Mind Quotes - Page 151

Your body is not who you are. The mind and spirit transcend the body.

The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it.

The same spiritual fulfillment that people find in religion can be found in science by coming to know, if you will, the mind of God.

I work on two levels. I occupy my conscious mind with things to do, lines to draw, movements to organize, rhythms to invent. In fact, I keep myself occupied. But that allows other things to happen which I'm not controlling... the more I exercise my conscious mind, the more open the other things may find that they can come through.

Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train, and utilize this precious gift.

Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the next thing better. Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.

If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?

A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.

You've got to develop mental strength. And you develop mental strength with the will. The will is the mental faculty that gives you the ability to hold one idea under the screen of your mind to the exclusion of all outside distractions.

There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.

Disaster preparedness, whether it's in anticipation of potential weather-related incidents or terrorist incidents requires a skill set that in my mind someone has to be trained for,.

you can do anything you set your mind to

The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.

After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.

You must learn to end the wars in your world by ending them in your minds.

A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.

I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out. Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time. I do that because I want to - because I like to change my mind so often. The thing to do is always to keep starting to paint, never finishing painting.

He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world.

It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.

Something pure to burn away the darkness that hides inside my mind

I love Latino culture but I hate the concept of "la raza." It is a divisive mindset.