Motivational Quotes

Mind

Mind is the Master--power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills--He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.

- Allen, James

Best Quotes about Mind

You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Buckley, Lord

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

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Baba, Meher

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

Maltz, Maxwell

What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

Sperry, Roger

It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Descartes, Rene

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Brande, Dorothea

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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Einstein, Albert

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When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

Ashvaghosha

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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Neuman, Alfred E.

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

Kempis, Thomas

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Brains aren't designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

Bandler, Richard

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It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.

Collier, Robert

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

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Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.

Steinbeck, John

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Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams --can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

Wordsworth, William

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We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -- we remember only.

Miller, Henry

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The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Dickens, Charles

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It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception does occur-that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition.

Phillips, Maureen

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There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Hill, Napoleon

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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Armstrong, Edith

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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

Durant, William J.

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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Hare, David

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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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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

Chuang Tzu

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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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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Dickens, Charles