Subconscious Quotes

• A leaf that falls into a stream (or a leaf we intentionally drop into a stream) just where the water disappears into the ground...will come out again at the next opening, because the underground stream has faithfully carried it there, though during this journey it has been beyond the reach of any outside interference. In the same way, an idea that has been introduced into our minds (or that we ourselves have intentionally introduced) will produce its effects after longer or shorter subconscious development.

  

  Charles Baudouin
  • Mind
  • Fall
  • Water

• You contain a universe inside yourself. There's no end to it - your conscious, your subconscious. There is no limit to what's inside you. We are very much connected. There's no end to it.

  

  Ann Shulgin
  • Universe
  • Inside
  • Subconscious

• It took me better than a quarter century to learn, the hard way, that hard work at something you want to be doing is the most fun that you can have out of bed . . . to learn that the smart man finds ways to make everything he does be work; to learn that "leisure" time is truly pleasurable (indeed tolerable) only to the extent that is its subconscious grazing for information with which to infuse newer, better work.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • Fun
  • Smart
  • Information

• I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! But then the gaps would emerge that could only be filled by the imagination. And imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Imagination
  • Enough
  • Procrastination

• Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.

  

  Austin Osman Spare
  • Art
  • Knowledge
  • Subconscious

• All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff. Everything else is fake.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Real
  • Stories
  • Fake

• I've always used masks. I think it's a lot about the fact that masks often reveal a sort of subconscious element to a character. The mask is carved and given an expression or markings to reveal something, even though it's shielding the face. Even though it's hiding the face, it seems to reveal something underneath.

  

  Dave McKean
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Expression

• I'll hear something in my head, then eventually play it. But it's a subconscious thing. Most of the time I really don't know what I'm playing.

  

  Tommy Bolin
  • Play
  • Knows
  • Subconscious

• The goal of dream study is to increase one's contact with and access to the abilities of their subconscious mind. I became interested in dreams as an avenue to increase my knowledge of the subconscious mind, and increase my psychological and emotional effectiveness. I have been recording my dreams since I was seventeen.

  

  Charles McPhee
  • Mind
  • Dream
  • Study

• I can't write from the subconscious actually, because a lot of the time when I co-write with other people, I'm writing for them as opposed to for myself. When it comes to lyrics, I tend to want to give them their voice, since it's most likely going to be on their record, or somebody else's record. And I find for more commerial-style music, people want simplicity, less vagueness, and less space to fill between the lines, so to speak. So I can't be quite as ethereal and mystical.

  

  Gary Louris
  • People
  • Writing
  • Speak

• Subconscious is motivated by emotion, right? Not reason.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Reason
  • Emotion
  • Motivated

• Your subconscious protects you. It's all about listening to it.

  

  Nitin Sawhney
  • Listening
  • Protect
  • Subconscious

• Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Imagination
  • Privilege
  • Procrastination

• An affirmation is almost like a mantra. It does not really matter if what you are affirming is not totally true as yet. By repeating an affirmation over and over again, it becomes embedded in the subconscious mind, and eventually it becomes your reality.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Affirmation

• The mind doesn't know anything about age, your subconscious mind knows nothing about time or space. And so, I am hanging around young people all the time and I operate like they do. I don't think of myself as being old.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Space
  • Subconscious
  • Operate

• I'd say to myself: "This is my dream, this is my wish." Because a wish is more than a wish. It is a goal. It is something your conscious and subconscious can help make reality.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Dream
  • Wish
  • Conscious

• I don't decide. My secret self decides. I just go with my subconscious. If it wants to do a poem, I do a poem, and if it wants to do a play, I do a play. So I'm not in charge, I'm not in control.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Play
  • Secret
  • Subconscious

• All my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just kidding themselves that they decide anything at all. All they do is think up reasons for the decisions that are already made.

  

  Rex Stout
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Decision

• The subconscious part in us is called the subjective mind, because it does not decide and command. It is subject rather than a ruler. Its nature is to do what it is told, or what really in your heart of hearts you desire.

  

  William Thomas Walsh
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Desire

• The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Mind
  • Conscious
  • Subconscious

• Some are exploring the world through the subconscious. I've done that on occasions for various reasons, whether it be illness or self abuse, or whatever. Once things start to look grotesque I don't write them or sing them. I couldn't write them - making nightmares into living daylight...The minute it gets dark I shoot back, retreat.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • World
  • Subconscious
  • Exploring

• The Subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what's real and what's imagined.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Difference
  • Imagined
  • Subconscious

• I try to dig deep into the well of my subconscious. At a certain moment in that process, the lid is opened and very different ideas and visions are liberated. With those I can start making a film. But maybe it's better that you don't open that lid completely, because if you release your subconscious it becomes really hard to live a social or family life.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Family

• I write all of my novels and stories, as you have seen, in a great surge of delightful passion. Only recently, glancing at the novel, I realized that Montag is named after a paper manufacturing company. And Faber, of course, is a maker of pencils! What a sly thing my subconscious was, to name them thus. And not tell me!

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Passion
  • Novel

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