Unconscious Quotes - page 4

The discovery of the unconscious is a great spiritual undertaking. (Richard Tarnas)
Through its influence upon the unconscious, music can have a specific healing effect. It can help in eliminating repressions and resistances, and it can bring into the field of waking consciousness many drives, emotions and complexes which were creating difficulties in the unconscious. View quote
Roberto Assagioli
I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about. View quote
Tony Kushner
The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for. View quote
Philip K. Dick
He looked from the phone to the unconscious figure of the Salesman. "What did you do to him?" he asked. "He got the wrong number," Alex said. View quote
Anthony Horowitz
You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your 'love map,' an unconscious list of traits that you build in childhood as you grow up. And I also think that you gravitate to certain people, actually, with somewhat complementary brain systems. View quote
Helen Fisher
The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them. View quote
Charles Cooley
What happened to cause the jail fight? (Maggie) They thought it would be fun to knock around the ‘kid' and show off their manhood. I thought it would be fun to knock a couple of them unconscious. (Wren) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
So you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them so funny you'd laugh yourself unconscious, others so terrible you'd never want to repeat them. But I can't remember any of those. So I'll just tell you about the time I found that lost thing. View quote
Shaun Tan
Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well. View quote
Bernie Siegel
We humans have always sought to increase our personal energy in the only manner we have known, by seeking to psychologically steal it from the others--an unconscious competition that underlies all human conflict in the world. (James Redfield)
The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material. View quote
Jennifer Egan
Practice is funny that way. For days and days, you make out only the fragments of what to do. And then one day you've got the thing whole. Conscious learning becomes unconscious knowledge, and you cannot say precisely how. View quote
Atul Gawande
We live in a world where finding fault in others seems to be the favorite blood sport. It has long been the basis of political campaign strategy. It is the theme of much television programming across the world. It sells newspapers. Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections. View quote
Henry B. Eyring
No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion. View quote
Christopher Dawson
The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous. View quote
Edward Thorndike
I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds. View quote
Anne Roiphe
I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road. View quote
Benjamin F. Wade
He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness. View quote
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions. View quote
E. Stanley Jones
I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain. (Evelyn Glennie)
What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make. View quote
John Corigliano
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. View quote
Margaret Walker
White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority of some, while others are believed to be innately inferior. And it doesn't demand the individual participation of the singular bigot. It is a machine operating in perpetuity, because it doesn't demand that somebody be in place driving. View quote
Michael Eric Dyson
Modeling teaches you to be completely conscious of the camera. Acting is being totally unconscious of it. View quote
Phoebe Cates