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“In a world muddled with madness, I made a conscious effort to stay sane.”

— Angela Colleen Prendergast

What is difficult to understand is that without conscious effort, nothing is possible. Conscious effort is related to higher nature. My lower nature alone…

— Jeanne de Salzmann

I came to the big city and I started to get involved in the punk scene and stuff, and I wanted to sort of…

— Seth

“It would also require a conscious effort to look at the world from unfamiliar standpoints and admit that the West has no monopoly on…

— Edward Luce

The people in my life are friends I have by choice. I've made a conscious effort to have them in life. I only have…

— Gillian Zinser

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try…

— James M. Cain

I made a conscious effort to make a record that would affect people in a good way rather than the last one, which affected…

— Daniel Johns

I made a conscious effort to focus on television so I could stay in Los Angeles, so I wasn't on a location all over…

— Rob Lowe

If you don't make a conscious effort to control your focus-and decide in advance which things you're going to focus on-you'll be so pulled…

— Tony Robbins

Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order

— Victor Papanek

Happiness isn't a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets…

— Phil McGraw

“It was as if he'd suddenly become intimately aware of the fragility of life and how precious time really was. As a result, he…

— Micah Sparks

Whether we meditate individually or collectively, there is one thing we absolutely must do: we have to meditate consciously. Making an unconscious effort is…

— Sri Chinmoy

There was always a conscious effort on my part to do different cinema. It's taken time for the directors to accept me.

— Dimple Kapadia

The fact is as you get older you can't just change things or be quite as laissez-faire; you're conscious of the effort and time…

— Jason Butler Harner