Motivational Quotes

Mind

Brains aren't designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

- Bandler, Richard

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Dyer, Wayne

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Baba, Meher

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Sallust

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Freud, Sigmund

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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Fuller, Buckminster

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There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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 true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

Johnson

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

Syrus, Publilius

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I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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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 disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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Brains aren't designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

Bandler, Richard

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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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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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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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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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 never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

Highet, Gilbert

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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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Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Brande, Dorothea