Subconscious Quotes - Page 17

• If you do not run your subconscious mind yourself, someone else will run it for you.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Running, Mind, Ifs

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much Mor”, p.32, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• When the subconscious mind must chose between deeply rooted emotions and logic, emotions will almost always win.

  T. Harv Eker

  Winning, Mind, Logic

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• When we accomplish a goal, it instantly loses some of its importance and we tend to lose interest. When we write down too many goals, there is plenty to keep our subconscious mind at work.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Writing, Goal, Mind

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• Right before I decided to come out, I went on a spiritual retreat called 'Changing the Inner Dialogue of Your Subconscious Mind.' I'd never been to anything like it before, and all my friends were taking bets on how long I'd last with no TV, no radio, no phone. But for me that was the beginning of paying attention to all the little things.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Spiritual, Phones, Long

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• Have you ever wondered what your subconscious mind looks like? Well today, I can show you.

  David Icke

  Mind, Today, Looks

  "Bridge of Love (You want to change your life? Then change the way you think!)". Book by David Icke, August 1995.

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• If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Spirit, Cooperation, Holy

  "Weekend (John 16: 7-15)" by Pastor Chris Kam,

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• I used to write in bed, starting when I woke up. I believe that creative work comes from our subconscious mind, so I try to keep the gap between sleep and writing as minimal as possible.

  Marian Keyes

  Believe, Sleep, Writing

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• Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Color, Sea, Waves Breaking

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1844). “The Spanish Student: A Play in Three Acts”, p.50

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• At the start of my career, when I used to toss and turn at night, I was fighting that feeling and wanting to go to sleep. Now I know that's normal, so I'll just get up and watch TV or something. I know it's just my subconscious mind getting ready for a game.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sleep, Fighting, Night

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• There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level

  Parker Posey

  Men, Leaving, Levels

  Interview with Christina Kelly, www.indexmagazine.com. 1996.

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• If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Real, Writing, Past

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Loot”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff. Everything else is fake.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Fake, Stories

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• I don't mess around with my subconscious

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Mess

  Branden Wayne Joseph, Robert Rauschenberg (2003). “Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-avant-garde”, p.273, MIT Press

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• I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, Im aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a readers emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Focus, Elements, Emotion

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• The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually covert, even subconscious.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

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• Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes. the subconscious identically creates.

  Bryan Adams

  Positive, Wise, Believe

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• When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

  Lindsey Buckingham

  Canvas, Paint, Form

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• Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

  Sonia Sanchez

  Conversation, Poetry Is

  Sonia Sanchez (2010). “I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t and Other Plays”, p.15, Duke University Press

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• Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your subconscious, which is graceful. But that takes time.

  Robert Beverly Hale

  Play, Piano, Drawing

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• One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting truths lie.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Lying, Writing, Interesting

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• In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Journey, Emotional

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• Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.

  Austin Osman Spare

  Art, Latent, Application

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• What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.

  Ray Bradbury

  Men, Creative, Muse

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• I like to look at pictures, all kinds. And all those things you absorb come out subconsciously one way or another. You'll be taking photographs and suddenly know that you have resources from having looked at a lot of them before. There is no way you can avoid this. But this kind of subconscious influence is good, and it certainly can work for one. In fact, the more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Looks, Way, Facts

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• I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Moving, Taken, Writing

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