Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Wilson, Colin

Best Quotes about Mind

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

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

Chuang Tzu

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Pancoast, Mal

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What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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

Loos, Anita

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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Breton, Andre

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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 chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Jenner, Bruce

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

Sallust

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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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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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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The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

Highet, Gilbert

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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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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 is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Brande, Dorothea

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.