Motivational Quotes

Mind

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Mind

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

You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Buckley, Lord

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

Nightingale, Earl

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Don't let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.

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

All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Cousins, Norman

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

Johnson

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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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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Einstein, Albert

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The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

Jessel, George

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Wright, Steven

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Brande, Dorothea

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Auden, W. H.

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Dubay, S.

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Breton, Andre

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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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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 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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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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I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Horace