Unconscious Quotes
The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice
Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not
Lent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy. It's a time to look what our instinctual needs are, look at what the dynamics of our unconscious are.
In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.
The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.
Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious.
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man.
If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.
I back away from conscious thought and turn the problem over to my unconscious mind. It will scan a broader array of patterns and find some new close fits from other information stored in my brain.
Ninety-five percent of thought, emotion, and learning occur in the unconscious mind - that is, without our awareness.
Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.
Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism.
Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.
Taste is a phenomenon. Most of taste is unconscious - it comes from your upbringing, from your family, from your society, your gender, your race; it's a melange of all those things.
The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.
God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known.
There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
We can hardly escape the feeling that the unconscious process moves spiral-wise round a centre, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the centre grow more and more distinct.
The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine volition and service is with us still.
I think we can affect our own fates, but there's also a powerful energy that's the universe or God or whatever your unconscious recognizes that helps along your way.
You can't just imitate and keep coming up with ideas. You have to be tapping into something that's pure and unconscious in yourself or you'll have no career.
Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.
It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail
The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties.
Psychoanalysis comes down to the process itself - the self, and life. I think I can say that I'm friends with the unconscious life, but I've never tried to make a painting directly from a dream.
To express your emotions, you have to be very loose and receptive. The unconscious will come to you if you have that gift that artists have. I only know if Im inspired by the results.
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
Discipline is the habit of taking consistent action until one can perform with unconscious competence. Discipline weighs ounces but regret weighs tons.
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.
The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'
Subliminal is about how we misinterpret our behavior because were unaware of what our unconscious minds are doing.
In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.