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Quotes About Automatism

Workouts are like brushing my teeth; I don't think about them, I just do them. The decision has already been made.
~ PattiSue Plumer
They say that, if we manage to live without too great an effort, it is entirely owing to the automatism which makes us unconscious of a great part of our movements. In order to take one single step, it seems, we displace an infinite number of muscles, and yet, thanks to this automatism, we are unaware of it. The same thing happens in our relations with other people.
~ Alberto Moravia
have the syndrome, Mrs. MacNeil. For example, the untidiness; the pugnacity; behavior that's socially embarrassing; the automatism; and of course, the seizures that made the bed shake. Usually, that's followed by either wetting the bed or vomiting, or both,
~ William Peter Blatty
Engrave this Quote Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner -- the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.
~ Andre Breton
Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express ? verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner ? the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.
~ Andre Breton
Criza limbajului Ruptura între fiin?? È™i gandire.Gandirea,golit? de fiin??,se usuc?,se vestejeÈ™te,nu mai e gandire.Într-adev?r,gandirea e expresia fiinÈ›ei,coincide cu fiinÈ›a.PoÈ›i vorbi f?r? s? gandeÈ™ti.Pentru asta avem la dispoziÈ›ie cliÈ™eele,adic? automatismele.Gandirea adev?rat? nu poate fi decat vie.
~ Eugene Ionesco
All of this follows from a time in history when procedures have taken command over rituals. A moment that is elusive, hard to establish, since the two powers also have features in common. First of all, they are both formalized actions. But they aim in opposite directions. Ritual aims toward perfect awareness, which for Catholics is the moment of transubstantiation. Procedures, on the other hand, point toward total automatism. The more procedures multiply, the more the realm of automata expands.
~ Roberto Calasso
We haven't met for many years, said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be. Five years next November. The automatic quality set us all back at least another minute.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ho una ostinata fiducia nella suggestione immediata, automatismo o spontaneismo come chiamar la si voglia, e diffido dei razionalismi e delle modificazioni ulteriori. Considero la poesia, innanzitutto, come un mezzo di scoperta, di conoscenza delle tendenze latenti, mie e della realtà che mi attornia.
~ Artur Lundkvist
We dismiss the skeptic, we speak of an "automatism of doubt," while we never say of a believer that he has fallen into an "automatism of faith." Yet faith is much more mechanical than doubt, which has the excuse of proceeding from surprise to surprise — inside perplexity, it is true.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Between the amateur and the professional...there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization...A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.
~ Bernard De Voto
Although it may happen that people who always repeat the same thing actually believe what they say, inevitably their speech will be perceived as insincere - presumably even by themselves, if they ever care to listen to themselves speak. In our culture, sincerity does not stand in opposition to lying, but in opposition to automatism and routine.
~ Boris Groys
The real importance of automatism lay in the fact that it led to a different relation between the artist and the creative act. Where the artist had traditionally been seen as someone who invents a personal world, bringing into being something unique to his own 'genius', the surrealists conceived themselves as explorers and researchers rather than 'artist' in the traditional sense and it was discovery rather than invention that became crucial for them.
~ Michael Richardson
In my opinion, what will be troublesome for you in all this is chiefly that in childhood there was implanted in you—and has now become perfectly harmonized with your general psyche—an excellently working automatism for perceiving all kinds of new impressions, thanks to which "blessing" you have now, during your responsible life, no need to make any individual effort whatsoever.
~ G.I. Gurdjieff
Un om tr?ieÅŸte autentic... Un credincios nu are mai mult de dou?, trei experienÅ£e religioase în toat? viaÅ£a lui, ad?ugase. Restul e rutin?. Ca ÅŸi viaÅ£a noastr?: o serie nesfârÅŸit? de automatisme. Doar câteva ceasuri autentice la zece, cincisprezece ani. Åži când vrei s? ieÅŸi din rutin?, faci istorie...
~ Mircea Eliade
Things that people are doing constantly but aren't thinking about. That's the ultimate 'Portlandia' concept.
~ Jonathan Krisel
She had spent the night planning and now that it was time, she hardly thought at all. It was as if she were standing outside herself, watching someone else do these things.
~ Celeste Ng
The more details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.
~ William James
O rígido, o já feito, o mecânico, contrariamente ao maleável, ao continuadamente cambiante, ao vivo, o desvio contrariamente à atenção, enfim, o automatismo contrastando com a atividade livre, eis em suma o que o riso ressalta e pretende corrigir.
~ Henri Bergson
Solo empezamos a ser imitables ahí donde dejamos de ser nosotros mismos. Quiero decir que solo de puede imitar de nuestros gestos aquello que tienen de mecánicamente uniforme y, por eso mismo, de extraño a nuestra viva personalidad. Imitar a alguien es extraer la parte de automatismo que este ha dejado introducirse en su persona.
~ Henri Bergson
Performance. Divestiture of humans and their freedom. Disqualification of humans in favor of automatism, a massive transfer of decision-making to computerized devices. A symbolic capitulation, a defeat of the will much more serious than any physical impairment. Sacrifizio dell'intelletto, della volunta, dell'immaginazione.
~ Jean Baudrillard
It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to the automatism of technological civilization and the industrial consumer society, for they, too, are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in the post-totalitarian societies.
~ Vaclav Havel
The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun'Nun, by aiming for 'being as you were, where you were, before you were'.
~ Idries Shah
It sometimes seems to me that a pestilence has struck the human race in its most distinctive faculty - that is, the use of words. It is a plague afflicting language, revealing itself as a loss of cognition and immediacy, an automatism that tends to level out all expression into the most generic, anonymous, and abstract formulas, to dilute meaning, to blunt the edge of expressiveness, extinguishing the sparks that shoots out from the collision of words and new circumstances.
~ Italo Calvino