Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

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

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Crane, George W.

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Smith, Adam

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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 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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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

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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

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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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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Wright, Steven

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

Plutarch

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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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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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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Fairfax, Edward

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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