Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

Ramakrishna, Sri

A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

Hilliard, Nicholas

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Hendricks, Gay

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Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

Daniel, Peter

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

Sperry, Roger

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Great athletes train their minds as well as their bodies. There are various mental conditioning techniques many use when preparing for an event. Perhaps the best known technique is visualization, creating a mental image not only of the desired result (the gold medal, a new world record, a hole-in-one), but also of every move that will be taken en route to the ultimate goal.

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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

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.

Horace

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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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

21.

All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

22.

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Riley, Terry

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Wright, Steven

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

Baba, Meher

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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Breton, Andre

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Rand, Ayn

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I am not a disbeliever in those who have told me they went to bed in the evening with an unsolved problem on their mind and woke up in the morning to find, waiting for them there in their consciousness, the correct answer.

Hanson, Dr. Jean

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

Auden, W. H.

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He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

Bhagavad Gita

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There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

44.

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Aesop

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

Descartes, Rene

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Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

49.

If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.

Bentov, Itzhak

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.