Subliminal Quotes

• I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Business, Humor

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• If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

  William James

  Doors, Miracle, Grace

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.270, Courier Corporation

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• I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.

  Robert Wyatt

  Sports, Fashion, Thinking

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• Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

  Carter Burwell

  Adhesive, Narrative, Film

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• In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.

  Ziggy Marley

  Spiritual, Song, Sex

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

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• If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Self, Media, Transformation

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• Subliminal is about how we misinterpret our behavior because were unaware of what our unconscious minds are doing.

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Mind, Behavior, Unconscious

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• As an individual becomes aware of subliminal phenomena, the shock may cause him some initial physical or emotional discomfort - possibly even concern over his sanity.

  Wilson Bryan Key

  Emotional, May, Causes

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• I've always had a feeling that the image is 50% of the emotion that an audience feels and it's subliminal. Yet, how you arrange the elements in front of a camera has an impact on people's belief about that world in some way.

  Scott Hicks

  Impact, People, Feelings

  Source: collider.com

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• In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.

  Douglas Adams

  Stress, Giving, Tiny

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.24, Pan Macmillan

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• You can ignite the senses and directly alter their state of mind and body through this scent, sparking a subliminal key to attraction.

  Charlotte Tilbury

  Mind, Attraction, State Of Mind

  "Charlotte Tilbury Just Created Your Dream Fragrance and Eye Shadow Palette". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.popsugar.com. August 15, 2016.

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• The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Light, Essence, Joy

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• I had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure - and maybe the best kind of exposure, because I think first impressions are very important. Maybe I notice stuff that is just subliminal to people who live here all the time.

  Lee Child

  Thinking, Years, America

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• Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like.

  Edward Burtynsky

  Activism

  "As nature bleeds, Edward Burtynsky gets the big picture" by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. July 6, 2005.

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• To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.

  Susan Sontag

  Gun, People, Cameras

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.16, Macmillan

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• Brains distinguish between an Us and a Them in a fraction of a second. Subliminal processing of a Them activates the amygdala and insular cortex, brain regions that are all about fear, anxiety, aggression, and disgust.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Anxiety, Brain, Fractions

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Emotional, Impact, Atmosphere

  Tariq Ramadan (2010). “The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism”, p.141, Penguin UK

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• The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine.

  Henri Poincare

  Self, Intuition, Way

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• I started realizing that one of the great things about opera is that if you make the right kind of story, you can still have this kind of abstract subliminal quality to take you on a journey, but you can root it just enough in a particular situation, a particular kind of real situation that a person might have, or a particular context in the real world.

  Tod Machover

  Real, Journey, Roots

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Subliminal perception is a subject that virtually no one wants to believe exists, and -- if it does exist -- they much less believe that it has any practical application. . . . The techniques are in widespread use by media, advertising and public relations agencies, industrial and commercial corporations, and by the Federal government itself.

  Wilson Bryan Key

  Believe, Government, Media

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• Perhaps, if we don't always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is not so easily erased.

  Eva Hoffman

  Memories, Past, Conscious

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• We had to sit in this courtroom in Reno for six weeks. It was like Disneyworld. We had no idea what a subliminal message was - it was just a combination of some weird guitar sounds, and the way I exhaled between lyrics. I had to sing 'Better by You, Better Than Me' in court, a cappella. I think that was when the judge thought, 'What am I doing here? No band goes out of its way to kill its fans'.

  Rob Halford

  Thinking, Guitar, Ideas

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• Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious consumption. They are intended as subliminal pills for the subconsious in order to exercise an hypnotic spell, especially on sociologists.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Exercise, Order, Pills

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• What better metaphor for the subliminal state than capitalism? This whole notion that you're trying to do good and make things good for the world, but at the same time the reality is that you have to eat other people to end up on top.

  Owen Pallett

  Reality, People, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Manufactured meaning has already been implanted in the unconscious through language and subliminal messages. This is why it is not wise to trust or believe our thoughts/words or the meanings. We intuitively know what is true and false and all that is needed to be known in each moment.

  Terry Cole-Whittaker

  Wise, Believe, Language

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