Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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

Loos, Anita

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Armstrong, Edith

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

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

It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Descartes, Rene

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

Freud, Sigmund

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Johnson

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

Sarnoff, David

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Phillips, Maureen

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

Sallust

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Jenner, Bruce

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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.

Horace

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Hare, David

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If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

Dyer, Wayne

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Great athletes train their minds as well as their bodies. There are various mental conditioning techniques many use when preparing for an event. Perhaps the best known technique is visualization, creating a mental image not only of the desired result (the gold medal, a new world record, a hole-in-one), but also of every move that will be taken en route to the ultimate goal.

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

Aesop

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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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 empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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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 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

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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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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