Mike Nichols Quotes

The unconscious is our best collaborator.

Mike Nichols

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• My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • More
  • Consciousness
  • His

• There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Pain
  • Consciousness
  • Without

• If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Together

• I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I destroy it because it's no longer coming from my unconscious.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Painting
  • Destroy
  • Unconscious

• The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

  

  Luciano Berio
  • Music
  • Spiritual
  • Consciousness

• Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Way
  • Consciousness

• I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Good
  • Worry
  • Consciousness

• There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Country
  • Moments

• We're here to learn how to worship consciousness and radiance, evoke it in each other, and tolerate nothing less than our deepest love.

  

  David Deida
  • Consciousness
  • Worship
  • Tolerate

• There is no such thing as a faithless person; we either have faith in the power of love, or faith in the power of fear. For faith is an aspect of consciousness. Have faith in love, and fear will lose its power over you. Have faith in forgiveness, and your self-hatred will fall away. Have faith in miracles, and they will come to you.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Power
  • Fear
  • Faith

• The way to have the life we want is to receive more deeply the life we have. Sometimes we keep our own life at arm's length, thinking we'll wait until circumstances improve before giving it all we've got. But life is just a reflection of consciousness, so it's never going to give any more to us than we give to it. Don't wait for a perfect life; breathe in the life that's already perfect.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Giving

• The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination -- aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence.

  

  Pir Vilayat Khan
  • Earth
  • Sleep
  • Consciousness

• I sometimes feel that I'm impersonating the dark unconscious of the whole human race. I know this sounds sick, but I love it.

  

  Vincent Price
  • Dark
  • Sometimes
  • Sick

• I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Mind
  • Mad
  • Danger

• People often forget our emotional contribution to relationships and to marriage and that might be a completely sexist comment but, what I tried not to do [in "Fences"] is, I tried to just put that monologue as part of my stream of consciousness.

  

  Viola Davis
  • People
  • Emotional
  • Forget

• Man’s consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • World
  • Men
  • Consciousness

• Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness.

  

  William James
  • Literature
  • Philosophy
  • Consciousness

• Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Road
  • Dreams
  • Unconscious

• I wanted to be a composer before anything else. And my sister was listening to Led Zeppelin in the other room! When I heard that, it was a game-changer.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Listening
  • Games
  • Heard

• The Science of Mind is intensely practical because it teaches us how to use the Mind Principle for definite purposes, such as helping those who are sick, impoverished, or unhappy.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Helping

• Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?" "I guess it depends on how you die.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Death
  • Afraid

• He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Man
  • Guilty
  • Veil

• For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my name being called. Then I walked outside.

  

  Rumi
  • Know
  • Outside
  • Copying

• The unconscious is our best collaborator.

  

  Mike Nichols
  • Consciousness
  • Unconscious
  • Collaborators