Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Sperry, Roger

Best Quotes about Mind

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

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 was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

Wright, Steven

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

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

Loos, Anita

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Nightingale, Earl

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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How are you ever going to stop being weary until you've made your mind up to be strong.

Praise, Endless

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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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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

Durant, William J.

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hare, David

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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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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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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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Kempis, Thomas

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A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Baba, Meher

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

Johnson

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

Cioran, E. M.

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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Freud, Sigmund

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The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Milton, John

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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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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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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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This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind.

Maltz, Maxwell

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