(8 quotes found)
“Hypnosis is probably the closest metaphor as a state but I don't know if I could equate it [with television watching]. Hypnosis is a state where you destabilize the ordinary state and then eventually get people into an altered state where they will follow a particular stimulus input much more strongly and with much less critical reflection than they would normally; there is certainly a lot of comparability there.”
Charles Tart
“You've been in a state of hypnosis thousands of times.”
Rhoda Kopy
“Idiocy is like hypnosis or ejaculation: if you want it, you can't have it-and if you don't want it, you can.”
Lars von Trier
“He was kind of in a daze in the first half. Someone snapped a finger, the hypnosis was over, and he was back to Jon Brockman.”
Lorenzo Romar
“It was like someone snapped their finger and the hypnosis was over, and he went back to being Jon Brockman.”
“You cannot prove a lie true by pointing out how many other people fell for it.”
Rain Bojangles
“Great achievements don’t happen to Lucky People it’s people who believe there lucky everyday; who create them”
Gavin Hooper
“I had tried patches, hypnosis and everything. Nothing worked.”
Barbara Warren