Top 1200 Collective Consciousness Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.

No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.

We must always give preference to the collective. We have to play as Brazil. Nobody is a lone protagonist.

The market's been soft, .. and I think that's mostly a result of the new provisions in the collective bargaining agreement.

The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.

Each one of us has to work hard to achieve our collective dream for a healthier planet.

At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.

The NRA is a true grass-roots organization, and the collective power of its membership is simply unparalleled.

We have a collective responsibility to do everything we can to make sure that everyone feels that the workplace is a safe and equal environment.

You need to have discussions and make sure you guide players towards the collective spirit. It can't be done overnight.

It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.

...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms?

This is taking [photos] from everybody - the entire collective memory of what the Earth looks like - and linking all of that together.

The idea that you make an experience that requires a conversation in a public place is training for the fact that culture is collective.

Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences.

I don't know what happens to our consciousness when we're unwound," says Connor. "I don't even know when that consciousness starts. But I do know this." He pauses to make sure all of them are listening. "We have a right to our lives!" The kids go wild. "We have a right to choose what happens to our bodies!" The cheers reach fever pitch. "We deserve a world where both those things are possible— and it's our job to help make that world.

I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.

I don't think there is much history can say about me. I just want to be remembered as part of that collective.

What nonsense it is, this desire to be without limitations, this wish always to be seen in the most flattering light. We are anxious, not because we think so little of ourselves, but because we think so much of ourselves. We are anxious, not that we may appear in the worst light, but that we may not appear in the best light. Anxiety is born of self-consciousness, and it is alleviated to the exact extent that we can drop consciousness of the self.

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

I landed in Kabul the day before Shock and Awe in Iraq, and you could all but hear the collective groan.

It is the consciousness of the threefold joy of the Lord, His joy in ransoming us, His joy in dwelling within us as our Saviour and Power for fruitbearing and His joy in possessing us, as His Bride and His delight; it is the consciousness of this joy which is our real strength. Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.

The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.

The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this.

All the players have this responsibility of playing for the collective and also being individuals with some specific characteristics.

I think our collective psychosis is hilarious. With the world moving as fast as it is, if we weren't dysfunctional, we couldn't function.

Sonic Youth was a collective. There's something fantastic about the idea of making music is a social activity.

In medicine, we have invented an entirely new healing paradigm. Now we no longer simply look to the doctor and to medicine to heal us. We now recognize what has been substantiated scientifically everywhere from Harvard to Duke to Stanford - that the power of the mental and spiritual consciousness of the patient is as significant in healing as physical factors are. If we apply that same paradigm to politics, we see that the mind and the spiritual consciousness of the citizen are every bit as important as anything that goes on in the government.

There is this unbounded, infinite, eternal, level, ocean, within every human being. Inner happiness comes with consciousness, bliss, intelligence comes with it. Creativity, love. Human beings have a potential and it has names like enlightenment or fulfilment, or liberation. True happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within. They say beauty is only skin deep but it's this stuff coming from the inside, absolute vibrant consciousness, absolute bliss

e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker" in the usual sense of the word because I find that this is in the main an attitude nourished exclusively by an opposition against naive superstition. My feeling is insofar religious as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insuffiency of the human mind to understand deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature." It is this consciousness and humility I miss in the Freethinker mentality. Sincerely yours, Albert Einstein.

Very often pessimistic people speak against their own desire. They want to undertake some work, and they say, 'I will do this, but I don't think I shall succeed in it.' Thus they hinder themselves in their path. Man does not know that every thought makes an impression on the consciousness and on the rhythm with which the consciousness is working. According to that rhythm that reflection will come true and happen; and a man proves to be his own enemy by his ignorance of these things.

The French are very bizarre. There is this collective depiction: 'We're in decline, we're being assailed, we must protect ourselves.'

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.

Thank you for touching me. Some of the only moments worth living were spent with you. Not you especially, the collective you.

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action - common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.

I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we." This is the sorcery of literature.

Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche

The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.

There is not way that you can have a decent life as a man if you aren't awake and aware every moment. Show up for your own life. Don't pass your days in a stupor, content to swallow whatever watery ideas modern society may bottle feed you through the media, satisfied to slumber through life in an instant gratification sugar coma. The most extraordinary gift you've been given is your own humanity, which is about consciousness. So honor that consciousness.

Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.

If we are going to reverse the race to the bottom, workers must have the right to engage in collective bargaining.

Each player has this quality, this characteristic to help the team as a collective. For me, that is very important.

There is a dharma for yourself, for someone else, for a family, for a nation, for a universe. There are collective and individual dharmas.

Half of all species on Earth could disappear by the end of the century because of our collective impact.

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time.

If we had the consciousness of a cat or a dog, we would have it in us to become perfect Zen masters. We could gnaw on a bone, take a nap, play with a spider until we killed it, get our litter just right, and be innocently and serenely present. Meaning would mean nothing to us, nor would we need it to mean anything. We would be free, and we would be spared. But, we are human beings, and we posses that odd duck – human consciousness.

Collective solutions to individual problems is very seductive. It's how Obama gets elected, by the way.

Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.

I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.

A scientific prize is an ambiguous thing: it highlights an individual when we should highlight a collective effort, but I'm not alone.

I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That's a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace.

Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.

Collective decisions about health care and education are best answered on a local level.

Any collective action is made up of individuals who one day decided not to sit and watch anymore.

I want to see a more collective style in how our party operates, in politics as a whole.

So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one.