Conscious Thought Quotes
18 quotes by 18 authors
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Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to…
— Maxwell Maltz
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There is generally not any conscious thought; it's all instinct, and practice takes over.
— Cindy Nelson
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The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Your final goal is to convert your athletic swing to pure instinct rather than conscious thought.
— David Leadbetter
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Prayer and contemplation are both exercises in concentration. The normal deluge of conscious thought is restricted and the mind is brought to one conscious area…
— Henepola Gunaratana
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I back away from conscious thought and turn the problem over to my unconscious mind. It will scan a broader array of patterns and find…
— Arthur Fry
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The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.
— Thomas Beecham
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Both Arthur Ashe and Billie Jean King used these phrases ("playing out of one's mind," or "over one's head") to describe their performances while winning…
— Timothy Gallwey
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Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.
— Mason Cooley
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of…
— Philip Pullman
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The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to…
— William A. Dembski
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She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when her…
— John Crowley
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But my last conscious thought was an image of Prince Char when he'd caught the bridle of Sir Stephan's horse. His face had been close…
— Gail Carson Levine
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Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.
— Leonard Mlodinow
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One half-conscious thought was burned in my mind: stay on your feet.
— Gene Tunney
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The mind does different things in performance, and conscious thought sometimes takes a backseat.
— Reggie Watts
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Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and…
— Eric Brown
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When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.
— Denis Johnson
Who Wrote These Conscious Thought Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 18 Conscious Thought Quotes as follows: