Hypnosis Quotes

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

There are no limitations, unless you create them yourselves. Anything is possible. You are only limited by your own imagination.

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.

I should have done it years ago. It's amazing I didn't even want cigarettes anymore.

To be free from false identity and the hypnosis of conditioning is the biggest smile and joy you are going to feel in your life.

Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

An idea accepted as true from any source can be every bit as powerful as hypnosis.

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.

Hypnosis I believe is real. The only problem I guess I have is that, you know, if God or somebody who passed on in my life wanted to talk to me, why wouldn't they come directly to me?

The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.

I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else

It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.

I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.

I've tried body surfing. It's nice.

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.

I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.

Part of being an actor is almost self-hypnosis during those brief moments when the cameras are rolling. You want to actually believe you're Chris Gardner or Muhammad Ali.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

Hypnosis. You know, I'm not a big fan of that bark like a chicken, cluck like a dog stuff.

I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn't understand why the media wouldn't leave me in peace.

I've always tried to stay true to my authentic self.

The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs, or "brainwashing," but rather the systematic manipulation of the most mundane aspects of human nature over time in confining settings.

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

People often ask me if I'm working on a book. That's not how I feel. I feel like I work in a book. It's like putting myself under a spell. And this spell, if you will, is so real to me that if I have to leave my work for a few days, I have to work myself back into the spell when I come back. It's almost like hypnosis.

Although we think that we think, most of the time we are being thought by the collective mind, the hypnosis of conditioning.

It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the hypnosis of social conditioning.

In '48 when I left Metro, I tried to go back to radio, but somehow just didn't do well at it.

House Democrats have tried to increase port security funding on this House floor four times over the last 4 years, and House Republicans have defeated our efforts every single time.

When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinking about the fact that I'm thinking about it. I just want to be in it. It's one element of hypnosis.

You can not make someone love you. You can not be thin enough or white enough or famous enough. The choice is entirely the other person's. Then again, you might try hypnosis.

I believe the biggest advancement in DJ culture is that DJs are being vocal and are a voice to raise the consciousness of the masses towards making our planet awaken from the hypnosis of the matrix.

[This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain; I've done a feature film with all the actors acting under hypnosis - things that are very unusual.

The collective dream is the hypnosis of social conditioning. Only sages, psychotics & geniuses manage to break free.

I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.