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Conscious Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles…
- It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.
- Stay conscious and alive, day in and day out.
- Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
- Bliss—a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious—lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most…
- The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with…
- Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough…
- My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and…
More Conscious Quotes
- I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. — Mikhail Bakunin
- To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. — James A. Baldwin
- I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday,… — Kristen Bell
- Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know… — Saul Bellow
- Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations. — Theodor Adorno
- I made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people - don't tell anyone your idea… — Sara Blakely
- Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point… — Cate Blanchett
- Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its… — H. P. Blavatsky
- It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that… — H. P. Blavatsky
- I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers… — Alain de Botton
- I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies… — Anthony Bourdain
- Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You… — Ray Bradbury