Motivational Quotes

Mind

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

Bhagavad Gita

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Plutarch

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Freud, Sigmund

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald 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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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dyer, Wayne

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Dubay, S.

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

Aesop

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Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Jenner, Bruce

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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 waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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The mind, like the dyer's hand, is colored by what it holds.

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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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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