I'm very happy for others to engage in conjecture, but if…

“conscious thinking is largely asking and answering questions in your own head. If you want confusion and heartache, ask vague questions. If you want…

— Timothy Ferriss

“We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is not, are due to standards of…

— John Dewey

“Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask. After all, conscious thinking is largely asking and answering questions in your own head.…

— Timothy Ferriss

“Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask. After all, conscious thinking is largely asking and answering questions in your own head.”

— Timothy Ferriss

“If you default, if you don’t reach any firm convictions, your subconscious is programmed by chance—and you deliver yourself into the power of ideas…

— Ayn Rand

In general it may be said that the things which we take for granted without inquiry or reflection are just the things which determine…

— John Dewey

We must now surrender to the obligation to understand and to care. We must surrender ourselves to becoming conscious, thinking members of the human…

— Joan D. Chittister

We make the commitment to stop for a moment and look at what the mind is doing, what mind state we are dwelling in.…

— Tenzin Palmo

When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer to the…

— Gerhard Richter

“With the word, God spoke the world into being, and in the death and resurrection of the word of God, God speaks forth the…

— Tiffany Eberle Kriner

Philosophy, which formerly raised man to feel conscious of himself because he was a thinking being and to say, 'I think therefore I am,"…

— Julien Benda

“If I had taken time to think, it would have gotten away again, but conscious thinking had been canceled by pain, surprise, and the…

— Stephen King

“You don't need incredible resources to impact another human being. You can make a difference by being conscious, by thinking of creative ways to…

— Lucy Kaylin

As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in…

— Arthur Koestler

More and more we try to effect an adaptation to life by means of external gadgets, and attempt to solve our problems by conscious…

— Alan Watts