If you say to yourself 'It's difficult to get up in the morning', 'It's hard to cease smoking', then you are already using hypnotic suggestions on yourself — Richard Bandler
Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior. — Guy Debord
What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights! — Emile M. Cioran
If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive. — Brian Molko
It would be a fine thing, in which I hardly dare believe, to pass our lives near each other, hypnotized by our dreams. — Pierre Curie
Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic. — Salvador Dali
Short Hypnotic Quotes
Cars can have a hypnotic effect. You can get in a car and get out and not really remember the trip. — Ryan Gosling
Show me your sun. The rhythm of your eyes. Love is not as certain as this hypnotic time. — Gustavo Cerati
Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right — Tom Robbins
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time — Alan Watts
I can hypnotize rabbits. — Elena Anaya
There's just something hypnotic about maps. — Ken Jennings
I love fire. Fire is hypnotic. — Robert Englund
I am really obsessed with finding melodies that just hypnotize you and sink you into a song. — Hoodie Allen
David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic. . . . — Miriam Toews
Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry — Aldous Huxley
Wise Quotes
Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself — Rumi
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. — Charles Spurgeon
A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. — Claude Levi-Strauss
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. — Albert Einstein
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her. — Helen Rowland
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything. — African Proverbs
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind. — Albert Schweitzer
The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so. — Henrik Ibsen
What we had learned over time is that we could no longer communicate with government agencies. We actually couldn’t even communicate with our propagandized colleagues in major medical centers, all of which appear to be under a spell, almost as if they are hypnotized right now. — Peter A. McCullough
It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system. — Will Durant
I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there. — Eric Clapton
Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors of life and death assume their proper values. Thinking becomes clear because there are no earthly foibles or embellishments to confuse it. — Ernest K. Gann
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us. — Vernon Howard
People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Because we do not rest we lose our way...Poisoned by the hypnotic belief that good things come only through unceasing determination and tireless effort, we never truly rest. And for want of rest, our lives are in danger. — Wayne Muller
The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion with the most fortuitous of phenomena. — Odilon Redon
My kids are fanatical about 'Scooby-Doo,' and I think that the creators of 'Scooby-Doo' somehow tripped across some kind of magical hypnotic formula that lures children. It's far more fascinating to them than anything else on the air. — Dave Willis
Most people think witches are a coven of lesbians dancing naked in the forest celebrating the semen stolen from imprisoned hypnotized males, which they then use to inseminate one another using turkey basters in order to create a legion of demon babies. Well, that's only part of it. We are also active in community outreach programs. — Amy Sedaris
Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly. — Charles Fort
It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized! — Joey Santiago
The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures. — Jimmy Page
Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most people are hypnotized by organized religion from childhood. — Grace Slick
What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders? — John Updike
Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens. — Jason Whitlock
If you were listening to the hypnotic voice of your Source, you'd be constantly hearing the drum beating that says, 'You are loved, and you are worthy, and you are valued and life is supposed to be good for you. You are worthy, you are valued, you are loved and life is supposed to be good for you.' — Esther Hicks
... and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell. — Roald Dahl
When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions. — John Fahey
As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me. — Theodore Sturgeon
Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. As Tolstoy used to say, they are laboring under the hypnotic influence of man. If they would realize the strength of non-violence they would not consent to be called the weaker sex. — Mahatma Gandhi
It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction. — Richard Le Gallienne
I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life. — Byron Katie
Been stuck in airports, terrorized; sent to meetings, hypnotized; overexposed, commercialized. Handle me with care. — George Harrison
There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal. — Chogyam Trungpa
Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze. — Albert Einstein
I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love. — Tom Perrotta
One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way. — Fritz Kreisler
Musically, I am still hooked and just hypnotized by the sound of the guitar itself. I mean, a guitar sounds good if you drop it on the floor. — Leo Kottke
Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly. — Anne Lamott
So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living. — Virginia Woolf
There are so many bad songs that have incredible videos. It's pretty amazing, actually. The power of putting images to music is hypnotizing. It's a real power. That's a realm that I've failed at completely. — Devendra Banhart
For me, there is a strong hypnotic power in noise-music, and that's something I don't want to leave out of my music anymore. — Christian Fennesz
One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life. — Friedrich Nietzsche
He was telling the students about the hypnotic technique of using quotes in a conversation. An idea is more palatable ... if it comes from someone else. The unconscious thinks in terms of content and structure. If you introduce a pattern with the words, 'My friend was telling me,' the critical part of her mind shuts off. — Neil Strauss
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