Leonard Mlodinow Quotes

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind

The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

Sometimes it's hard to tell where your instincts start and your baggage stops.

Have you ever wondered what your subconscious mind looks like? Well today, I can show you.

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

Every aspect of our lives plays out in two versions: one conscious, which we are constantly aware of, and the other unconscious, which remains hidden from us.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

Dreams have as much influence as actions.

I think a lot of creative people are uncomfortable with therapy. Because you're basically trying to 'solve' the unconscious. And the unconscious is where it all comes from.

My influences happen at more of a subconscious level, I don't dig too deep into that or analyze it myself.

I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it.

Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions.

The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain.

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.

I think therapy can be very revealing and useful for actors. You start to dig deep and understand certain mechanisms that you hadn't been aware of before and, you know, meanings behind things.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.

It feels like your subconscious can be way ahead of you, as a songwriter. You can write a song that you think is about one thing and months later you're playing it and thinking, hang on, this is completely informing where I am now.

My job gives me the permission to ask really great questions, like, 'Are you sure you're not pissed at him?' or, 'Is the eating really about food, or does it have something to do with your mother?' or, 'How is your sex life? I mean, I know we're here talking about your job, but I can tell this has to do with your sex life.'

I'm always interested in a character who does something and doesn't understand why they've done it.

I don't see myself as having a dark side.

The whole idea of a dream, to me, is a mystery plane. Things are operating there that tell us the real truth. The stuff going on inside us that we don't express or even know about pours out in our dreams.