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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• What happened to cause the jail fight? (Maggie) They thought it would be fun to knock around the ‘kid’ and show off their manhood. I thought it would be fun to knock a couple of them unconscious. (Wren)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Couple, Fun, Kids

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• I do know I felt as if my heart had been shredded when I found you in our storeroom, unconscious and bleeding. And leaving you with Vinco in the holding cells was the hardest thing I've ever done." - Riley to Trella

  Maria V. Snyder

  Heart, Cells, Found You

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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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• The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Karma, Thinking, Imagination

  William Irwin Thompson (1987). “Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology”, Inner Traditions International

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• Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to - alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a person - you are using something or somebody to cover up your pain.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Moving, Addiction

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.152, New World Library

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• White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority of some, while others are believed to be innately inferior. And it doesn't demand the individual participation of the singular bigot. It is a machine operating in perpetuity, because it doesn't demand that somebody be in place driving.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  White, Machines, Demand

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• We live in a world where finding fault in others seems to be the favorite blood sport. It has long been the basis of political campaign strategy. It is the theme of much television programming across the world. It sells newspapers. Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Sports, Blood, Long

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• You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your 'love map,' an unconscious list of traits that you build in childhood as you grow up. And I also think that you gravitate to certain people, actually, with somewhat complementary brain systems.

  Helen Fisher

  Falling In Love, Growing Up, Thinking

  "Sharing The Good Life". Prezi Inc., prezi.com. November 15, 2013.

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• Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of its non-fulfillment. Every dominant fear generates a nightmare, sometimes in form of explicit and conscious fanaticism, sometimes in paralyzing timidity, sometimes in an unconscious or subconscious terror which finds expression only in dreams. The man who wishes to preserve sanity in a dangerous world should summon in his own mind a parliament of fears, in which each in turn is voted absurd by all the others.

  Bertrand Russell

  Dream, Passion, Men

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• there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations

  Mark Twain

  Teaching, Writing, Character

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• Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

  Ezra Pound

  Speak, Oppression, Tyranny

  Ezra Pound (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)”, p.433, Delphi Classics

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• I love to sleep. Do you? Isn't it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious.

  Rita Rudner

  Sleep, Alive, World

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• I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps because in the state of slumber we can do no wrong and are unconscious of life, the greatest criminal and most self- absorbed egotist are holy, by a natural magic, as long as they're sleeping. For me there's no discernible difference between killing a child and killing a sleeping man.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Children, Sleep, Men

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• A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are willing to leave its inner mental processes alone.

  Northrop Frye

  Criticism, Doe, May

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.89, Princeton University Press

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• Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil---the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

  William George Jordan

  Leadership, Business, Men

  William George Jordan (2017). “The Majesty of Calmness - Individual Problems and Possibilities”, p.11, Read Books Ltd

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• Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas are true...written deep within us. And when we hear the truth, even if we don't understand it, we feel that truth resonate within us...vibrating with our unconscious wisdom. Perhaps the truth is not learned by us, but rather, the truth is re-called...re-membered...-re-cognized...as that which is already inside us.

  Dan Brown

  Ideas, Truth Is, Deep Within

  Dan Brown (2017). “Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon Series”, p.1457, Random House

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• There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. […] There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves.[…]The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Humility, Pride

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