Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Maslow, Abraham H.

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 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

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

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

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Aesop

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

Crane, George W.

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

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

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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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greek said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

Hamilton, Edith

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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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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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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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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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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Steinbeck, John

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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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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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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