Quotes About Consciousness

Bryan and I plan to use reusable diapers. There are a lot more options than before. We know it won't be as convenient, but we want to do it to help the planet.

Just because you want to wear organic cotton doesn't mean you have to spend an arm and a leg.

I myself did not officially become organic until 1997, although I was always hopeless at using chemicals.

It's insanely difficult for people to accept the extent to which we are biological organisms without agency.

What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?

You don't need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting right in your head - the most complex organization of matter in the entire universe. And here are we, feeling a little depressed, feeling like we're not getting where we need to be, when really you might be exactly where you need to be.

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original.

People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.

From the time we open our eyes, we live in a Steadicam form, and the only editing is when we talk about our lives or remember things.

I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

Modelling asks you to be conscious of your outer self, but with acting, you have to let that go.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

I've never been naturally fashion conscious. I'm the kind of person who sees a whole outfit in a magazine, runs out and buys it but looks like a clown.

Men aren't really conscious about what they wear. They are more interested in the fit and comfort and they don't want to wear anything that's too outlandish, so I think it will take me some time to start a menswear line.

If you see culture, to my mind it is something you need to consciously have to create. It's not like a box, where you put some input and you will get some output. In my view, it begins with the mission, vision and values.

Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.

I'd just like to see athletes awake. And aware. There's so much going on and so much to know... We stay in our little boxes and don't think much about the outside world.