Top 1200 Conscious Effort Quotes & Sayings

You know how it's almost impossible for kids to not say what they think? That's me. I have to make the conscious effort to be situationally appropriate.

Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.

Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins

The first thing to be understood: effort is needed, but effort alone is not enough - effort and then effortlessness, effort plus effortlessness. Effort precedes, and then effortlessness follows. Effortlessness is the peak of effort, it comes only when you have reached the peak

Every meal is a conscious effort to stay disciplined and understand what's on your plate.

Vegetarianism is a conscious effort, a deliberate effort, to get out of the heaviness that keeps you tethered to the earth so that you can fly - so that the flight from the alone to the alone becomes possible.

Divine opportunities are all around you every day. Make a conscious effort today to show kindness to someone.

I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.

There has always been a conscious effort to destroy any upliftment of the black race, whether that be physically, mentally, psychologically, morally, culturally, or economically.

There are a lot of things that I'm allowing myself to be, but it's a conscious effort to experience contentment for me. My brain doesn't do that naturally. I'm very overwhelmed all of the time.

Self-care has to be a conscious effort, because I often think there's a whole family tree of people who come before I do.

It's a conscious effort for me to be aggressive and take what the defense gives you.

The music industry as a whole needs to genuinely make a conscious effort to look after people's physical and mental health.

I do make a conscious effort to bring energy every day. Have fun, keep stuff light, all of that stuff.

I have been putting the effort. I went for the acting course, watched a lot of movies and started reading about films. I think that has created a sub-conscious impact.

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.

By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent.

I do make a conscious effort to not repeat old patterns, instead of being like, But they don't want me! I haven't always been that way.

Keep a constant awareness and a conscious effort to say good words, perform good actions, and to practice patience and compassion.

Without a conscious effort, all of my plays have all featured gay characters. I'm proud of that.

Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of.

Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if that reason is not always apparent.

Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism.

Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order

I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible.

Whether we meditate individually or collectively, there is one thing we absolutely must do: we have to meditate consciously. Making an unconscious effort is like forcing oneself to play football in spite of one's utmost unwillingness. One plays, but gets no joy. Conscious effort is like playing football most willingly. One gets real joy. Similarly, conscious meditation gives us inner Delight from the soul.

You're saying no ninety-seven times out of a hundred, and most founders find they have to make a very conscious effort to do this.

I do make some conscious efforts to write female friendships, intergenerational female friendships. I make a conscious effort to include things that I see as important real parts of my life that are not reflected as much as I think they should be in popular culture. We very seldom have the opportunity to see women compete and remain friends.

It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes.

I believe that constant effort, tireless effort, pursuing clear goals with sincere effort is the only way

Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don't want to be.

I try to choose characters that don't remind the audience of my previous roles. I make a conscious effort for that.

I live by the philosophy that beauty starts from within, and I make a conscious effort to fill my body with nutrients through the food I eat.

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.

I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.

I made a conscious effort that I just wanted to work with people that were going to make me better and that was the main thing - writers, directors, in whatever medium.

The highest form of leadership is one in which a leader raises up other leaders - not as an accident, but as a result of conscious effort.

I've never made a conscious effort to do anything about my psychological side. I just try to think positively and enjoy it.

Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.

Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort? Nobody can judge effort. Effort is between you and you. Effort ain't got nothing to do with nobody else.

Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.

The fact is as you get older you can't just change things or be quite as laissez-faire; you're conscious of the effort and time it takes for things to happen.

When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm continually inspired and write reflexively.

People could achieve much more if only they would put in more effort. You must take responsibility for your own life. Be conscious of how you use your time! Be conscious of how you listen! Be conscious of how you manage all of your affairs, so that God can look upon you and be well pleased. Seek God's honor in everything you do.

I don't make a conscious effort about being a fashionista.

We never made a conscious effort to spread globally.

I am making a conscious effort to ensure that my acting potential gets tapped in every project I do.

I will make a conscious effort to pick up roles which give a social message besides being entertaining.

Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?

What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.

Success in any endeavor does not happen by accident. Rather, it’s the result of deliberate decisions, conscious effort, and immense persistence...all directed at specific goals.

I made a conscious effort to focus on television so I could stay in Los Angeles, so I wasn't on a location all over the world doing movies.

I don't make a conscious effort to choose any particular genre. If I like the script, I go ahead with the project.

There was always a conscious effort on my part to do different cinema. It's taken time for the directors to accept me.

I don't think I've ever made a conscious effort to alter the sound. I don't see the point. I have to remain true to how I sing. I'm perfectly happy with what I am. Whatever that is.

What is difficult to understand is that without conscious effort, nothing is possible. Conscious effort is related to higher nature. My lower nature alone cannot lead me to consciousness. It is blind. But when I wake up and I feel that I belong to a higher world, this is only part of conscious effort. I become truly conscious only when I open to all my possibilities, higher and lower. There is value only in conscious effort.

Give deliberately. Giving is at its best when it's a conscious effort that's repeatedly made.

But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.

It wasn't until I moved to New York that I decided to make a conscious effort to be myself.

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man, from the fields, the streets, the bars, the offices and even the gutters of his country, has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent, and that if I stick to this heritage, this logos of the American countryside, I shall attain a maximum of effectiveness with very little effort.