Motivational Quotes

Mind

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Terence

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

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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 beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

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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 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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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

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

Sallust

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There's nobody out there. It's all in here.

Pancoast, Mal

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The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Riley, Terry

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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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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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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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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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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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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 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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Loos, Anita

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

Dubay, S.

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Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Aesop

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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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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 at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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