Quotes About Consciousness

Emotionally, light very much influences, I feel, the audience. It's not something that most audience members are conscious of, which is a good thing, because it means as filmmakers, we have the opportunity to gently control an audience into feeling a certain way.

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

Every mental state is also physical.

You send a message in everything you do. I'm always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there.

You know there is a person inside every baby, right? And anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there.

I think we're in the time when the metaphysical world is so interesting.

You get enough people agreeing in consciousness that Mexico is a dangerous place, and that dangerous thought will make it so.

I don't have a cell phone because I know how horrible it is. Using your cell phone is like putting your head in a microwave every day.

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

If I leave the mike in the stand, my hands absolutely move more. I'm not sure if it's a conscious thing.

If we can come up with a way of backing up my brain into another that I have in my back-pack, we'll do it. People talk themselves out of things very easily. Things that they think are a million years away, or never, are actually four years away.

It's all in the mind, you know.

I'd be lying if I did not say that being a woman of colour is something I am always mindful or aware of.

You could be in a room with somebody you don't realize you're in a room with and that first impression or something that you give off might be appreciated by someone or it might not. I'm always just being mindful of you never know who's watching.

I don't buy any leather goods or anything made from animal products - no down, nothing. It's something people should be mindful of.

I will now be very mindful about it, and if I feel like I've been on my phone too much one day, I'm going to be more conscious of that and not be so obsessed.

Mindfulness can help people of any age. That's because we become what we think.

If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

All of our problems start in our minds.

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

When you drink your tea, just drink your tea. Enjoy drinking your tea. Please don't drink your suffering, your despair, your projects.

We can see making breakfast as mundane work or as a privilege—it just depends on our way of looking.

Thus we are sucked away into the future—and we are incapable of actually living one minute of life.

The past no longer is, the future is not yet here; there is only one moment in which life is available, and that is the present moment.