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Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He that can see a louse as far away as China is unconscious of an elephant on his nose.

Malaysian Proverb

The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.

Italo Calvino

Unconscious. Mary Pat wanted to win this game so bad, it was written all over her face. Every inning, every pitch, she was humming the ball in there and hitting her spots. She was in command, but she was psyched up to play and she showed such emotion. You could tell, every batter, she was fired up. It was awesome.

Laurie Markatos

Understand that all battles are waged on an unconscious level before they are begun on the conscious one, and this battle is no different. The power structure wishes us to believe that the only options available are those which they present to us, we know this is simply not true, and therefore we must redefine the terrain of this conflict, and clearly, it is a conflict of worldviews and agendas.

Teresa Stover

As for the source of the music, I believe it comes from the unconscious; that there is no such thing as talent.

John Fahey

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

Man Ray

Clyde was just unconscious tonight.

Jimmy Allen

To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.

Dr. Willard Gaylin

At first, it seemed nothing, but it became as if you are being hit by a hammer. Three hours later, I became unconscious.

Tin Oo

Epics typically appeal to the collective unconscious. They are brands, deeply entrenched in the mind and such is their recall that the first week's turnout is nearly assured.

Rajeev Sharma

Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cannot be overrated. Politicians are frightened of the press, and in the same way as bull-fighting has a brutalizing effect upon Spain (of which she is unconscious), headlines of murder, rape, and rubbish, excite and demoralize the American public.

Margot Asquith

Because there is no doubt that he cannot and will not suffer pain if unconscious, the remedy crafted by the district court, though hardly necessary as a constitutional matter, provides Morales with precisely the form of assurance he demanded.

Dane Gillette

The idea is that your body, on this very deep, unconscious level, is controlling a virtual person. It's a much more complex, ambiguous type of interactivity, but it's very real interactivity.

Lynn Hughes

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

Louis Kronenberger

I think wholeness comes from living your life consciously during the day and then exploring your inner life or unconscious at night.

Margery Cuyler

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Hebbel

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

David Grayson

The take-home message is that when you have to make a decision, the first step should be to get all the information necessary for the decision. Once you have the information, you have to decide, and this is best done with conscious thought for simple decisions, but left to unconscious thought -- to 'sleep on it' -- when the decision is complex.

Ap Dijksterhuis

He felt a lack of security. No place existed in all the world that could be called safe, and he knew for the first time in his life that there had never been any such thing as safety, and never would be, the difference being that now he knew it as a fact, whereas before it was a natural unconscious state.

Alan Sillitoe

I wish that were the case. It's not true. But I think on some unconscious level, maybe we know more than we think we know.

Howard Gordon

The images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought.

Peter Fraser

There are times where you have an unconscious (person), and we don't know if it's stroke-related, if it's cardiac-related or if it's any medical condition, ... It's hard to figure out what the prognosis is.

Michael Quinn

No one has told me that this is a widespread phenomenon. They all get the big picture that it's hard to save yourself when you're unconscious. Hard stuff.

John Balas

I can't tell you anything about what happens after the cameras go off, mostly because I'm usually unconscious by then.

Richard Dean Anderson

Most new things are not good and die an early death; but those, which push themselves forward, and by slow degree force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom and must have honest consideration, and mus.

Thomas Brackett Reed

We tied it early in the third, then they hit two 3-pointers in a row. Mock was just unconscious tonight. He's a great shooter.

John Daniel

When you figure it out, most of their points in the first half came from us, with the turnovers and the (free throws). They were unconscious with their (free throws), ... I think we capitalized on their mistakes more in the second half, and we played with more composure.

Tim Conley

Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.

Nathaniel Branden

She came in and played completely unconscious. She always knows where she's at on the offensive end and tonight she did the same on defense.

Amy Hunsaker

I've been in all kinds of tough ones. I've fallen 20 feet into a crevasse, been knocked unconscious, stuff you can't avoid. I do all the little things.

Bill Yeo

In those cases, the victims were shot. They died without being tortured. Terri, she was kidnapped and strangled and beat on the head. She was dragged across the road. While she was unconscious, she was raped and probably beat some more. He then went back and stabbed her four times. It's one of the most brutal crimes, and the jury found she suffered extreme torture.

Chuck Schultz

It's unconscious. You just do it.

Kathleen Lundin

I tried to flip him on the bed, but he missed the bed and hit the floor. I was in shock. I ran out of the house. I think he was unconscious.

Sherry Murphy

Most passengers were asleep when the accident took place. I was also asleep on my seat. Suddenly I heard a loud thud and I fell down from my seat. I was unconscious and later, when I regained consciousness, I was in the hospital bed.

Ram Kumar

One man did escape without injuries. He described it as very sudden, that he was unconscious briefly, but he was able to escape. All of his colleagues are in hospital.

Sarah Galashan

I completely see the similarities, I'm not denying that those are there, but I can honestly say that any of those similarities were completely unconscious and unintentional.

Kaavya Viswanathan

It was the worst fall I've ever seen. He was never unconscious. He was in shock. He didn't even know he broke his wrist, he had so much pain in his mouth.

Mark Macgowan

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation grant recognizes our commitment, while at the same time it illustrates the commitment of the Kellogg Foundation, to challenging prejudice -- whether conscious or unconscious. Our goal at the Journalism School is to set a new, higher standard for education regarding the coverage of race and ethnicity. We endeavor to be leaders in the field.

Nicholas Lemann

The allegations were that he would use some sort of either nitrous oxide or gas and the victim was made so that she … was unaware or unconscious … and then … he would sexually assault her while she was in the chair there.

Mark Clark

Traditional therapy focuses on the individual, looking at our unconscious motivation, etc.. Then there are family-systems theories that focus on the family as a unit, a single organism. 'Codes of Love' integrates both. It's a firm review of the literature and a new blending of very important skills.

Mark Bryan

I am a huge fan of her work and can honestly say that any phrasing similarities between her works and mine were completely unintentional and unconscious.

Kaavya Viswanathan

He had an unbelievable spring, no question. He was a spring-time All-American. he was unconscious this spring.

John Palermo

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Francis Jeffrey

The initial dose will make them unconscious, and the continuous infusion will keep them that way during the relatively short time the execution will take.

Dane Gillette

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

Charles Munch

Looked like the lady that was helping them was a, maybe a nurse or something 'cause she kind of knew what's going on. So she said that she was in shock, and unconscious due to the shock, and it's best that we leave her alone.

Andy Akamine

Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This data base is the source of you hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are.

Michael J. Gelb

If you are in alone on a street in Paris, France, and you become unconscious, as long as someone calls the number on the bracelet, we can tell them who you are.

Chief Donald Poirot

There is a small subset of people whose pain can't be managed in terms that are acceptable to them. Some pain can only be controlled by being unconscious, and that's not what everyone wants at the end.

Leslie Francis

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Frank Herbert

And so they had to live with all that uncertainty. I was basically unconscious for 12 days of it, and then I was going in and out of delirium for another five weeks. ... I didn't have to live through the worst, and they did.

Trisha Meili

I don't know if she was unconscious. She does have some short-term memory loss right now. She doesn't remember the crash, which is probably a good thing. She's got a bit of a concussion but she's going to be all right.

Fred Zimny

It's a cultural phenomenon. So, saying it's a cartoon doesn't dismiss it, doesn't denigrate it, it even makes it more powerful. Because why? Now it's getting into the unconscious or the subconscious and the minds of our children.

Michael Dyson

People are still coming to hospitals with unconscious children in their arms. Some of them are coming to us very late.

Kp Kushwaha

These studies don't pick up on implicit, unconscious bias.

Kelly Brownell

Shaken-soldier syndrome is a traumatic brain injury that shows in veterans who have survived roadside blasts. In patients who are unconscious but with no penetrating head wounds, it would be extremely helpful for emergency medical technicians to test for a marker to see how severe the injuries are. Then perhaps something can be done early on.

Douglas Anderson

He's very chirpy, he never even mentioned the championship. I think he's just relieved he's still talking to us because it was a hell of a fall, he got a real bash in the face. He could have been left unconscious - it could have been a lot worse.

Richard Hale

That was her show there for awhile. I was thinking about giving her a break. She was so hot I couldn't take her out. She was unconscious for awhile.

Gerry Eckenrode

I've never seen a truly great fighter get knocked onto the ropes unconscious ... knocked out cold before ... and I saw Roy Jones get knocked out twice in a row.

Jim Lampley

The way it tore the walls and roof out of the trailer, I'm sure it sucked me up into the wind. I'm really glad I was unconscious.

Matt Suter

You see on the tape that they (the defendants) are celebrating. They are mugging for the camera and making crude comments. They're dancing around. They know that she's unresponsive, they know that she's unconscious. They're deciding what to do next. They're competing with each other to see who can do the worst things to her.

Dan Hess

When I wok up in intensive care after almost three weeks unconscious, I only realized how serious my injuries were when I saw my hands and feet were black. Then I put two and two together. . . . I'm definitely going to lose bits of my fingers and toes. And they say I could be in here for another six months.

Ryan Wilson

This case raises questions about doctors' 'rush to judgment' in declaring people with brain injury permanently unconscious and about the state's ? through the courts and its agencies ? eagerness to withhold treatment and end their lives.

Stephen Drake

For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which the Greeks used to call gods.

Miguel Serrano

We're going to try to finish out (the first district cycle) with a victory against Hallsville. I expect them to play lights out, because when we play them they become unconscious, more times than not. There's nothing we can do about it.

Rick Dowdle

Anna was unconscious early, and we were handling the ball well at the start. We don't see pressure like Summertown brings during the season.

Chad Hall

The stream of life, - which, in other men, obstructed and at last stationary as the objects that surround it, seems scarcely to deserve the name,- in them rolls ever onward its rich and life-giving waters as if unconscious of the beautiful banks it has overflowed with fertility.

Jones Very

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

Neale Donald Walsch

Punched [a] detainee with a closed fist so hard in the temple that it knocked the detainee unconscious.

Jeremy Sivits

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

David Letterman

If I won, I'd probably go unconscious, ... Which would be bad, because then there would be no acceptance speech.

George Canyon

There were about 13 witnesses who saw her get knocked to the ground and beaten until she was unconscious. No one lifted a finger to help her.

Cynthia Hurtie

It's almost enough to make you believe in Jung's notion of collective unconscious, ... If there is an American collective unconscious, Bobby had somehow tapped into it.

Dave Van Ronk

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

Anais Nin

Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.

G. Wilhelm Leibniz

An elderly female was found the doorway leading from the parlor to the bedrooms in semi-conscious condition suffering from smoke inhalation. An elderly male was then found in the parlor unconscious and also suffering from smoke inhalation.

Fire Capt. Emmit Kane

Firefighters found two men who were unfortunately unconscious and in one case the death was confirmed at the hospital. In the other, the man is in very critical condition.

Olivier Lapointe

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

Richard Dawkins

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

Jackson Pollock

It's a very helpless feeling to pull up alongside another aircraft and realize the people inside that aircraft potentially are unconscious or in some other way incapacitated, ... And there's nothing I can do physically from my aircraft -- even though I'm 50 to 100 feet away -- to help them at all.

Chris Hamilton

I got out of my chair and waded into the water, which was about three feet deep. I rolled him over and he was unconscious, his lips had a purple tint. He wasn't breathing. I picked the boy up in my arms and whistled for assistance.

Eric Harper