Heightened State Quotes

#1. And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.

Pico Iyer

#2. When I go up, especially if I'm paying for a small helicopter and pilot, I'm on. I've got an hour and a half and the clock is ticking and it's costly and I enter into a super-heightened state of mind.

Michael Light

#3. Crisis is routinely identified as a core mechanism of fascism because it short-circuits debate and democratic deliberation. Hence all fascistic movements commit considerable energy to prolonging a heightened state of emergency. Across the West, this was the most glorious boon of World War I.

Jonah Goldberg

#4. The terrifying dilemma of humankind is to be aware of the magnificent gifts of our unique consciousness, which allows us to live a heightened state of existence while contemporaneously bedeviled with the knowledge that we must die.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#5. Just before a game, I try to keep a clear mind so that I can focus better. I'm the kind of person who plays fast and relies a lot on intuition, so being at peace with myself is vital. Saying my daily prayers helps me achieve this heightened state of mind.

Viswanathan Anand

#6. I would be so curious to wire my brain up and see what's occurring when I act, because a performance is such a heightened state. I've always found that with doing theatre especially. It's so hard to come down.

Luke Kirby

#7. Paranoia is just a heightened state of awareness. I didn't say it, but I repeat it often enough.

Gerald Everett Jones

#8. Enthusiasm is a heightened state of consciousness, and it's one of the best feelings there is to feel.

Danielle LaPorte

#9. No one ... can live in this heightened state of reflective receptivity forever. Because this empathy's involuntary, there's terror here. Loss of control, a seepage. Becoming someone else or worse: becoming nothing but the vibratory field between two people.

Chris Kraus

#10. I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of heightened awareness. And it's that awareness of really looking at the everyday world with clear and focused attention that I'm interested in.

Stephen Shore

#11. I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.

Noel Gallagher

#12. Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right.

Ann Voskamp

#13. Our brains are wired such that it's difficult to take action until we feel at least some level of this emotional state. In fact, performance peaks under the heightened activation that comes with moderate levels of stress. As long as the stress isn't prolonged, it's harmless.

Travis Bradberry

#14. I learned to smile by going through hell. Now I know what hell is and you don't. I can't tell you how it is, cause you can't do it with words.

Jack Kevorkian

#15. Through years of my prime
I walked with a heart
crazy about love.

Suman Pokhrel

#16. Thinking is hard; that's why so few do it.

John C. Maxwell

#17. Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets their perception of what is going on in things they don't have immediate access to from what they get through the media.

Anthony Fauci

#18. I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.

Sam Kinison

#19. I'd heard August say more than once, "If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you." T. Ray needed a face-saving way to hand me over, and August was giving it to him.

Sue Monk Kidd

#20. Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions.

Claude Steiner

#21. the regime had been notably anti-anti-Semitic.

Tom Reiss

#22. Start training yourself. You don't have to have been an elite lifter to be a good coach - I sure as hell wasn't. But you have to at least have been under the bar enough to know why wedon't look up at the bleeding ceiling when we squat!

Mark Rippetoe

#23. No matter how intense the situation, or how powerful the feelings, it was impossible to maintain a heightened emotional state forever. Eventually you'd just get tired and want it to end.

James S.A. Corey

#24. Do they think their life would be over if I wasn't here?

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#25. One cannot live without inconsistency.

Carl Jung

#26. We want to empower the doctors and patients to get all the other assholes out of the way,' Clark had once told me, then laughed. 'Except for us. One asshole in the middle.

Michael Lewis

#27. It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.

Robert Charles Wilson