Automatic Process Quotes

It just comes out of my subconscious. If you asked me to draw you a doodle, I couldn't do it.

It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.

Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.

The original Jethro Tull was a 19th century English agriculturist who invented a seed drill you see. The first automatic process where by small holes were made in Mother Earth and even smaller seeds were deposited one at a time and neatly covered over as a cat does after having being naughty.

Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.

Creativity runs on automatic, no matter what's happening in other parts of my life. I can't help myself. It's been in me, and it evolves in me over the years. It's a condition in me.

You cannot force meditation, you can only create the situation. And if the situation is created rightly, then meditation happens automatically.

It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button.

Just because it's automatic doesn't mean it works.

Working with the Kinks, there always seemed to be some kind of automatic process at work. Ray and I had this telepathy happening for a long time, where one of us always knew what the other could do with something.

Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.

The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.

The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.

Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism.

My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts.

Art historical reference is like learning to drive a car - you always know how to drive even though you're not analysing how.

I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be.