Top 100 Conscious Decision Quotes
#1. Forgiveness is "selective remembering" - a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go. But the ego is relentless - it is "capable of suspiciousness at best and viciousness at worst.
Marianne Williamson
#2. And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.
Hunter S. Thompson
#3. To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
Maxwell Maltz
#4. Right around 2004 when 'Ray' came out, I made a conscious decision to be more discerning because I thought to myself, 'After something like this, I really have to try to be strong enough to turn stuff down.'
Bokeem Woodbine
#6. It's very hard to separate what is a conscious decision and what's not.
Emily Haines
#7. It's not really a conscious decision to do a quiet album or a noisier album. It's just something that happens, I guess.
Sune Rose Wagner
#8. I make a conscious decision to get involved with guys who are the worst levels of asshole. They're like the Bilbo Douchebaggins from the Shire of Douchey-ness.
Sadie Grubor
#9. Right after 'Backspacer,' my best friend got killed tragically. Something happened to me then where I got super motivated. I had a shelf of all this unfinished music ... So I just went to work and made a conscious decision that I was going to finish a bunch of stuff. Life's short.
Jeff Ament
#10. Competition is created from within, when you make a conscious decision to demand more from yourself.
Mark W. Boyer
#11. Well, you can't control what they do, but you can control how you respond to it ... whether you allow it to drive you crazy, or occupy all of your thoughts, or whether you note what they're doing, consider it, and make a conscious decision as to how much you'll let it affect you
Jennifer Weiner
#12. Letting yourself be vulnerable isn't always a weakness. Sometimes it can be a conscious decision to draw the other person out.
Penelope Douglas
#13. In order for there to be fault, there has to be some sort of conscious decision.
Colleen Hoover
#14. It was never a conscious decision - I was introducing myself as Duffy and my friends were calling me Duffy, so I just knocked off the first half of my name. For me it's no big deal, but a lot of people want to unearth why I've called myself this. It's just what I'm known as, you know.
Duffy
#15. For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#16. He made a conscious decision not to think about it, and accordingly spent the rest of his shift thinking about nothing else.
Tom Holt
#17. There's a conscious decision to everything I do.
Daniel Craig
#18. I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.
Keira Knightley
#19. When I started acting, I made a conscious decision that I wanted to be a character read and not a leading man. I didn't want to do the same thing again and again. I wanted to push and challenge myself. I find and embrace new and unique challenges in all mediums.
Brian J. White
#20. I've had people tell me to get Mystic Tan, blonde highlights, choppy haircuts, but I've made a conscious decision not to cave.
Kat Dennings
#21. I love you, Kaden. Against my better judgement and sense, I love you and I'm making the conscious decision to keep loving you until the day I die.
Lydia Kelly
#22. I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.
Stevie Nicks
#23. It wasn't a conscious decision nor was it only one bad choice that led him here. It was anger, pure unadulterated fury
Charity Parkerson
#24. My approach to living with purpose has always been to create the life I want,
one conscious decision at a time.
Oprah Winfrey
#26. I believe thinking about being old or even dying eradicates that fear. Fear can control you or you can control it; it's a conscious decision. A life lived with fear doesn't sound that enjoyable to me.
Peter James Barkley
#27. My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.
Naveen Andrews
#28. I made a big conscious decision in my life when I was writing all these big action movies and doing different kind of fare but very proud of it, I was finding myself less and less passionate about doing it.
Ric Roman Waugh
#29. Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship.
Eric Massa
#30. Not-learning is the conscious decision not to learn something that you could learn.
Herbert Kohl
#31. I don't think I've ever made any conscious decision to be a comic artist, but to me there's something quite anarchic about comedy.
David Shrigley
#32. The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.
Laura Linney
#33. You Can't Plan the Kind of Deep Love That Results in Children. Fatherhood Was Not a Conscious Decision. It Was Part of the Wonderful Ride I Was on. It Was Destiny; Kismet. All the Math Finally Worked.
Johnny Depp
#34. I made a conscious decision to earn enough to be able to choose my husband rather than not have a career and marry someone who would have to earn enough for us both to live on.
Sarah Beeny
#35. My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My characters have dark sides; they aren't the god-fearing characters. It wasn't a conscious decision. I'm a very lazy and emotional person who connects with the common man.
Madhur Bhandarkar
#36. It wasn't something he made a conscious decision about...rather it was something that grew from his heart, a truth that simply was.
Karen Kingsbury
#37. When you choose to be a competitor you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are.
Pat Summitt
#38. If you choose to do the right thing, it's a conscious decision at first. Then it becomes second nature. You don't have to think about what is right because doing the right thing becomes who you are, like a reflex. Your actions with time become your character
J.L. Witterick
#39. The direction in which you head is determined by your own conscious decision to go there, and no one can take that away from you. -Bryce Clark in Fulfillment (Book 3 in The Temptation Series)
K.M. Golland
#41. I don't recall making a conscious decision to become an actor. I just remember winning a prize at a theatre festival when I was 17 and saying: 'Oh, that's what I have to do.'
Simon McBurney
#42. Make a conscious decision, no matter what it is, and know that that choice will have consequences.
Eddie De Jong
#43. You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being and that of your family and your country.
William J. Clinton
#44. I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscious decision that has resulted in me getting almost exclusive work on comics where the main character is female.
Adam Hughes
#45. I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.
Sally Kirkland
#46. Instead of saying no to all technology, I made a conscious decision to teach myself how to effectively parent it.
Mandy Majors
#47. Once you get into fitness you do notice your diet and notice that certain foods don't quite agree with you. I don't think it was a conscious decision, I think it organically happened over time, but I do watch what I eat and try to eat healthy.
Jayne Middlemiss
#48. True love is an act of the will - a conscious decision to do what is best for the other person instead of ourselves.
Billy Graham
#49. It wasn't a conscious decision to actually make a movie about Guantanamo Bay. It was a device.
Hayden Schlossberg
#50. Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.
Maggie Stiefvater
#51. It had been a conscious decision to pull free. It had taken everything I had to do it, like an animal gnawing a limb off to escape a trap. And somehow I had done it;
Donna Tartt
#52. A relationship is so much easier when you make a conscious decision to accept that you only have each other. That said, problems with your mate should only be discussed within the confines of your union.
Carlos Wallace
#53. A glamazon is someone who's taken a love of beauty and life and listen, depending on the weather or how my blood sugar at any time, I can be more outspoken than other times, but it's a conscious decision to live life with a fierce determination.
RuPaul
#54. There had to have been a moment where they made a conscious decision to turn away before they saw something they didn't want to.
Jodi Picoult
#55. I don't remember sitting down and saying, 'This is why I want to be - an actress.' I just knew. It was never a conscious decision or a revelation.
Joanne Whalley
#56. Choosing colours should not be a gamble. It should be a conscious decision. Colours have a meaning and a function.
Verner Panton
#57. I always tell people is really make sure you know why you want to do it. For me, I didnt make a conscious decision like "Oh I want to be a singer", it was like I grew up around it, I was singing because it was just natural for me to sing.
Jhene Aiko
#58. No child, no matter what path they may have chosen, should be abandoned by the people who should love them the most. When two people come together and make the conscious decision to create a life, they have an obligation to protect and love that child until death.
S.L. Jennings
#59. And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do.
Charlize Theron
#60. 'The 25th Hour' came out of the decision - a really very conscious decision - that I needed a story set within a compressed time frame because that would help focus the story.
David Benioff
#61. I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not to have children - which I have never regretted.
Betty White
#62. I made a conscious decision not to date actors.
Margot Robbie
#63. Failure is rarely a conscious decision and it's often out of our control, determined by things like physics and circumstance and other people. What we can always control, however, is our reaction to failure.
Kevin Hearne
#64. I made a conscious decision to believe. Every day. I keep deciding to believe.
Angela Thomas
#65. Gratitude is usually generated in one of two ways. One, by feeling a genuine appreciation for the life that you were given and, two, by making a conscious decision to practice looking at what's right in your life rather than focusing on what's missing.
Alex Green
#66. Falling in love may not be a conscious decision, but removing yourself from the situation before it happens is. So if I meet someone I think I might fall in love with . . . I'll just remove myself from their presence until I'm ready for it.
Colleen Hoover
#67. There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.
Cindy Gallop
#68. It was such a depressing time. I didn't look very depressed, maybe, but it was really dire. I made a conscious decision not to stop, but it could have gone the other way.
Zaha Hadid
#69. We can all be weak, but we all have to make a conscious decision to be strong.
Yaya Toure
#70. I decided to be confident one day, and then I just was. I think it's a conscious decision. Everything in society tells you to hate yourself, but you know what? If you decide to love yourself, it's an act of revolution.
Gaby Dunn
#71. Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
#72. We started MakerBot in 2009 and made a conscious decision to educate people with the possibilities they could do with 3D printing and share with people what is possible.
Bre Pettis
#73. Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct.
Lewis Gordon
#74. Look," she said, making the conscious decision to wrench herself back before her frustrated wolf took control and she found herself feasting on male lips currently thin with anger, "it's nothing personal. I'm generally a bitch.
Nalini Singh
#75. Worrying isn't rational. No one makes a conscious decision to freak out about something.
Sara Novic
#76. Having children is not an act of God. It's not like you're walking down the street and pregnancy strikes you; children are a result of a conscious decision. For the most part, female-headed households are the result of short-sighted, self-destructive behavior of one or two people.
Walter E. Williams
#77. Bouncing a sitting president requires conscious action, a national decision to redirect the country's course. This cuts against the grain, and that's why incumbents have a natural advantage.
John Podhoretz
#78. If the laws of physics are not strictly causal the most that can be said is that the behaviour of the conscious brain is one of the possible behaviours of a mechanical brain. Precisely so; and the decision between the possible behaviours is what we call volition.
Arthur Stanley Eddington
#79. I am not a believer of the law of attraction (though I do not deny the possibilities of it to be true), but I firmly believe in the ability of making choices, the ability to take conscious decisions.
Namrata Kumari
#80. Others don't make us angry. There is no force involved. Becoming angry is a conscious choice, a decision, therefore, we can make the choice not to become angry. We choose!
Lynn G. Robbins
#81. The first sin was rebellion, idolatry, treason, and pride, all rolled into a single bite. Both Adam and Eve made a conscious choice to rebel against their Creator and live on their own terms. And we imitate their decision every time we choose our desires over God's.
Francis Chan
#82. 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
#83. You make the choice for change more easily and readily each time as your conscious mind begins to reprogram your subconscious mind with a new habit, and the decision is reinforced by that positive change.
Marshall Sylver
#84. If human beings are losing every time, it doesn't matter whether they're losing to a conscious machine or an completely non conscious machine, they still lost. The singularity is about the quality of decision-making, which is not consciousness at all.
Stuart J. Russell
#85. Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions.
Paul Tillich
#86. We assign a moment to decision, to dignify the process as a timely result of rational and conscious thought. But decisions are made of kneaded feelings; they are more often a lump than a sum.
Thomas Harris
#88. I believe we all serve someone in this life. For the first thirty-eight years of mine, I served myself. My conversion was not a highly emotional experience. It was a conscious, thought-out decision that changed my focus, my direction, my heart, my life.
Francine Rivers
#89. The spirit of mercy is found in all the world's great religions , and they remind us of our charge in caring for Creation.
Wayne Pacelle
#90. We are in the midst--much closer to the beginning than to the end, I believe--of an epic, political, cultural, and economic realignment in treatment of animals.
Wayne Pacelle
#91. You are capable of loving the unlovable.
The grace of God gives you the power to love.
It also takes conscious effort and decision to choice to love.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#92. Every single decision of your life is predicated on the healthy functioning of the prefrontal cortex. Even a slight malfunction in a tiny chunk of neuron anywhere in the PFC would lead to the mental deficit in your logical decision-making.
Abhijit Naskar
#93. The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#94. A decision is a conscious act and random thoughts are subconscious manifestations.
Daniel Marques
#95. There are two things that make
the conscious world move,
decision and desire.
Toby Barlow
#96. Agape love is selfless love ... the love God wants us to have isn't just an emotion but a conscious act of the will - a deliberate decision on our part to put others ahead of ourselves. This is the kind of love God has for us.
Billy Graham
#97. Every conscious act requires risk. Every conscious act requires decision. Put these two facts together and you realize that the secret to life is not to avoid gambling but to gamble well.
Mike Caro
#98. Indeed, consumer choice informed by conscience is an unstoppable force for good.
Wayne Pacelle
#99. Your life is shaped by the thoughts and experiences you choose - and make no mistake, the decision is always yours. I promise, when you learn to be conscious and in control of what you are focusing on, you can begin to create high vibrational experiences, which will transform and heal your life.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#100. Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
Lajos Egri
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