Motivational Quotes

Mind

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

- Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Best Quotes about Mind

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.

Dubay, S.

The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

Jessel, George

The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Smith, Adam

There's nobody out there. It's all in here.

Pancoast, Mal

How are you ever going to stop being weary until you've made your mind up to be strong.

Praise, Endless

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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

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Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

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The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

Johnson

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Cousins, Norman

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Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Cuppy, Will

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Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it is nothing. Everything is matter. Matter is electricity. Electricity is invisible, intangible. Therefore it is nothing. Therefore, everything is nothing. Atoms are made up of electrons and protons. (Protons are also nothing) Fifty billion electrons placed side to side in a straight line would stretch across the diameter of the period at the end of this sentence. Protons are heavier and take up less space. Such an idea is incapable of absorption by the human mind.

Lardner, John

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While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Terence

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

Wright, Steven

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My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Woolf, Virginia

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Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.

Carlson, Richard

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.

Speare, Grace

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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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The brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn't wear out. Probably it's because the brain is the only part that is not overworked.

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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

Syrus, Publilius

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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Auden, W. H.

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The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

Bhagavad Gita

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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Robbins, Anthony

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The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greek said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

Hamilton, Edith

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Dyer, Wayne

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

Highet, Gilbert

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Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Madwed, Sidney

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The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Freud, Sigmund

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We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

Shakespeare, William

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If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

Dyer, Wayne

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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

Carnegie, Andrew

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This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind.

Maltz, Maxwell