Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Loos, Anita

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Sperry, Roger

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

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

Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.

Carlson, Richard

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Rand, Ayn

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

Riley, Terry

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

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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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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 waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Terence

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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 will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

Highet, Gilbert

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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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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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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Dubay, S.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Loos, Anita

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Mind is the Master--power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills--He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.

Allen, James

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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

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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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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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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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Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.

Horace

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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 employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

Sallust

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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.