Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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

Fairfax, Edward

We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dickens, Charles

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

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

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

Plutarch

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

Loos, Anita

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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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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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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

Sallust

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Dubay, S.

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The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

Johnson

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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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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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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 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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The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.

Steinbeck, John

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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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 Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Wright, Steven

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

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Crane, George W.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Buddha

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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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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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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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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 chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.