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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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