Top 100 Quotes About Subconscious
#1. if you only let your thoughts go, they can come up with all sorts of things, conjuring up images of anyone at all, making caricatures of even the people that you know and love most.
The self-preservation instinct. Let your subconscious make parodies of your loss and anxiety and jealousy.
Mons Kallentoft
#2. If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that's when your positive thoughts work.
Bruce Lipton
#3. The mind is time bound however; the subconscious mind is universal consciousness and is timeless.
Debasish Mridha
#4. Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.
Meg Rosoff
#6. The real man lies in the depths of subconscious.
H.L. Mencken
#7. Give your subconscious a chance to work by turning your brain off from time to time. Don't focus on work or solving problems constantly.
Harvey MacKay
#8. I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.
Maggie Stiefvater
#9. When I read a script or I see a character, I don't necessarily see the arc of her, that by the end she is this person, she's different from she was in the beginning. I guess it's more a subconscious understanding of that arc.
Shailene Woodley
#10. The music and the philosophy feed off of one another on a subconscious level, though I've never really integrated my academic teaching into songwriting. But what they have in common is that they're both ways to tap into the mysterious parts of our world.
Steve Weinstein
#11. The houses [my first project in London] were reactions to the condition of the city and my frustrations with the norms that were being played out. In a way they were slightly subconscious but reactions to that condition and a way to posit new possibilities within certain pervasive norms.
David Adjaye
#12. Being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.
Jasper Fforde
#13. Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change.
Mitch Kapor
#14. No. The dream was just my subconscious mind's way of drawing attention to something I'd seen without perceiving its significance.
Jonathan L. Howard
#15. Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#16. Sports Jerseys: To wear another man's name on your back is a subconscious slap in the face to who you are. Don't fantasize about being someone else. Put in the work required to rise to the level of your greatest self.
Steve Maraboli
#17. The score is in your subconscious. Sit down long enough at a keyboard and it will come out.
Jonathan Heatt
#19. Meditation is a great tool which can be used to create harmony between the inner subconscious world and the outer chaotic world.
Debasish Mridha
#20. When a man denies the power of women, he is denying his own subconscious.
Amrita Pritam
#21. I've come to realize that I perform best when I'm letting my subconscious mind hit the ball and my conscious mind is otherwise occupied.
Al Geiberger
#22. He felt imprisoned in an airplane. In an airplane there was absolutely no place in the world to go except to another part of the airplane. Doc Daneeka had been told that people who enjoyed climbing into an airplane were really giving vent to a subconscious desire to climb back into the womb.
Joseph Heller
#23. For an actor, style comes last. You first have to implement the whole thing, but your style comes from the subconscious, which is the best part an actor brings to his work.
Jack Nicholson
#24. So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities are put there unconsciously, and little of importance by the conscious intellect. But these are things for the psychologist to untangle.
Edward Hopper
#25. When the subconscious mind must chose between deeply rooted emotions and logic, emotions will almost always win.
T. Harv Eker
#26. When you write a goal down your subconscious brain begins to more actively think about bringing into your life the people, resources and knowledge you need to achieve your goals.
Ryan Allis
#27. The Subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what's real and what's imagined.
Bob Proctor
#28. When I'm writing, I'm trying to access my subconscious and turn off my conscious brain. I use my conscious for research, but when I'm actually writing, I'm trying to get into a place where I'm tapping into the deeper, darker elements of what's going on.
Dan Gilroy
#29. The ten-minute period before you sleep and the ten-minute period after you wake up are profoundly influential on your subconscious mind. Only the most inspiring and serene thoughts should be programmed into your mind at those times.
Robin S. Sharma
#30. Your subconscious protects you. It's all about listening to it.
Nitin Sawhney
#31. When you imagine the reality of the fulfilled desire and feel the thrill of accomplishment, your subconscious brings about the realisation of desire.
Joseph Murphy
#32. There is something terrible in the moments after waking up, when the subconscious
knows that something terrible has happened but before all the memories flash back in
their entirety
Nicholas Sparks
#33. Imagination is a roller coaster ride in search of ideas and beauty into the wonderland of subconscious and conscious mind.
Debasish Mridha
#34. Remember, healing through forgiveness takes place in the soul and subconscious, not by a face to face confrontation that ends in hugging and tears of joy. In fact, chances are that would never happen anyway, so you are setting yourself up for failure if that is your expectation.
Sharon Critchfield
#35. Sometimes you know you have something, but your subconscious doesn't realize it. That is when you just need to get used to life's little unexpected occurances.
Svetlana Sonday
#36. Appealing to our subconscious emotions rather than our conscious intellects, advertisements are designed to exploit the discontentments fostered by the American dream, the constant desire for social success and the material rewards that accompany it.
Sonia Maasik
#37. Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.
Masiela Lusha
#38. My impression is that life - a big word, I know - inflicts themes on a writer through certain experiences that impress themselves on his consciousness or subconscious and later compel him to shake himself free by turning them into stories.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#39. Ultimately, for me, I had an underlying belief or fear that I'm not enough as I am. Sometimes I discover those kinds of thoughts still lurking in my subconscious, and the best thing I can do is show up anyway.
Karla Cheatham Mosley
#40. Once the subconscious mind accepts an idea, it begins to execute it.
Joseph Murphy
#41. On a subconscious level we're aware that time isn't enduring, that it is not a required condition of our existence, that there comes a point when we will have no need of it.
Dean Koontz
#42. We affirm the harmony that we seek in order to provide the subconscious with a blue print of the work to be done.
Emmet Fox
#43. I believe the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditioned, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up. So
Robyn Davidson
#45. It is a map of our attitude toward life, a labyrinthine pathway to long-forgotten hiding places inside, a diagram of our subconscious mind.
Vimala Rodgers
#46. My interest in writing about American history stemmed originally, I think, from a subconscious desire to find roots - I felt like a girl without a country. I have put down roots quite firmly by now, but in the process, I have discovered the joys of research and am probably hooked.
Jean Fritz
#47. Develop a vision, not a goal. Visions are much more powerful. 98% of what's going on in your brain is subconscious. Developing a vision requires the use of more of your brain than just developing a thought, which suggests we are tapping into subconscious brain power.
Josh Bezoni
#48. The bed in which we spend a third of our lives functions as a kind of protective haven for the true self, the subconscious refuge from the assault of the external world. The bed becomes the restorative womb, where the imagination is nurtured while our resting bodies are safe.
Keith Donohue
#49. It is only when an actor feels that his inner and outer life on the stage is flowing naturally and normally, in the circumstances that surround him, that the deeper sources of his subconscious gently open, and from them come feelings we cannot always analyse.
Constantin Stanislavski
#50. The infinite intelligence of my subconscious mind reveals to me my true place in life.
Joseph Murphy
#51. The more we become civilized, the more we simultaneously understand our need to be virtuous, and our need to understand our experiences on a subconscious level.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#52. If you prepare your subconscious for highly stressful situations, you can create harmony with your fears. You can tame fear like a wild animal and use it to your advantage.
Georges St-Pierre
#53. Imagination is tapping into the subconscious in a form of open play. That is why art or music therapy, which encourages a person to take up brushes and paint or an instrument, and just express themselves, is so powerful.
Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney
#54. Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality.
Colin Wilson
#55. One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting truths lie.
Francine Du Plessix Gray
#57. Every evening, write down the six most important things that you must do the next day. Then while you sleep your subconscious will work on the best ways for you to accomplish them. Your next day will go much more smoothly.
Tom Hopkins
#58. Practice is the process of moving conscious action into subconscious and unconscious action.
Ted Agon
#59. I don't know why I paint what I paint. I think it comes out - it's kind of my subconscious or something.
Margaret Keane
#60. But before she'd start reading, she'd pass the book around to the students. Each child had to inhale the pages, thereby infusing the scent and memory as one into their subconscious.
Carmen DeSousa
#61. Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.
Charles De Lint
#62. In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.
Jeanette Winterson
#63. Drop the whole subject and put it out of your mind and let your subconscious do its thing.
James Webb Young
#64. We have to understand there are two parts of our mind, there's the conscious and the subconscious. It's the subconscious that controls our behavior. It's the conscious mind where the intellect is resident. So the conscious mind is understanding information, but it's not internalizing it.
Bob Proctor
#65. It all comes down to this: if your subconscious "financial blueprint" is not "set" for success, nothing you learn, nothing you know, and nothing you do will make much of a difference.
T. Harv Eker
#66. The most important copy you will ever write is that which you create and print each day on your own subconscious.
Ted Nicholas
#67. Meditation, especially for people who don't know very much about it and think it's this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and the dust comes flying out.
Amanda Palmer
#68. He [liberal white person] may stand with you through thin, but not thick; when the chips are down, you'll find that as fixed in him as his bone structure is his sometimes subconscious conviction that he's better than anybody black.
Malcolm X
#69. Plus, dreams don't have to be logical, do they? Dreams are poems from the subconscious.
Stephen King
#70. Sometimes the ancestors deem certain information so important that they send it to the subconscious mind without being consciously asked.
Luisah Teish
#71. Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.
Ellen Goodman
#72. If you relax too much, the subconscious plays the role; the conscious does something else, rather than the other way around, which is the way it's supposed to be.
Maria Karnilova
#73. When a desire is deep, it reaches the subconscious mind and calls for cultivation of qualities that will help fulfill desires, and this is what transforms an ordinary person into a great leader.
Awdhesh Singh
#74. Find a balance between one's responsibility as a white person to confront acts of racism and one's subconscious sense of power and privilege over people of color when reacting to the [racist] event.
Eileen O'Brien
#75. My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work.
Sinead O'Connor
#76. There is a calculus, it turns out, for mastering our subconscious urges. For companies like Target, the exhaustive rendering of our conscious and unconscious patterns into data sets and algorithms has revolutionized what they know about us and, therefore, how precisely they can sell.
Charles Duhigg
#77. My skin is broken out from subconscious anxiety and tension, self-induced. Nothing is more difficult than lashing a vagrant mind suddenly into long self-imposed stints of concentration.
Sylvia Plath
#78. The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious.
Charles James
#79. When I start on a book, I have been thinking about it and making occasional notes for some time ... So I have lots of theme, locale, subjects and technical ideas ... I don't worry about long periods of not doing anything. I know my subconscious is busy.
Arthur C. Clarke
#80. My subconscious eyes me warily over her tortoiseshell half-moon specs.
E.L. James
#81. We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.
Sigmund Freud
#82. AUTOSUGGESTION is the agency of control through which an individual may voluntarily feed his subconscious mind on thoughts of a creative nature, or, by neglect, permit thoughts of a destructive nature to find their way into this rich garden of the mind.
Napoleon Hill
#83. I'm sorry," I muttered. "My subconscious is apparently obsessed with you.
Shelly Crane
#84. I don't know how old my phone is, but it was only $10. It is a nice subconscious way of not having the Internet at your fingertips ... e-mail, Twitter or Facebook.
Andrew Luck
#85. It was like being drawn slowly from the serene darkness, the way one wakes up when they've been having a lovely dream and their subconscious is struggling to hold them there, just a little while longer.
Marissa Meyer
#86. I'd lost myself somewhere along the way, and maybe my subconscious was telling me it was time I found that person again, because I sure as hell wasn't happy with who I'd become.
A.L. Jackson
#87. Most important ... develop your technical ability. You are handicapped if you do not develop well enough to hold the subconscious process so as not to have problems of inexperienced painters ...
Sergei Bongart
#88. Your immune systems are comprised of all parts of the eco-system you know as yourself, and include not only every part of you, from your conscious and subconscious thoughts to your physical body systems, but also how you live and function in relationship with the larger ecosystems that surround you.
Robin Rose Bennett
#90. Prayers are answered when the individual's subconscious mind responds to the mental picture or thought in his or her mind. This
Joseph Murphy
#91. Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious ... they are the dictator inside ourselves.
Denis Villeneuve
#93. Within your dreams, your subconscious reveals the secrets to alter your reality; It's up to you in your reality to stay faithful and ensure your dreams come true.
Jes Furhmann
#94. My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.
J.R. Moehringer
#95. The subconscious is ahead of the conscious, and we never know what really drives us.
Robert H. Schuller
#96. Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.
Brian Tracy
#97. Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
Christy Turlington
#98. The thing is this: When I play, what I try to do is to reach my subconscious level. I don't want to overtly think about anything, because you can't think and play at the same time - believe me, I've tried it (laughs).
Sonny Rollins
#99. I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
Andrew Wyeth
#100. Something must be going on deep in his subconscious, he thought, some kind of redecoration, refurbishment, reupholstering that required a lot of downtime - some shadowy application running in the background, performing unknown operations, consuming huge chunks of psychic ram.
Lev Grossman