Hypnotic Quotes

• When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.

  John Fahey

  Light, Play, Drawing

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• Show me your sun. The rhythm of your eyes. Love is not as certain as this hypnotic time.

  Gustavo Cerati

  Eye, Love Is, Sun

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• A myth is a fantasy, a preferred lie, a foundational story, a hypnotic trance, an identity game, a virtual reality, one that can be either inspirational or despairing. It is a story in which I cast myself; it is my inner cinema, the motion picture of my inner reality - one that moves all the time. No diagnosis can fix the myth, no cure can settle it, because our inner life is precisely what, in us, will not lie still.

  Ginette Paris

  Lying, Moving, Reality

  Ginette Paris (2013). “Wisdom of the Psyche: Depth Psychology After Neuroscience”, p.81, Routledge

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• Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are willing victims to the spell.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Flying, Pilots, Victim

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• We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

  Vernon Howard

  Emotional, Feelings, Assuming

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• One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.

  Fritz Kreisler

  Eye, Mind, Lines

  Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.8, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

  Havelock Ellis

  Religion, Atheism, Connections

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• I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.

  Eric Clapton

  Mean, Guitar, People

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• My kids are fanatical about 'Scooby-Doo,' and I think that the creators of 'Scooby-Doo' somehow tripped across some kind of magical hypnotic formula that lures children. It's far more fascinating to them than anything else on the air.

  Dave Willis

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  "Dana Snyder and Dave Willis on Aqua Teen Hunger Force's limitless potential". Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. November 11, 2009.

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• It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Men, Ideas, Evil

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

  R. D. Laing

  Infancy Is, Trance, Posts

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• Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze.

  Albert Einstein

  Creativity, Thinking, Understanding

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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

  Hypnosis, People, Deceit

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• There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Yoga, Exercise, Meditation

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe.

  Laurie R. King

  Two, Smoking, Yards

  Laurie R. King (2012). “O Jerusalem”, p.119, Allison & Busby

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• If you were listening to the hypnotic voice of your Source, you'd be constantly hearing the drum beating that says, 'You are loved, and you are worthy, and you are valued and life is supposed to be good for you. You are worthy, you are valued, you are loved and life is supposed to be good for you.'

  Esther Hicks

  Self Esteem, Voice, Listening

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• ... and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.

  Roald Dahl

  Mind, Spells, Listeners

  Roald Dahl (2012). “Switch Bitch”, p.9, Penguin

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• A woman with confidence is hypnotic. A smile is mesmerizing. Presence, openness, a sense of humor—these are all things that make a woman attractive. We’ve all experienced the presence of someone who walks in and lights up a room. It’s never about their looks but about their energy. Allow yourself to light up the room by being your beautiful self.

  Jessica Ortner

  Beautiful, Light, Self

  FaceBook post by Jessica Ortner from May 08, 2014

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• He was telling the students about the hypnotic technique of using quotes in a conversation. An idea is more palatable ... if it comes from someone else. The unconscious thinks in terms of content and structure. If you introduce a pattern with the words, 'My friend was telling me,' the critical part of her mind shuts off.

  Neil Strauss

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.117, Canongate Books

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• If you say to yourself 'It's difficult to get up in the morning', 'It's hard to cease smoking', then you are already using hypnotic suggestions on yourself

  Richard Bandler

  Morning, Smoking, Suggestions

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• I also learned to play Fruit Ninja on an iPad. It is quite hypnotic, and I hope one day to get past 100 points. I remembered that David Cameron admits to being an addict. I wonder if it helps him in his work. 'Great, just destroyed a pineapple! Reminds me, shall we send those grenades to the Syrian rebels?'

  Simon Hoggart

  Past, Play, Ipads

  "Simon Hoggart's week: the new Christmas traditions" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2012.

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• Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of information jeopardizing meaning. Everybody's talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell.

  Maureen Dowd

  Party, Talking, Cocktail Parties

  "Lost in Space" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. April 23, 2013.

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• Think of it : zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these truths identical, and all logically incompatible with one another : 'My hereditary material is the most important material on earth; its survival justifies your frustration, pain, even death'. And you are one of those organisms, living your life in the thrall of a logical absurdity.

  Robert Wright

  Running, Pain, Frustration

  Robert Wright (2010). “The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology”, p.440, Vintage

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• To live sanely in Los Angeles ... you have to cultivate the art of staying awake. You must learn to resist (firmly but not tensely) the unceasing hypnotic suggestions of the radio, the billboards, the movies and the newspapers; those demon voices which are forever whispering in your ear what you should desire, what you should fear, what you should wear and eat and drink and enjoy, what you should think and do and be.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Art, Thinking, Voice

  Christopher Isherwood (1966). “Exhumations: Stories, Articles, Verses”

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• Cars can have a hypnotic effect. You can get in a car and get out and not really remember the trip.

  Ryan Gosling

  Car, Remember, Effects

  Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2011.

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