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

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

Durant, William J.

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

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

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

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Freud, Sigmund

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

Philo

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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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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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For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace.

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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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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

Aesop

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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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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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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Terence