Motivational Quotes

Mind

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Mind

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Aesop

11.

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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I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Armstrong, Edith

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception does occur-that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition.

Phillips, Maureen

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Dubay, S.

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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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It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Descartes, Rene

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

Shakespeare, William

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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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I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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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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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

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

Dickens, Charles

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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.