Unconscious Quotes - Page 29

• I try to write every day. I don't beat myself up about word counts, or how many hours are ticking by on the clock before I'm allowed to go and do something else. I just try to keep a hand in and work every single day, even if there are other demands or I'm on a book tour or have the flu or something, because then I keep my unconscious engaged with the book. Then I'm always a little bit writing, no matter what else I'm doing.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Book, Writing, Hands

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2007.

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• When someone you love truly dies, you have to find them over and over again in the world, and I think you do that on a very psychic, unconscious level, and I think in some ways I was calling out to that spirit of my mother when I saw the fox. It doesn't surprise me it's in animals that I find my mother.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Animal, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Something we do know is that review coverage does go to male authors more than women authors. That's a fact. I think it's one of those examples of unconscious bias: If you hire a lot of male journalists, they're more likely to pick up the latest Ian McEwan novel than the latest A.S. Byatt novel.

  Emma Donoghue

  Thinking, Facts, Males

  "Room" Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her "Deeply Feminist" Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason for writing the book. [...] The other motive is unconscious. There is something deeply psychological and emotional that draws me to the material in the first place.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Book, Writing, Emotional

  Interview with Juliette Lewis, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties.

  David Whyte

  Loss, Dishonesty, Conscious

  Source: spiritualityhealth.com

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• One of the reasons there may be a trend toward moving out of the cities, again, it may be conscious or it may be unconscious, but it is a desire to connect more with nature. And with the natural rhythms. We [people] need that! We've been missing it.

  Shakti Gawain

  Moving, Cities, People

  "An interview with Shakti Gawain about transformation locally and globally". Lotus Guide interview, lotusguide.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Our inner weighing of evidence is not a careful mathematical calculation resulting in a probabilistic estimate of truth, but more like a whirlpool blending of the objective and the personal. The result is a set of beliefs - both conscious and unconscious - that guide us in interpreting all the events of our lives.

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Events, Belief, Conscious

  Deepak Chopra, Leonard Mlodinow (2011). “War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not”, p.270, Harmony

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• Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Evil, World

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.210, Psychology Press

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• There is this tendency to think that if you could only find the magic way, then you could become a poet. "Tell me how to become a poet. Tell me what to do." . . . What makes you a poet is a gift for language, an ability to see into the heart of things, and an ability to deal with important unconscious material. When all these things come together, you're a poet. But there isn't one little gimmick that makes you a poet. There isn't any formula for it.

  Erica Jong

  Heart, Thinking, Magic

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• If people knew how badly animals were treated in today's factory farms, if people knew how completely confined and immobilized these creatures are for their entire lives, if people knew how severe and unrelenting is the cruelty these animals are forced to endure, there would be change. If people knew. But too many of us choose to look the other way, to keep the veil in place, to remain unconscious and caught in the cultural trance. That way we are more comfortable. That way is convenient. That way we don' t have to risk too much. This is how we keep ourselves asleep.

  John Robbins

  Animal, People, Risk

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• The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious...that unconscious which has more understanding than our lucidity.

  Edgard Varese

  Art, Understanding, Treasure

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• The professional tackles the project that will make him stretch. He takes on the assignment that will bear him into uncharted waters, compel him to explore unconscious parts of himself. Is he scared? Hell, yes. He's petrified.

  Steven Pressfield

  Uncharted Waters, Bears, Scared

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.40, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• I begin painting and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself, under my brush. The form becomes a sign for a woman or a bird as I work... The first stage is free, unconscious... the second stage is carefully calculated.

  Joan Miro

  Bird, Firsts, Painting

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• You see, in the image of Aquarius, it's a man who pours water into the fish. Now the fish is the unconscious. It is not enough just to have it. We have to actively turn towards it and support it so that it then helps us.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Men, Aquarius, Water

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• For a woman to direct a movie in Hollywood, she has to go through so many layers of rejection by the powers that be - I suppose including myself - that it is harder to get to that point. So you can't just create something. And I think there is a whole unconscious mountain.

  Amy Pascal

  Thinking, Rejection, Mountain

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Unconscious decisions for action go on constantly inside the head.

  Robert E. Ornstein

  Decision, Goes On, Action

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• As soon as the dialogue between two people touches on something fundamental, essential, numinous, and a certain rapport is felt, it gives rise to a phenomenon which Lévy-Bruhl fittingly called participation mystique. It is an unconscious identity in which two individual psychic spheres interpenetrate to such a degree that it is impossible to say what belongs to whom.

  Carl Jung

  Psychics, Two, People

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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• Information storage has to take place at the unconscious level.

  Paul G

  Levels, Information, Storage

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• Well, I know I'm back in America now. I've been knocked unconscious.

  Rupert Giles

  America, I'm Back, Wells

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer/ Flooded". October 2001.

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• At the core of One Spirit Medicine is the idea that how we perceive the world 'out there' is a projection of internal maps that shape our beliefs and guide how we think, feel and behave. These maps are the unconscious programs that drive our experience of life and the state of our health. The key to optimum health is to upgrade these unconscious maps and limiting beliefs that have been driving us to a toxic lifestyle and relationships.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Thinking, Ideas, Medicine

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• There's a lot of unconscious activity that goes on I think in the composition of a poem.

  Billy Collins

  Thinking, Goes On, Composition

  "Poet Billy Collins discusses humor, authenticity and ‘Aimless Love’". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. October 29, 2013.

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• Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Believe, Men, Causes

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.99, Commodius Vicus

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• There is no sense talking about "being true to yourself" until you are sure what voice you are being true to. It takes hard work to differentiate the voices of the unconscious.

  Marion Woodman

  Hard Work, Talking, Voice

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• Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Thinking, Talent, Moments

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• All that we know about the interaction between leaders and constituents or followers tells us that communication and influence flow in both directions; and in that two-way communication, nonrational, nonverbal, and unconscious elements play their part.

  John W. Gardner

  Communication, Play, Two

  John W. Gardner (1988). “Leadership: An Overview”

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