Motivational Quotes

Mind

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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

Descartes, Rene

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

Epictetus

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

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

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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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

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When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

Ashvaghosha

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

Steinbeck, John

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Sallust

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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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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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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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The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Smith, Adam

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Auden, W. H.

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He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Aesop

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

Cousins, Norman

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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 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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo