Its the difference between instinct and intuition.
Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it.
People never think about words, they only feel them.
When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there's not a hole you're going to fall into, but mostly you're not even aware of what you're thinking.
There are universal shapes to which everybody is subconsciously conditioned and to which they can respond if their conscious control does not shut them off.
When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.
I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.
Most people don't realize that they feel something is wrong before they think something is wrong.
I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
There is a knowingness that is as much a part of us as flesh and blood and bones. It's intuition, the deepest natural knowing. ... Intuition is the voice within forever pressing us to stretch ourselves, to take risks, to keep loving and giving birth to a new self, regardless of circumstances.
Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
I think subconsciously people are remarkably discerning. I think that they can sense care.
Awareness, even at a subconscious level, beats fancy checklists without it, track or you will fail.
One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain's processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy.
It's a twin type of telepathy. My sister and I, we share the same DNA, so on paper, we're the same person. I knew she was pregnant, like, right away - it's so crazy - but I asked her, and she said yes.
Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.
These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level.
Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.
The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process.
You can see the future best through peripheral vision.
I think, psychics, there are some people that really are psychic, and it doesn't make sense, but why should it make sense?
Intuition tells me how to live my day, intuition tells me when to walk away.
What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing, even though you have never formulated it.
The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the first glance to know what the picture is about. You don't so much see the image as let it dissolve into your consciousness, like a tablet in a glass of water.
The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
