Unconscious Quotes - Page 4

• So where do the ideas-the salable ideas-come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the ones that hide just beyond the doorway that separates the conscious from the unconscious.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Night, Ideas

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• Pay attention to the inner voice that tells you when something feels right. Much of your creative problem-solving occurs at an unconscious level.

  Nita Leland

  Voice, Creative, Attention

  Nita Leland (2006). “The New Creative Artist”, p.18, North Light Books

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• Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Memories, Essentials, Who We Are

  Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.38, Macmillan

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• We must all acknowledge our unconscious biases, and listen with less bias when women, and others who are marginalized, speak out. A lot of change is possible by just acknowledging unconscious bias - that exhaustively documented but unpleasant reality many would rather ignore - and listening with less bias and acting on what we then learn.

  Tara Moss

  Reality, Listening, Acting

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.

  Marion LeRoy Burton

  Character, Law, Self Improvement

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• The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’ his ‘English prep’ and has no notion that ethics, theology, and politics are all at stake. It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all.

  C. S. Lewis

  Boys, Thinking, Years

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• An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving.

  M. Scott Peck

  Lying, Order, White

  M. Scott Peck (2015). “The Different Drum: Community-making and peace”, p.88, Random House

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• Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Hate, Ignorance, Wings

  "Garofalo: Tea Party Goers Are Racists Who Hate Black President". "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.newsbusters.org. April 16, 2009.

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• Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad thing - the unconscious has dealt me a bad hand.

  William Gibson

  Hands, Looks, Written

  "William Gibson: I really can’t predict the future". Interview with Mike Doherty, www.salon.com. January 22, 2012.

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• The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

  Heinrich Heine

  Men, Action, Instruments

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• I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Ideas

  "He Knew He Was Right" by Ian Parker, www.newyorker.com. October 16, 2006.

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• The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  People, Lovable, Haitian

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• Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Technology, Men, Chains That Bind

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.17, Cambridge University Press

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• There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.

  Doris Lessing

  Girl, Growing Up, Boys

  "'I have nothing in common with feminists. They never seem to think that one might enjoy men'". Interview with Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2001.

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• The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with.

  Terence McKenna

  Sky, Waiting, Forever

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• The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.

  Steven Pinker

  Thinking, Rational, Tacit

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• I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Littles, Painting

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

  Manuel Puig

  Writing, Order, Imagination

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• It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

  Manuel Puig

  Novel, Facade, Aesthetic

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• I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

  Man Ray

  Dream, Art, Collective Unconscious

  "Man Ray: Photographer". Interview with Philippe Sers in Camera, 1981.

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• Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.

  Herbert Read

  Adults, Problem, Forget

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds.

  Anne Roiphe

  Reading, Writing, Choices

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• I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.

  Wallace Shawn

  Beautiful, Men, People

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

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• I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Doors, Way, My Own

  "The Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. November 13, 2009.

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• I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.

  Will Smith

  Thinking, Collective Unconscious, Ideas

  "Will Smith Interview - I AM LEGEND". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. December 10, 2007.

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