Unconscious Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• 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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• The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Collective Unconscious

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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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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• The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Writing, Ideas, Scripts

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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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• There is a world of deaf, dumb and blind people out there, who are shuffling through their lives, not knowing how wonderful life can be. They have their moments, but they are very unconscious.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Knowing, People

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• Human beings going to their jobs and living their lives are unconscious. They don't know what's going on. They don't know why you are born or why you die.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, Buddhism, Humanity

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• I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Writing, Artist, Guy

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• Writing is like meditation or going into an ESP trance, or prayer. Like dreaming. You are tapping into your unconscious. To be fully conscious and alert, with life banging and popping and cuckooing all around, you are not going to find your way to your subconscious, which is a place of complete submission.

  Carolyn Chute

  Dream, Prayer, Writing

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• All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation.

  Michael Chekhov

  Artist, Desire, Bears

  Michael Chekhov, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ (1963). “To the director and playwright”

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• The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning.

  Jacques Lacan

  Morning, Baltimore, Early Morning

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• He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Arrogance, Taft, Littles

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• No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.

  Gregory Bateson

  Levels, Matter, Conscious

  Gregory Bateson (1972). “Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology”, p.143, University of Chicago Press

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• In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Children, Mean, Blessing

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• It’s interesting that most gadgets are called ‘iPhone’ and ‘iPod,’ with that ‘i’ prefix, which is ego. But most creativity is not ego-led – a lot of it comes from the unconscious. So if you’re always checking your email or updating your Instagram profile, you’re not just looking out the window, daydreaming. You’ve got to let the subconscious in – that’s my main message to the world.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Creativity, Iphone, Ipods

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, November 21, 2014.

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• This Law -- whether Conscious or Unconscious --predestines nothing and no one. It exists from and in Eternity, truly, for it is ETERNITY itself; and as such, since no act can be co-equal with eternity, it cannot be said to act, for it is ACTION itself...Karma creates nothing, nor does it design. It is man who plans and creates causes, and Karmic law adjusts the effects; which adjustment is not an act, but universal harmony, tending ever to resume its original position.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Karma, Men, Law

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• To stop thought it's necessary to put your life into a state of balance. Otherwise you can sit and meditate for hours and all kinds of conscious and unconscious thoughts will flow through you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Unconscious Thoughts, Balance, Flow

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• Most wonderful things are unconscious.

  Agnes Denes

  Wonderful, Wonderful Things

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Mistake, Eye, Imagination

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