Motivational Quotes

Mind

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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Best Quotes about Mind

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

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

Maltz, Maxwell

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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

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

Riley, Terry

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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

Loos, Anita

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Horace

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The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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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 human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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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

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

Sperry, Roger

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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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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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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

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It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Fairfax, Edward

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The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

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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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While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Terence

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There is nothing so lovely and enduring in the regions which surround us, above and below, as the lasting peace of a mind centered in God.

Vasishtha, Yoga

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

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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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Jackson, Andrew