They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.
Michael N. Castle

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

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
William James

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
Maxwell Maltz

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.
Bo Bennett

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.
Ken Burns

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Joyce Brothers

Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.
William Irwin Thompson

Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.
Wole Soyinka

Watching the completed version of The Two Towers for example, I was very conscious of scenes - sometimes whole sequences - that I had seen being filmed or edited but which hadn't made it into the final cut.
Brian Sibley

We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.
Ray Kurzweil

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
Hans Kung

We are deeply conscious of the fact that our north and west must be developed.
Lionel K. Murphy

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
Vernon Howard

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.
Kevin Richardson

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Thornton Wilder

We felt if we didn't have new material in us and we didn't have a real reason to exist, then we probably wouldn't have done an 80's revival thing. We are very conscious about the fact that's what we are as a bunch of people.
Andy Taylor

We moved, and there was a golden era in the '40s when we were so conscious of who we were as Australians.
Graeme Murphy

We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.
John Denver