Motivational Quotes

Mind

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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Best Quotes about Mind

All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

Bhagavad Gita

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Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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

Buckley, Lord

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Wright, Steven

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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

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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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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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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 Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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

Aesop

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There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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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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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