Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

Your Design mind (right brain) attends to the melody of life, whereas your Sign mind (left brain) attends to the notes that compose the melodies. And here is the key to natural writing: the melodies must come first.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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

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

Churchill, Winston

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Seneca

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

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Johnson, Gerald W.

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Johnson

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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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

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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Don't let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.

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The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

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Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience.

Harman, Willis

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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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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Plutarch

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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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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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Crane, George W.

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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 waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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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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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Dubay, S.

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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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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

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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