Mind Quotes - Page 15

You must keep your mind on the objective, not on the obstacle.

We are perfect and it's just for us to acknowledge this aspect of us, be conscious in our thoughts and use mind power to bring forth the betterment of the nation.

Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?

Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!

Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.

Be loyal to your own piece of mind.

Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.

When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.

It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.

Life is so much wiser and kinder than your mind imagines. Trust & Be Still.

The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst.

It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.

The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.

A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind's eye.

Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two."

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

That is very fine; but it is impossible to make the men perfect; the men will always remain the same as they are now; and no legislation will make a man have more presence of mind, or, I believe, make him more cautious; and besides that, the next time such an accident occurs, the circumstances will be so different, that the instructions given to the men, in consequence of the former accident, will not apply.

I say that creeds, dogmas, and theologies are inventions of the mind. It is the nature of the mind to make sense out of experience, to reduce the conglomerates of experience to units of comprehension which we call principles, or ideologies, or concepts. Religious experience is dynamic, fluid, effervescent, yeasty. But the mind can't handle these so it has to imprison religious experience in some way, get it bottled up. Then, when the experience quiets down, the mind draws a bead on it and extracts concepts, notions, dogmas, so that religious experience can make sense to the mind.

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

That wall is your mind playing tricks on you. You just need to say, 'One more step, I can do this. I have more in me.' You'll be so proud of yourself once you push yourself past your threshold.

It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.

To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.

The mind of one who practises doesn't run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all. The meditator simply knows them, they don't enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.