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Conscious Mind Quotes

What the mind can truly hold.

These conscious mind quotes range from actors who clear their conscious mind for authentic performance to the idea that deeper thought waves add real mental energy and intelligence.

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

Quotes by Mark Rylance

When the conscious mind expands to embrace deeper levels of thinking, the thought wave becomes more powerful and results in added energy and intelligence.

Quotes by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one's conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones.

Quotes by J. G. Ballard

The conscious mind can only pay attention to about four things at once. If you've got these nagging voices in your head telling you to remember to pick up the laundry and call so-and-so, they're competing in your brain for...

Quotes by Daniel Levitin

Believe Quotes

We used to think that you could pay attention to five to nine things at a time. We now know that's not true. That's a crazy overestimate. The conscious mind can attend to about three things at once. Trying to...

Quotes by Daniel Levitin

If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that's when your positive thoughts work.

Quotes by Bruce Lipton

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Quotes by Brian Tracy

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these conscious mind quotes explore?
They explore how the conscious mind filters distraction, processes deeper thought, shapes obsession, and faces real limits on how much it can track at once.
How do actors use the conscious mind, according to one quote?
Great actors try to dismiss ideas from their conscious mind so the performance feels real rather than deliberately constructed, per the quote on acting technique.
What does the quote about thought waves claim?
It claims that as the conscious mind expands into deeper thinking, the resulting thought wave grows stronger, adding energy and intelligence to the process.
Is there a quote linking obsession to the conscious mind?
Yes, it describes obsessions as extreme metaphors and calls creative work a collaboration between the conscious mind and those very obsessions.
What does science say about conscious mind limits here?
One quote corrects an old belief, noting the conscious mind can really only attend to about three things at once, far below earlier estimates. See Brain quotes.

One entry gets scientific, noting the conscious mind can only track about three things at once, far less than once assumed. See Brain quotes or Believe quotes for more.