Subconscious Actions Quotes

And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

One study says that 90 percent of our everyday behavior is based on our habits. . . That means how we treat people, how we spend our money, what we watch, what we listen to - 90 percent of the time, we're on autopilot. We do what we've always done.

All of us have a lot of physical tics that we don't realize that we're doing subconsciously.

Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives.

Habits are powerful, but delicate. They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed. They often occur without our permission, but can be reshaped by fiddling with their parts. They shape our lives far more than we realize—they are so strong, in fact, that they cause our brains to cling to them at the exclusion of all else, including common sense.

Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual.

We are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them; our bodies take charge and do them for us.

Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.

My work is about the behaviors that we all engage in unconsciously on a collective level. And what I mean by that, it's the behaviors that we're in denial about and the ones that operate below the surface of our daily awareness. And as individuals, we all do these things, all the time, every day.

Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.

As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.

As an actor, I have these tics that I don't even know exist.

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

Human beings are mercifully so constituted as to be able to conceal from themselves what they intend to do until they are well into the doing of it.