Maybe because I was trying so hard and consciously trying to make it happen.
The policy was forced upon it; and was only pursued consciously when it became obvious.
Everything I found in books that pleased me I retained in my memory, consciously or unconsciously, and adapted it.
The practice of pruning or "stopping" is, consciously or unconsciously, regulated by the mode of growth.
The copyist does not as a general rule consciously intend a change, but he falls into one through the influence of dominant associations.