Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

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

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Hare, David

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greek said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

Hamilton, Edith

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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 mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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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As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Brande, Dorothea

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Plutarch

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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 human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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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 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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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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We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Aesop

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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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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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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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Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Madwed, Sidney

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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 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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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 wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Hendricks, Gay

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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

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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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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 human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.