Keith Barry Quotes

Clearly if a hypnotist could make someone to steal £100k just by telling them to, the world would be a different place, and I suspect that hypnotists wouldn't bother doing shows in pubs or dodgy Spanish holiday resorts.

I can hypnotize rabbits.

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me.

I believe everyone has the ability to be hypnotised, and I think, on different days, different people will have varying levels of susceptibility.

I am constantly asked can anyone be hypnotized, and does it really work? Yes, and it does.

I first read about hypnotism at school, and I used to do tricks like getting a really skinny guy to arm wrestle the local bully.

Hypnosis is just suggestibility; you see it in certain people.

The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage - curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called 'the future.'

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

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.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

Actually, actually, when he first put us into hypnosis, he didn't know what he was going to get.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.

Hypnosis is about shutting down the conscious mind and re-igniting the unconscious and the imagination, so while I give instructions to them under hypnosis, the contestants might interpret those instructions in all kinds of ways.

Once you've hypnotised someone once, you can pretty much put them under instantly any time you meet them afterwards.

I'm not a mad genius.