Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Praise, Endless

Harman, Willis

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.

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

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

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

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

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

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

Sallust

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

Wright, Steven

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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

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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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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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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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A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

Loos, Anita

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Crane, George W.

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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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You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors -- how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices.

Wooden, John

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Dyer, Wayne