Motivational Quotes

Mind

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Buckley, Lord

The water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Terence

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

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

Praise, Endless

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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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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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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Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

Daniel, Peter

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

Fairfax, Edward

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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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Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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

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

Dubay, S.

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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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The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

Johnson

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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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

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Churchill, Winston

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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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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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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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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 mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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 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

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Wright, Steven

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We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.

Speare, Grace

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

Steinbeck, John