Unconscious Quotes - Page 19

• Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a speech, travel-but rather by the symbolic and often unconscious representations.

  Willard Gaylin

  Worry, Imagination, Anxiety

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• I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Surroundings, Suffragists, Temperament

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.7, 谷月社

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• I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical.

  Janet Fitch

  Book, Writing, Mean

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• Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.

  Terry Eagleton

  Political, Occupation, Invasion

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• Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.

  Constance Rourke

  Art, Humor, Civilization

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• As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to be scared when there is so much violence and craziness in the world. People still really enjoy being scared. It's a conundrum to me. It's hard to explain. It's an unconscious thing, really, why people like that so much.

  Dylan McDermott

  Thinking, People, World

  "Dylan McDermott Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, His New Role on the Show, Why the Show Resonates with Viewers and Returning for Season 3". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 20, 2012.

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• Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative/intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience.

  Willis Harman

  Block, Real, Keys

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• I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.

  William Peter Blatty

  Directors, Unnoticed, Happens

  Interview with Lucy A. Snyder, www.lucysnyder.com. July 26, 1999.

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• We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.

  Anne Carson

  Struggle, Mean, Talking

  "The Inscrutable Brilliance of Anne Carson". Interview with Sam Anderson, www.nytimes.com. March 14, 2013.

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• I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled home, my parents thought I was making it up. However, when my brother and I fabricated a story about an encounter with a bear, they believed that! So maybe I learned very early on that fiction was more interesting to listeners!

  Sharon Creech

  Brother, Home, Feet

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• The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

  Jennifer Egan

  Effort, Lines, Firsts

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• America was founded by puritans and like it or not the anti-pleasure dogma of those buckled-shoed killjoys still pervades our collective unconscious like an I-max shot of Dennis Franz's naked hairy cop ass. Hence, anything enjoyable is automatically forbidden and bad and in our panic to avoid it at all cost we become obsessed with it... like dressing up in a pink teddy and a pair of ugboots and repeatedly screaming the word 'VERBOTEN!' into a conk shell balanced on the back on a miniature pony... Oh, I see.. That would just be me.

  Dennis Miller

  America, Collective Unconscious, Dressing Up

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• The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Collective Unconscious

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the painter have brought such wondrous treasures-an unfailing fountain of intellectual enjoyment, where all may drink, and be awakened to a deeper feeling of the works of genius, and a keener perception of the beauty of our existence. For those whose days are all consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolities of fashion, unobservant of nature's loveliness, are unconscious of the harmony of creation

  Thomas Cole

  Fashion, Nature, Feelings

  Thomas Cole (1980). “The collected essays and prose sketches”

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• The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Writing, Ideas, Scripts

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• I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn't a struggle, there wasn't an attempt to suppress.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Struggle, Closets, Felt

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

  Manuel Puig

  Literature, Way, Environment

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• When I write an email where I outlined a whole scene, it just came out of my unconscious, it comes from a deeper place. The same thing happens when the actors go, take after take, and just get lost in it. When you're in a house, you don't think about being in the house; you're just there.

  David O. Russell

  Writing, Thinking, House

  "David O. Russell is back in the neighbourhood" by Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 15, 2012.

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• Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Poet, Conscious

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.113, eKitap Projesi

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• There is a world of deaf, dumb and blind people out there, who are shuffling through their lives, not knowing how wonderful life can be. They have their moments, but they are very unconscious.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Knowing, People

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• Human beings going to their jobs and living their lives are unconscious. They don't know what's going on. They don't know why you are born or why you die.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, Buddhism, Humanity

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• I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Writing, Artist, Guy

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• Writing is like meditation or going into an ESP trance, or prayer. Like dreaming. You are tapping into your unconscious. To be fully conscious and alert, with life banging and popping and cuckooing all around, you are not going to find your way to your subconscious, which is a place of complete submission.

  Carolyn Chute

  Dream, Prayer, Writing

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• All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation.

  Michael Chekhov

  Artist, Desire, Bears

  Michael Chekhov, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ (1963). “To the director and playwright”

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• The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning.

  Jacques Lacan

  Morning, Baltimore, Early Morning

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