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

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Seneca

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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Churchill, Winston

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

Durant, William J.

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Descartes, Rene

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Plutarch

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Hill, Napoleon

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Aesop

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Einstein, Albert

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Sperry, Roger

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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 can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Crane, George W.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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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 waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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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

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Wright, Steven

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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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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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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