Motivational Quotes

Mind

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

- Baba, Meher

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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

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

Plutarch

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

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Jenner, Bruce

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

Sperry, Roger

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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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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 Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Dickens, Charles

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

Auden, W. H.

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While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Terence

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

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

Loos, Anita

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The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

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

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

Dubay, S.

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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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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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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 hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Buddha

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Wright, Steven

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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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

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

Sarnoff, David