conscious avoidance Quotes

There are lots of things we choose not to see. Doesn't mean they aren't there, even if we wish they weren't.

Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE

I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.

We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like motoring-don't wait till the last moment before you put on the brakes but put them on, gently and quietly, while the danger is still a good way off.

Though I had an idea of what was going on - I purposely didn't see it.

There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.

Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided.

Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools become defence mechanisms... against the unconscious.