Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Mind

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

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Wilson, Colin

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

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

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

Buckley, Lord

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

Plutarch

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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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 mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Descartes, Rene

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I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it is nothing. Everything is matter. Matter is electricity. Electricity is invisible, intangible. Therefore it is nothing. Therefore, everything is nothing. Atoms are made up of electrons and protons. (Protons are also nothing) Fifty billion electrons placed side to side in a straight line would stretch across the diameter of the period at the end of this sentence. Protons are heavier and take up less space. Such an idea is incapable of absorption by the human mind.

Lardner, John

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

Wright, Steven

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

Steinbeck, John

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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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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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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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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

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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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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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Cousins, Norman

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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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

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If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

Dyer, Wayne

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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.