Consciously Quotes

A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously. - Andy Samberg

A new form will always seem more or less an absence of any form at all, since it is unconsciously judged by reference to the consecrated forms. - Alain Robbe Grillet

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries. - Thomas Mann

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action. - Jawaharlal Nehru

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. - Aldous Huxley

[The answer, usually, is no. Wisdom is a quality that defies easy definition but psychologists who study aging have found that some of its components - judgment, emotional regulation - do improve with age in most people, consciously or not.] Of course there is a subset of people out there who are sitting in their rocking chairs, spewing hate, but my guess is that these people weren't very pleasant to begin with... The reality is that the data are fairly convincing that people as they get older become more positive and less self-absorbed. - James Pennebaker

[Is he unconsciously drawn to survival stories?] You should ask my psychiatrist, if I had one... But the answer is maybe. Any kind of survival is a subject I enjoy dealing with. - Roman Polanski

[In 1963, the US believed that China might have] expansionist designs... the United States knows the Chinese leadership is consciously pragmatic and is eager to avoid the perception of being expansionist. - Sugata Bose

[He says the ordeal led to] denial, repression, accommodation and disassociation ... subconsciously repressed. - Michael Jackson

[But, he says,] I listened to the Grieg and said, 'OK, that's great music' and never listened to it again. ... but they are not direct. I consciously decided what comes out, comes out. - Douglas Levine