Subconscious Quotes - Page 9

• All my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just kidding themselves that they decide anything at all. All they do is think up reasons for the decisions that are already made.

  Rex Stout

  Thinking, Decision, Important

  "Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I". Life Magazine (p. 132), December 10, 1965.

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• I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.

  Stephen King

  Inspiration, Strikes, Chords

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• Every public space is like a billboard, with messages from the collective subconscious of the nation. There one can read passivity, rage indifference, fear, double standards, subversion, bad economy, a twisted definition of 'public' itself, the whole Weltanschauung - an entire range of emotions and attitudes is exposed.

  Slavenka Drakulic

  Attitude, Space, Double Standard

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• Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out.

  Robin Wells

  Writing, Ideas, Soup

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• The houses [my first project in London] were reactions to the condition of the city and my frustrations with the norms that were being played out. In a way they were slightly subconscious but reactions to that condition and a way to posit new possibilities within certain pervasive norms.

  David Adjaye

  Frustration, Cities, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think when you have a character as richly drawn, I suppose then there are subconscious, mental notes that you've made.

  Cate Blanchett

  Character, Thinking, Notes

  "Notes On A Scandal - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay. I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness. Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.

  Alan Lightman

  Guiding Principles, Focus, Important

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing.

  Charles Stross

  Mistake, Block, Sweat

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• Stress is a byproduct of subconscious beliefs you have about the world. You can't choose not to believe something. You believe it because you think it's true. To eliminate stress, you must learn to challenge these beliefs so that you see them differently.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Stress, Believe, Thinking

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• Your Conscious desires and your Subconscious intention must be in alignment. If your Conscious Mind wants one thing and your Subconscious Mind wants something else (counter-intention) it is impossible to create what you truly want.

  Robert Anthony

  Want Something, Mind, Desire

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• As Spengler observed, all urbanized societies seem to develop a subconscious death wish, making individuals indifferent to the survival of their families and their race.

  Revilo P. Oliver

  Race, Survival, Wish

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• I sit and I write automatically. I don't really try to write. My subconscious mind takes over and writes the songs for me. Songs come very easily for me. When I'm inspired, it takes me 20 minutes to write a song.

  Brian Wilson

  Song, Writing, Mind

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• Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Sophisticated, Strategy, Social

  Henry Mintzberg (2013). “Strategy Bites Back ePub eBook”, p.74, Pearson UK

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• It's very contradictory for a man to teach about the murder in corporate capitalism, to isolate and expose the murderes behind it, to instruct that these madmen are completely without stops, are licentious, totally depraved — and then not make adequate preparations to defend himself from the madman's attack. Either they don't really believe their own spiel or they harbor some sort of subconscious death wish

  George Jackson

  Believe, Men, Preparation

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• I am a world-class weenie when it comes to letting people stick needles into me. My subconscious mind firmly believes that if God had wanted us to have direct access to our bloodstreams, He would have equipped our skin with small, clearly marked doors.

  Dave Barry

  Believe, Class, Doors

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• I like watching DVDs, flying my plane, walking and going to my place in Scotland. I like yoga. It takes me a while to unwind, the subconscious parts of my mind take a while to catch up with the rest of me.

  Martin Shaw

  Yoga, Dvds, Scotland

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• My subconscious does the writing; I don't have control over that.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Doe

  Source: content.time.com

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• I'm not a method actor, I don't write my character's history or all those kinds of things. I'm more about the 90 percent of the brain that is subconscious. I like to just pick certain pieces, let it soak in, and then let it kind of emerge out.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Writing, Character, Brain

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've always used masks. I think it's a lot about the fact that masks often reveal a sort of subconscious element to a character. The mask is carved and given an expression or markings to reveal something, even though it's shielding the face. Even though it's hiding the face, it seems to reveal something underneath.

  Dave McKean

  Character, Thinking, Expression

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Black and white is much closer to the condition of
  dreaming. It links you to the subconscious and I think that was
  part of the great appeal of movies originally.. this strange otherness.

  John Boorman

  Dream, Black And White, Thinking

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• The Yanks have colonized our subconscious.

  Wim Wenders

  "Wim Wenders: On a Wim and a prayer". www.independent.co.uk. December 31, 2007.

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• I didn't set out to write a book with no real male characters, but men were not important to my narrator, who was much more interested in maternal and pseudo-maternal love, so they were unimportant to me. I didn't even notice the lack of men in the story until I finished it. But once I did notice it, I was kind of delighted. Apparently, my subconscious is totally sexist.

  Janice Erlbaum

  Real, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Meditation, especially for people who dont know very much about it and think its this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and the dust comes flying out.

  Amanda Palmer

  Powerful, Thinking, Dust

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• It's just like an idea, like a chorus, and then we just jam on it - it happens in loads of different ways. The best songs I find always come from the subconscious, like when you don't think. Not to be pretentious about it, but usually songs just blurt out rather than thinking about it. I never write lyrics and then do a song, I find that really hard - that's like a real skill.

  Luke Pritchard

  Song, Real, Writing

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• Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going to go on growing-in size, in power, in everything a man could think of-and in that belief there was a might and a fury that would take form instantly at the moment of shock.

  Bruce Catton

  Destiny, Men, Thinking

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