Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Dewar, Thomas Robert

Best Quotes about Mind

For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

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

Buddha

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

Daniel, Peter

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

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 incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Riley, Terry

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Sperry, Roger

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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The brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn't wear out. Probably it's because the brain is the only part that is not overworked.

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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 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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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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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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 wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

Chuang Tzu

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Loos, Anita

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Milton, John

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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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Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Fairfax, Edward

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Dickens, Charles