Quotes About Consciousness

It's strange how the mind works while you're acting, because you have all sorts of quick thoughts going on as well as the motivations with the character.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

The greatest problem is not with flat-out white racists, but rather with the far larger number of Americans who believe intellectually in racial equality but are quietly oblivious to injustice around them.

I know I'm just as mortal as everybody else and I think about that quite a bit, but I really do feel like everyone lives with this - they're just not aware of it.

I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from?

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

When I go back home now, when I go back to Nigeria now, I get off the plane in Lagos and I just don't think of race. I get on the plane and arrive in Atlanta, and immediately I'm aware of race.

As a natural historian, I don't believe in the consciousness of rocks or the opinions of rainbows or the convictions of slugs.

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X.

My parents realized the dangers of raising a daughter in a social, political, and legal climate that was growing increasingly oppressive toward women and girls. Although they fled to London when I was just three weeks old, the challenges facing women's rights in Iran became ingrained in my social consciousness.

Everything I do, I try to think, 'Okay, what are the ramifications?' Like, with the clothes I wear, I prefer if it's grown organically, because cotton - which is what's used in most clothing - takes up 50 percent of all pesticide use.

The mind is a funny thing in how it works. Sometimes you have to tell yourself what's really true. If you don't, your mind starts trying to tell you lies.

I am very sad that some designers are still using real fur when the fake alternatives are so effective and so easily obtainable.

The moment I started watching my thoughts, I realized how futile fear is.

I can't believe that 100% of the people who stand in art galleries looking at art are thinking, 'Well, here I am, looking at art.' They must be having some sort of other, unselfconscious experience.

That's a rule we try to follow, to not put garbage in the world.

As creative people, we should be really conscious of being of service in our work, being as generous as we can.

I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are.

I can't remember a 'best gig,' and my brain doesn't work in absolute terms like that.

I am really conscious about what I wear and how I look. I am glad that media has acknowledged this. Over the years, I have really groomed myself.

I find if my character is more glamorous, I become more conscious of what I look like.

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

Consciousness is the glory of creation.