Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Neuman, Alfred E.

The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Smith, Adam

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Steinbeck, John

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.

Carlson, Richard

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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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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 hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Loos, Anita

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

Dubay, S.

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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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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Sarnoff, David

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cousins, Norman

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The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

Bhagavad Gita

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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

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The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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If you never change your mind, why have one?