Unconscious Choices Quotes

Our most important decisions are made while we are thinking about something else.

What is it about women that they just go right for the guy that totally repulses them?

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.

We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax.

You and I are infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices. Some of these choices are made consciously, while others are made unconsciously. But the best way to understand and maximize the use of karmic law is to become consciously aware of the choices we make every moment.

Don't make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you're not even conscious you're making.

I never make conscious decisions.

I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

At times when I am myself sitting at a retreat, and at the end I get into my car to drive away, I watch my hand move forward to turn on the radio. When I can be mindful, I notice the fact that I actually don't want in that moment to listen to the news or hear some music.

I'm attracted to things that make a point or have a certain point of view, but it's not a conscious thing that I decide to do every morning. Unconsciously, what I like has a social commentary in it, or it's about race, or it's risky to do. That's what I like doing.

Most of us make unconscious choices in the words that we use; we sleep-walk through the maze of possibilities available to us.

I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.

When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

The people and places that cause terror in childhood cause attraction in adulthood. We end up being repetitively attracted to the same kind of person that obliges us by acting out the same behavior over again.

So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.

If you feel that your father was lacking as a husband, it affects your own choice of man.

I do think people do pick movies that reveal something about them that they aren't always aware of. If you ask them what kind of an actor they think they are, they'll probably tell you something different than what they've actually done.

What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.

Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.

How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?

All behavior involves conscious or unconscious selection of particular actions out of all those which are physically possible to the actor and to those persons over whom he exercises influence and authority.