Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

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

Hare, David

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Auden, W. H.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Brande, Dorothea

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

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The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

Grass, Gunther

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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Sperry, Roger

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Horace

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Riley, Terry

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

Fairfax, Edward

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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 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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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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Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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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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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 components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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