Not everything we do as artists has deep intent. If we push barriers, that's great, but sometimes we just do our work. Whether we make some kind of statement, consciously or unconsciously, we shouldn't take the innocence away from what we do.
. . . that order generated without design can far outstrip plans men consciously contrive
Always flat front. You've got to be deeply suspicious of a man who consciously goes with pleats. Why would you do that?
Hitler had a great gift for adjusting - consciously or intuitively - to his surroundings. . . . With enormous histrionic intuition he could shape his behavior to changing situations.
It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.
Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value - in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price - should be labelled speculation
Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.
I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully. Then act upon it.
A saint is never consciously a saint- a saint is consciously dependent on God.
As you think of yourself living in abundance, you are powerfully and consciously determining your life through the law of attraction.
A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.
The better we understand the choices we have been making, either consciously or unconsciously, the more say we will have in the world we create. Neurocircuitry may be neurocircuitry, but we don't have to run on automatic.
As designers we are influenced both consciously and subconsciously by everything we see around ourselves. Still, we always must try to avoid anything that has been defined as the latest and greatest "trend" in design.
not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life.
I have consciously sought after those things which make for value, order, richness, spirit and wonder, even though I am often unable to verbalize what I feel when I perceive something beautiful. Sometimes it's a pang or a sensation; at other times it is an awareness of joy and security or pure pleasure. In any event, it is a moment to be celebrated. Beauty justifies itself. The fact that it is beyond definition means nothing.
We have always conducted our relationship privately, and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and coparent, we will be able to continue in the same manner.
What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.
I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.