Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Neuman, Alfred E.

Best Quotes about Mind

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

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

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

Buddha

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Plutarch

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

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

Loos, Anita

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

Descartes, Rene

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Terence

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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Riley, Terry

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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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What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Rand, Ayn

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Sarnoff, David

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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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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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