#consc

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#conscious #ought #poet #unconscious #usually

You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that the camera has moved, but there's subconscious tension there. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#aware #camera #half #like #minute

The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music. ↗

— Tim Finn

#big success #conscious #create #follow #gets

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#cannot #control #impresses #master #our

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#blind #consciousness #forces #himself #historic

No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#community #conscience #i #i think #just

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart. ↗

— John Dewey

#conscience #deeds #good #good intentions #heart

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#birthday #bitter #creator #creatures #divides

It's all about fair trade, and helping people eating locally grown stuff. We're recycling everything. We're trying to tour in the most conscious way possible, environmentally and socially. ↗

— Andrew Dost

#conscious #eating #environmentally #everything #fair

I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future. ↗

— Matt Drudge

#communication #conscience #follow #future #going