Hypnosis Quotes

• The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Love Life, Self Control

  'The Descent of Man' (1871) ch. 4

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• There are no limitations, unless you create them yourselves. Anything is possible. You are only limited by your own imagination.

  Dolores Cannon

  Imagination, Limits, Possibility

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• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "Humor, Play, & Laughter : Stress-proofing Life with Your Kids" by Joseph A. Michelli, (p. 88), 1998.

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• You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Mean, Climate, Use

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• The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

  Carl Rogers

  Change, Appreciation, Self

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• Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, Teacher, Congratulations

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.122, Lulu.com

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• Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Intelligent, Power, Self Discipline

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• The collective dream is the hypnosis of social conditioning. Only sages, psychotics & geniuses manage to break free.

  Deepak Chopra

  Dream, Genius, Sage

  Twitter post from Jul 22, 2010

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• Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

  Aesop

  Literature, Persuasion, Force

  "The Wind and the Sun". A fable by Aesop,

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• I should have done it years ago. It's amazing I didn't even want cigarettes anymore.

  Matt Damon

  Should Have, Years, Done

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• Want to lose weight? Kick a bad habit? Well you might want to try hypnosis! ... no longer regarded as mere hocus-pocus, it's been shown as an effective means of helping people quit smoking, shed pounds, reduce stress, and end phobias.

  Jane Pauley

  Stress, Mean, People

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• An idea accepted as true from any source can be every bit as powerful as hypnosis.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Powerful, Ideas, Cybernetics

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.40, Penguin

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• Although we think that we think, most of the time we are being thought by the collective mind, the hypnosis of conditioning.

  Deepak Chopra

  Thinking, Mind, Conditioning

  Twitter post from Dec 22, 2010

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• During the first seven years, every society tries to condition the mind - and conditioning means nothing but hypnosis: forcing authority, law, tradition, religion, scripture, the priest, the church, into the innermost unconscious of the child so that from there you can control him.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Mean, Years

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• When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinking about the fact that I'm thinking about it. I just want to be in it. It's one element of hypnosis.

  Miranda July

  Writing, Thinking, Self

  "This much I know: Miranda July" by Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2011.

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• Part of being an actor is almost self-hypnosis during those brief moments when the cameras are rolling. You want to actually believe you're Chris Gardner or Muhammad Ali.

  Will Smith

  Believe, Self, Want

  "Will Smith The Pursuit of Happyness Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• You can not make someone love you. You can not be thin enough or white enough or famous enough. The choice is entirely the other person's. Then again, you might try hypnosis.

  Jessica Zafra

  Love You, White, Choices

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• I think hypnosis is entertaining. I believe it's real.

  Sean Hannity

  Real, Believe, Thinking

  "Medium John Edward Explains Ability". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. June 17, 2009.

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• As you begin this day, tell yourself, Today I am incarnated anew! I am released from the hypnosis of my old habits and mistakes! Everything that I have long dreamed of doing I will accomplish in this, my new life.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Life, Mistake, Old Habits

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• Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

  Charles Fort

  People, Deceit, Saws

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• I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.

  Christy Turlington

  Acupuncture, Patches, Found

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• It would be a fine thing, in which I hardly dare believe, to pass our lives near each other, hypnotized by our dreams.

  Pierre Curie

  Love, Dream, Soulmate

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• In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Speech, Firsts

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.148, Aeterna Press

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• If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Rocks

  Mike Douglas Show in 1972. "John Lennon: In His Own Words", Book by Ken Lawrence, p. 107, 2005.

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• As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Men, President, Twenties

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