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We are almost always less or more competent than we believe ourselves to be. The unconscious,however, knows who we really are. — M. Scott Peck

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free. — Manuel Puig

The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. — Terence McKenna

The unconscious is our best collaborator. — Mike Nichols

Don't cling to anything. Clinging is the cause of our being unconscious. — Rajneesh

In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful. — Freya Stark

I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls. — Wallace Shawn

Studies show that even a brief connection with a role model can vastly increase unconscious motivation. — Daniel Coyle

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. — D.H. Lawrence

I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death. — John Harvey Kellogg

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

There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration. — Bram Stoker

Some imitation is involuntary and unconscious. — Robert Aris Willmott

Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see. — Terry Tempest Williams

Yours is the face that matters most. So yours is the one I wear. My unconscious reflection of you. — Jodi Meadows

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. — Karl Kraus

Awareness means Presence, and only Presence can dissolve the unconscious past in you. — Eckhart Tolle

A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. — Anna Brownell Jameson

Snap judgments are, first of all, enormously quick: they rely on the thinnest slices of experience. But they are also unconscious. — Malcolm Gladwell

The stuff of nightmares is not only relegated to unconscious thoughts upon a pillow, safely beneath an eiderdown. — P.J. Parker

Conscious practice becomes unconscious practice. — Ted Agon

An intuition is neither caprice nor a sixth sense but a form of unconscious intelligence. — Gerd Gigerenzer

Elite competitors manage their unconscious minds by mastering their conscious thoughts. — Stan Beecham

Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious. — Mary Oliver

Silence, is the mother of prayer, a return from the captivity of sin, unconscious success in virtue, a continuous ascension to heaven. — St. John Climacus

I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated. — Anna Deavere Smith

Modeling teaches you to be completely conscious of the camera. Acting is being totally unconscious of it. — Phoebe Cates

We lie to reflect the aspirational goals that we unconsciously know we will not uphold. — Cortney S. Warren

Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Seed mantras are the seeding suggestions to awaken the deep collective unconscious. — Amit Ray

Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity. — Hamza Yusuf

The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted. — Anais Nin

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self. — D.H. Lawrence

Her outfit must have penetrated his unconscious. She wore a shirt of softly fringed suede that clung to her breasts like an unforgiven sin. — Louise Erdrich

Terrorism is an example of that extreme madness. People blow themselves up just to kill others. Unconscious reaction to terrorism is equal madness. — Eckhart Tolle

The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions. — Italo Calvino

New research suggests that we may hold an unconscious bias against creative ideas much like we do in cases of racism or phobias. — Anonymous

He shook hands with Margaret. He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perfectly unconscious of the fact. — Elizabeth Gaskell

History, that is, the unconscious, common, swarm life of mankind uses every moment of the life of kings as an instrument for its own ends — Leo Tolstoy

Most wonderful things are unconscious. — Agnes Denes

In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious — Carl Jung

How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point. — Corrie Ten Boom

Jealous makes tongue unconscious. — Bharath Mamidoju

As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques. — Charles Lindbergh

Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming. — Carl Jung

The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage. — William Stewart Halsted

She stood there before them, in all the unconscious insolence of beauty, and — Emmuska Orczy

Many people come and go,
knowing not why they ever did so.
A miserable thing can it be -
unconscious of why thy Creator made thee. — James Bergson

Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another. — Sara Sheridan

To create a perfume you have to be the servant of the unconscious. Each idea evolves and transforms, but there should be a surprise with each note. — Serge Lutens

The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions. — E. Stanley Jones

Four young men in motorcycle jackets... set upon the man in khaki shorts and beat him unconscious with his own sandwich board. — Stephen King

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it. — Sam Abell

There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists ... the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool. — William Baziotes

A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs. — Bertrand Russell

The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for. — Philip K. Dick

She was unconscious in a comma."

"You mean a coma."

"Do I? — Neil Gaiman

happened - but I am pretty sure my unconscious mind played a role in it all. Well, to make a long story short, the cat — Leslie Riopel

By keeping your vision in mind - imagining it vividly and regularly - you automatically teach your unconscious mind to lead you to that day. And won't — Kent Sayre

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation. — Neale Donald Walsch

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life. — Otto Weininger

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it. — George Bernard Shaw

is probable that, like the illustrious author of the drama, all were unconscious of any incongruity between their sentiments and actions. — Edith Wharton

We are so unconscious about our actions that we don't even realize the immense suffering we are causing to animals, the planet, and ourselves. — Sharon Gannon

I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives. — Kathryn Harrison

Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism. — William Ralph Inge

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. — W. H. Auden

Most people go about their lives unconscious of their deformities, while in this little world of ours the deformities themselves are a precondition. — Haruki Murakami

On some deep, unconscious level, he had always known it to be true. He was an invention, a fictional character. Jacob Lightfoot didn't exist. — Sharon Sant

The mind is inherently embodied.
Thought is mostly unconscious.
Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical. — George Lakoff

It took me a while to get myself untied. Every time I meet you , I seem to end up hog-tied and unconscious — L.J.Smith

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious. — D.T. Suzuki

The others were a little surprised when Piper came back on a pegasus with two unconscious demigods. — Rick Riordan

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon. — Anthony Burgess

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality. — Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious. — Siri Hustvedt

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities. — G.K. Chesterton

... the neurotic torture of being seductive regularly - by the night: the more that perchance the struggle always is unconscious. — Mary MacLane

The greatest sin is to be unconscious. — Carl Jung

Until you allow the unconscious to become conscious, it will rise up to you as your life and you will call it your fate — C. G. Jung

I suppose it's an unconscious little stream of wit that flows quietly under everything I do or say. — Ray Bradbury

The man lay there silent and unresponsive. An unconscious man, it turned out, was a perfect sounding board for her doubts. — Bryan Costales

Are we unconscious during sleep or merely unable to remember what sleep is like? — Sam Harris

... all I can say is that you could have no better or more trustworthy companion than your own unconscious. ... — Karen Hamaker-Zondag

Don't be an idiot," Terric said. "You were unconscious less than ten minutes ago."
"And you were a dick. One of us got better. — Devon Monk

Unconscious cerebration was doing its work, even with the lunatic. — Bram Stoker

In the case of living machinery, the 'designer' is unconscious natural selection, the blind watchmaker. — Richard Dawkins

Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it. — Damon Galgut

Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance. — Marion LeRoy Burton

The conscious life of the mind is of small importance in comparison with its unconscious life. — Gustave Le Bon

Relax, I'll get it. (said to Kato after Clouseau knocks him unconscious) — Peter Sellers

I'm just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious ... — Bill Hicks

Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity. — Frank Herbert

Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated. — Sophia Loren

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied. — Vernon Howard

One thing only can stand against the power of the unconscious and this, paradoxical as it may sound, is the power of individuality. — M. Esther Harding

Unconscious decisions for action go on constantly inside the head. — Robert E. Ornstein

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

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. — Oliver Sacks

Then the horror overcame me, and I sank down unconscious. CHAPTER — Bram Stoker