Unconscious Quotes - Page 19

• Nobody ever arrives at a very big idea through a conscious, rational thought process. It comes from your unconscious.

  David Ogilvy

  Ideas, Conscious, Process

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• A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Groups, Determined

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Icarus; or, the Future of Science”, p.10, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a speech, travel-but rather by the symbolic and often unconscious representations.

  Willard Gaylin

  Worry, Imagination, Anxiety

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• I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Surroundings, Suffragists, Temperament

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.7, 谷月社

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• I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical.

  Janet Fitch

  Book, Writing, Mean

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• As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to be scared when there is so much violence and craziness in the world. People still really enjoy being scared. It's a conundrum to me. It's hard to explain. It's an unconscious thing, really, why people like that so much.

  Dylan McDermott

  Thinking, People, World

  "Dylan McDermott Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, His New Role on the Show, Why the Show Resonates with Viewers and Returning for Season 3". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 20, 2012.

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• Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative/intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience.

  Willis Harman

  Block, Real, Keys

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• I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.

  William Peter Blatty

  Directors, Unnoticed, Happens

  Interview with Lucy A. Snyder, www.lucysnyder.com. July 26, 1999.

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• We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.

  Anne Carson

  Struggle, Mean, Talking

  "The Inscrutable Brilliance of Anne Carson". Interview with Sam Anderson, www.nytimes.com. March 14, 2013.

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• The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

  Jennifer Egan

  Effort, Lines, Firsts

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• America was founded by puritans and like it or not the anti-pleasure dogma of those buckled-shoed killjoys still pervades our collective unconscious like an I-max shot of Dennis Franz's naked hairy cop ass. Hence, anything enjoyable is automatically forbidden and bad and in our panic to avoid it at all cost we become obsessed with it... like dressing up in a pink teddy and a pair of ugboots and repeatedly screaming the word 'VERBOTEN!' into a conk shell balanced on the back on a miniature pony... Oh, I see.. That would just be me.

  Dennis Miller

  America, Collective Unconscious, Dressing Up

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• And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the painter have brought such wondrous treasures-an unfailing fountain of intellectual enjoyment, where all may drink, and be awakened to a deeper feeling of the works of genius, and a keener perception of the beauty of our existence. For those whose days are all consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolities of fashion, unobservant of nature's loveliness, are unconscious of the harmony of creation

  Thomas Cole

  Fashion, Nature, Feelings

  Thomas Cole (1980). “The collected essays and prose sketches”

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• I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn't a struggle, there wasn't an attempt to suppress.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Struggle, Closets, Felt

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

  Manuel Puig

  Literature, Way, Environment

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• When I write an email where I outlined a whole scene, it just came out of my unconscious, it comes from a deeper place. The same thing happens when the actors go, take after take, and just get lost in it. When you're in a house, you don't think about being in the house; you're just there.

  David O. Russell

  Writing, Thinking, House

  "David O. Russell is back in the neighbourhood" by Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 15, 2012.

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• Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Poet, Conscious

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.113, eKitap Projesi

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• I sometimes feel that I'm impersonating the dark unconscious of the whole human race. I know this sounds sick, but I love it.

  Vincent Price

  Dark, Race, Sick

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in the inexpressible, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one's own intelligence, and await with deep humility and patience the birth-hour of a new clarity: that alone is living the artist's life.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Humility, Dark, Artist

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• There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political.

  Renata Adler

  Political, Matter

  "Speedboat". Book by Renata Adler, www.newyorker.com. 1976.

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• I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call upon men to make themselves conscious of this divinity within. That is really the ideal --conscious or unconscious --of every religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Men, Divinity

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2149, Manonmani Publishers

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• Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits.

  Carl Jung

  Keys, Pursuit, Our Lives

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• Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a lifetime accumulation of influence: experience, knowledge, seeing and hearing. There is little time for reflection in taking a photograph. All your experiences come to a peak and you work on two levels: conscious and unconscious.

  Arnold Newman

  Reflection, Two, Shooting

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• The unconscious works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Mind, Way, Unconscious Mind

  "The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy".

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• A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . .

  Antonin Artaud

  Real, Calm, Kind

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• Art is about the spontaneous connection of the artist to his own unconscious - about insight beyond reason. If his insight were reasonable, anyone could do it, but anyone cannot. Only few can, and they are called.

  David Mamet

  Art, Connections, Spontaneous

  David Mamet (2010). “Theatre”, p.91, Macmillan

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