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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Plutarch

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

Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

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

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Johnson

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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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 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 wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.

Carlson, Richard

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

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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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Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

Daniel, Peter

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Churchill, Winston

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There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

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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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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Terence