Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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

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

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

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

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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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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Cousins, Norman

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

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

Aesop

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

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Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams --can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Plutarch

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Hare, David

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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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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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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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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

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