Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Crane, George W.

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Sperry, Roger

We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Durant, William J.

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

Dickens, Charles

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Hendricks, Gay

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

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

Terence

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The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

Grass, Gunther

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Steinbeck, John

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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Dubay, S.

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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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There is nothing so lovely and enduring in the regions which surround us, above and below, as the lasting peace of a mind centered in God.

Vasishtha, Yoga

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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Horace

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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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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Johnson

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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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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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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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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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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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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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Buckley, Lord

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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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Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Fairfax, Edward

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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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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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The mind, like the dyer's hand, is colored by what it holds.