Unconscious Quotes - Page 23

• Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.

  Mary Oliver

  Arena, Conscious, Walks

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• Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of Sacralizing person and community.

  Ivan Illich

  Latin, America, Community

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The church, change, and development”

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• Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

  John Drinkwater

  Men, Desire, Matter

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.35, Library of Alexandria

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• Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon.

  Mary McCarthy

  Eye, Dragons, White

  Mary McCarthy (1956). “Venice observed”

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• A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.

  Gustav Mahler

  Personality, Robust, Rejects

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• I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out.

  David Chase

  Editors, Trying, Sometimes

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• The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations, inadequate formulation, and unconscious prejudice is rarely appreciated by those who obtain their scientific knowledge from textbooks.

  James Bryant Conant

  Fighting, Science, Prejudice

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• In these times - where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance - what has become our longing to change is really the unconscious desire to control not just the shape of our bodies (according to prevailing values) but to dominate our environment as well, regardless of the cost.

  Guy Finley

  Spiritual, Important, Desire

  "Fear and the ‘Anti-Change Factor’" by Guy Finley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2012.

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• Our unconscious is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle, where work goes on day and night from the time we are born until the moment of our death.

  Milton Sapirstein

  Night, Goes On, Moments

  Milton R. Sapirstein (1955). “Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations”

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• Be aware of the words that go into your mind, both conscious and unconscious, because words and ideas can be great tools for your mind to use in coming to appropriate decisions. Remember that a statement spoken in spiritual consciousness can contain great spiritual power. Speaking powerful words of love changes things and outer circumstances as well as consciousness itself.

  John Templeton

  Spiritual, Powerful, Ideas

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• Our negative thoughts are valuable messages to us about our deeper fears and negative attitudes. These usually are so basic to our thinking and feeling that we don't realize they are beliefs at all. We assume that they are simply "the way life is." We may be consciously affirming and visualizing prosperity, but if our unconscious belief is that we don't deserve it, then we won't create it. Once we become aware of our core negative beliefs, they begin to heal.

  Shakti Gawain

  Attitude, Thinking, Feelings

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations”, New World Library

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• 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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• Paint right into the darkness. While painting in these conditions the mind shifts gears, engaging the unconscious. Unique 'insights' happen in the dark.

  Allison Mackie

  Dark, Unique, Mind

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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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• Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.

  Terry Eagleton

  Political, Occupation, Invasion

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• Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.

  Constance Rourke

  Art, Humor, Civilization

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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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• I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled home, my parents thought I was making it up. However, when my brother and I fabricated a story about an encounter with a bear, they believed that! So maybe I learned very early on that fiction was more interesting to listeners!

  Sharon Creech

  Brother, Home, Feet

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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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