Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception does occur-that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition.

Phillips, Maureen

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

Loos, Anita

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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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How are you ever going to stop being weary until you've made your mind up to be strong.

Praise, Endless

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Horace

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Plutarch

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Descartes, Rene

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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 ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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I am not a disbeliever in those who have told me they went to bed in the evening with an unsolved problem on their mind and woke up in the morning to find, waiting for them there in their consciousness, the correct answer.

Hanson, Dr. Jean

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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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We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Wright, Steven

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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