Motivational Quotes

Mind

Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

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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.

Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Neuman, Alfred E.

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Fairfax, Edward

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

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

Auden, W. H.

We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.

Speare, Grace

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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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The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greek said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

Hamilton, Edith

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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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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

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

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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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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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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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 incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Riley, Terry

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The water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds.

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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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Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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 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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The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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The brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn't wear out. Probably it's because the brain is the only part that is not overworked.

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

Loos, Anita

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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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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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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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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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You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Crane, George W.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.