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Quotes About Subconscious

we tend to think of our behavior as largely conscious and willed. To imagine that we are not always in control of what we do is a frightening thought, but in fact it is the reality. We are subject to forces from deep within us that drive our behavior and that operate below the level of our awareness.
~ Robert Greene
We are subject to forces from deep within us that drive our behavior and that operate below the level of our awareness.
~ Robert Greene
We see the results—our thoughts, moods, and actions—but have little conscious access to what actually moves our emotions and compels us to behave in certain ways.
~ Robert Greene
Coastal people never really know what the ocean symbolizes to landlocked inland people—what a great distant dream it is, present but unseen in the deepest levels of subconsciousness, and when they arrive at the ocean and the conscious images are compared with the subconscious dream there is a sense of defeat at having come so far to be so stopped by the mystery that can never be fathomed. The source of it all.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
preintellectual awareness. The subliminal self, Poincaré said, looks at a large number of solutions to a problem, but only the interesting ones break into the domain of consciousness.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
No puedes declararme culpable de pecados cometidos en sueños.
~ Robert Silverberg
Left-hemisphere moment: When assets generate enough income to cover luxuries, that's when you can buy them. Right-hemisphere moment: Think creatively about what your business is. It's not your profession. Subconscious moment: Acquire the type of assets you love, because you will take better care of them and enjoy learning about them.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
That part of us that we trap in our dreams and deny in daylight hours.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Your unconscious mind takes the things you can't handle and plays with them while you sleep until some of the sharp corners are worn off.
~ Lawrence Block
First you have to know and understand intellectually what you want to do - then you have to sleepwalk a little to reach it.
~ Lawrence Durrell
The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer.
~ Carl Sandburg
Subconsciously, we all want to be nebula... In the end, we're all connected. We're all going to become one cloud of light whether you like it or not. We're all made of the same star dust.
~ Jason Daniel Chaplin
I felt her come by later, as I was dozing off. Her standing, by my bed. The depth of shadow of a person felt behind closed eyelids.
~ Aimee Bender
The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.
~ Alain de Botton
Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.
~ Alain de Botton
I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim, subconscious underworld. A radiant abyss where men meet themselves. Hell, Netley. We're in Hell.
~ Alan Moore
My techniques are concerned with reading signals from people, tiny unconscious clues that betray their thoughts. I tend to see it like a game...
~ Derren Victor Brown
What makes us dream of some things and not others? Why might we pick up on a trivial event from the day and not something more important? Would it be possible to have someone dream of specific subjects by subtly suggesting those ideas?
~ Derren Victor Brown
I don't believe that we have any choice about our dreams. I believe they simply come to us, like head colds and bad habits.
~ Diane Hammond
The seed-sentence then, which we cast into the subconscious mind of the reader, is this: "Kether is the Malkuth of the Unmanifest.
~ Dion Fortune
Why is it that whenever I hear music I think I'm a bride?
~ Djuna Barnes
now I see that night does something to a person's identity, even when asleep.
~ Djuna Barnes
I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious...
~ Dodie Smith
I no longer predicted a future with any of them, and it could have been, in fact, that I subconsciously chose women who were so fucked up, disaster was virtually assured, providing fodder for the stories I was now writing about Asian guys who dated fucked-up white girls.
~ Don Lee