the court, and this award is tribute to his hard work.

Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life... That's a superpower I've been very conscious of developing. I started at the same level as everybody else, and then I just listened to more music and talked to myself until it was an actual superpower I could pull out on special occasions.

To save the seas, we can eat sustainably and be conscious of the seafood we eat.

(The APR) has made everyone more conscious of what they're doing.

That was the most conscious I've been (of position) driving a car since this race last year.

That was a good test right there. I was telling Dusty, you never really know. You come out here and run, and you're conscious of it. When you're in the game, that's when the test comes, and I feel good.

That was probably a conscious effort. But we're not really trying to sell out; it's not an effort to go mainstream. It's a natural evolution.

That's the perils of pool play. You have to be conscious of not falling too far behind and having big run differentials. You have to continue to grind.

I was really conscious when I went down there that I needed to gain the respect of my new team mates. Respect is a really big thing in rugby. That is what spurred me on to improve my game.

I wasn't that shocked, I had heard the rumors that something could happen, so it wasn't out of the blue. I think that if Billy were going to trade me, he was going to make a conscious effort to trade me somewhere where my family would be happy. And there isn't another place that I'd rather be traded to than Atlanta.

Whole Foods Market tries to embody all of the principles of conscious capitalism all the time, but like any person or company, we sometimes fall short.

Wild Jack made a conscious decision to make the final table open only to feeder satellite winners. For as little as $11 or $22, a player will win a poker trip worth over $3,000. And with nominal buy-in fees, we plan on seeing a lot of our regulars, as well as newcomers who find poker boot camps appealing.

We haven't rebounded well, with the exception of the first two games, all year. Guys have to make a conscious effort to get in there and be hungry for the basketball.

You can better embrace life, you can enjoy it more, when you are conscious that it will end. You bite life.

We are bidding farewell to the best one among us, fully conscious of his greatness. There is no better place that this square for us to say our goodbye. Let us do it in a dignified manner -- let us shout his name as one.

We're both dealing with our hormones at the same time. On one hand, he keeps me young. On the other, he makes me conscious of how I'm changing.

We're definitely hoping for that. And I feel like especially Ryan made more of a conscious effort than I think maybe he needed to kind of get away from that (pop-punk sound).

We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.

We've made the conscious decision that we'd rather talk to 10,000 new people a day than the same 200 subscribers every day. It is a way of making more money, but at the end of the day, you're not reaching as many people.

We've made a conscious effort to show students where the (external) cameras are and the kinds of shots they take,

We've made a conscious decision, at the request of the Iraqis, to stand back during this pilgrimage period,

We're very well aware that he was off the field too much in those situations. One thing that we have to be conscious of as we go is that doesn't happen again. We've got to rotate in our nickel situations.

To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

You know how it's almost impossible for kids to not say what they think? That's me. I have to make the conscious effort to be situationally appropriate.

You know it's there, but you don't really see it. Guys don't discuss it or talk about it much. It's something you have little control over. I'm sure some guys are conscious of it and aware of it, but until it happens, you can't do anything about it.

Understand that all battles are waged on an unconscious level before they are begun on the conscious one, and this battle is no different. The power structure wishes us to believe that the only options available are those which they present to us, we know this is simply not true, and therefore we must redefine the terrain of this conflict, and clearly, it is a conflict of worldviews and agendas.

We made a very conscious decision that we weren't going to do giveaways for the sake of doing giveaways. We were only going to give away high quality or high value items.

The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.

we all need to be conscious of meeting the needs of the community and not the school.

Well, natural selection was an idea that Darwin developed by analogy with conscious human selection. That's where he got the idea from.

When they beat us earlier in the year by 11, they controlled the boards. We made a conscious effort to get bodies on people.

Whereas Asian demand for US bonds is unlikely to end any time soon as a conscious policy decision, the reversal of petrodollars from the US bond market remains the greatest threat to the dollar in 2006.

When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative ''success mechanism'' within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or ''willpower.''

We didn't play with the same amount of energy in the second half, and they made a conscious effort to go inside. When we lose leads, you can always point to us not playing with enough intensity.

We are conscious that the data will need to weaken significantly from current levels before the committee would feel comfortable with easing policy.

We are conscious of the potential of the SMB market from the various studies and statistics. We want to deliver enterprise class value to SMBs. Fundamentally we do not believe that the requirements of a Rs 20 crore-organization are different from a Rs 200 crore-organization. The question is, how we can make the same technology available to a mid market customer so that some of his concerns and pain points are addressed better. SMBs, because of lesser employees, may not have the manpower to address some of the IT areas.

We are conscious of the abject poverty that so many countries and individuals face. We're being driven forward by the urgent need to act,

We had some good moments of team defense, but there's nothing really to get too excited about, ... I thought the big guys really tried. They're making a conscious effort to improve.

We, African-Americans, need to be more conscious of Africa. Africa will not get out of its economic hole until African-Americans start working with Africa. We've got the money. We need to go back home to our people and free them from their misery and suffering.

The demand for coal led us to make a conscious decision to place coal cars at the very heart of our business.

There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

What if we truly believed there is a God -- a beneficent order to things, a force that's holding things together without our conscious control? What if we could see, in our daily lives, the working of that force? What if we believed it loved us somehow, and cared for us, and protected us? What if we believed we could afford to relax?

Those who search for truth are too conscious of the maze to be hard on others.

It isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying.

It was weird to be in a movie that's very clearly a period piece [like Killing Reagan], but that's about a time that's within my own memory. That's really weird. And conscious memory, not just vague.

I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious...

The more conscious I am of the work God has yet to do in me, the less critical I am about what he has yet to do in you

I never make conscious decisions.

The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.

Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.

There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.

The true unconscious is the well-head, the fountain of real motivity. The sex of which Adam and Eve became conscious derived fromthe very God who bade them be not conscious of it.

It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive, day in and day out,

Stay conscious and alive, day in and day out.

The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties.

Nobody ever arrives at a very big idea through a conscious, rational thought process. It comes from your unconscious.

The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.

Part of being a conscious human being, is having an intention. And if you put an intention into whatever you do, it’s definitely going to be more satisfying in the end

Conscious evolution begins as we take responsibility for clearing our own obstructions.

We understand very clearly what's at stake. The president made a conscious decision to cater to the base and left Middle America out in the cold.

We understand the rescue workers were able to stay in contact with the workers. They knew at least they were conscious and stable.

We're trying to make employees more conscious of what they are buying.

We knew online dating even just two, three years ago, had some stigmas attached to it, ... So we made a very conscious decision to invest heavily in mainstream advertising, like television, radio and outdoor advertising. Now we just wish those who think it's OK to give it a try.

We knew making that commitment to take the band down to Houston via airfare would probably put us a shade over budget. That was a conscious decision we made because we were trying to build up our reputation.

We're particularly conscious of the need to help spouses. Usually the diplomats will be able to speak the language, whereas spouses might not. So it can be a very isolating experience. So we do try to give a lot of support through what we call community liaison officers.

We think the industry has made a problem for itself by focusing too much on getting technology out the door and getting it to the government. We made a conscious decision early on to focus on creating a viable commercial product.

This year, we are certainly creating some pressure on the bottom line by this move in the US to broadband. That's a conscious decision. It is a classic short-term versus long-term trade-off.

Trust your hunches.... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

When you play with a lead you have to be patient and involve your teammates. I saw a conscious effort on the part of everyone to make the extra pass.

We made a conscious effort to not make mistakes at the end, just play basketball and defensively we wanted to get some stops.

We made a conscious effort and basically stood up and grabbed the bull by the horns and said, 'We're going to be different, we're going to be better. It all started with the attitude of the players. We felt like we didn't play together as a football team (last year). We stepped in and people bought into what we were trying to get done. ... The guys who didn't buy in aren't here anymore.

We made a conscious decision to make BMX the recreation outlet for our family. For us, it's a great opportunity for the kids to experience good teamwork, sportsmanship and get them together.

We made a conscious decision to become more involved politically. It's kind of been an evolution of the process in which we recognized that not necessarily to get a seat at the table but to get someone's ear, to be able to be an influencer, if you would, to support candidates that support our objectives for our customers, that we were going to have to be more involved.

We made a conscious decision early on that she should not be involved in the politics. She should be involved as the first lady, which is a whole other category, ... Also, it makes it easier for her that she may believe differently than I do, coming from her family background and all that.

We've got to get him a lot more conscious of playing without fouling.

We are even more conscious of the economic improvement in Canada, and of the political, social and spiritual background that has made this possible.

Two of the last three games that we won were because of our bench, and (Sunday) night, our bench got us in the game. We say we're going to make a very conscious effort to play them, create a role for them, create a niche, create an identity, and I think that's what we've done.

When someone makes the conscious decision to flee the police at a high rate of speed and are endangering members of the public, they have to be held accountable for their actions, whether or not it results in severe physical injury.