Motivational Quotes

Mind

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

- Wright, Steven

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

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

Sperry, Roger

We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

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

Johnson

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

Loos, Anita

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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 human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Dubay, S.

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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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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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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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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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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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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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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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

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

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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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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

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

Hare, David

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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