Motivational Quotes

Mind

You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

- Crane, George W.

Best Quotes about Mind

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Baba, Meher

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

Sperry, Roger

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

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

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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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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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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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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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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Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams --can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Dubay, S.

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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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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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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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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 wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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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If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.

Bentov, Itzhak

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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 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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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 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 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

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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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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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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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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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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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Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

Daniel, Peter

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

Dickens, Charles

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