Mike Nichols Quotes
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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
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There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
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If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.
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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.
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The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
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Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.
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I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.
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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.
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We're here to learn how to worship consciousness and radiance, evoke it in each other, and tolerate nothing less than our deepest love.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I sometimes feel that I'm impersonating the dark unconscious of the whole human race. I know this sounds sick, but I love it.
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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.
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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.
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Man’s consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.
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Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness.
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Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.
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To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.
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Consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all existence.
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Our mind is so fortunately equipped, that it brings us the most important bases for our thoughts without our having the least knowledge of this work of elaboration. Only the results of it become unconscious.
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I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories.
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Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.
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The unconscious is our best collaborator.
