Mind Quotes - Page 180

... sometimes when you are asked a question that is difficult, the mind doesn't stay silent if it doesn't have the answer. The mind produces something, and what it produces very characteristically is the answer to an easier but related question.

The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.

To summarize, using money to motivate people can be a double-edged sword. For tasks that require cognitive ability, low to moderate performance-based incentives can help. But when the incentive level is very high, it can command too much attention and thereby distract the person’s mind with thoughts about the reward. This can create stress and ultimately reduce the level of performance.

If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.

We move toward what we picture in our minds.

Real power has to do with one's ability to influence the hearts and minds of others.

Fear, hatred, and suspicion narrow your mind - compassion opens it.

Psychology was going to be my minor in college. I've always been really interested in the human mind, which is probably why I'm an actor.

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

The more you think of harmony, of health, of success, of happiness, of things that are desirable, of things that are beautiful, of things that have true worth, the more the mind will tend to build all those things in yourself, provided, of course, that all such thinking is subjective.

There's a magic that comes from playing entirely to who you are. I've got my specialist subject - in the Mastermind sense - and I wouldn't change it, or who I am.

In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.

Deja vu is one of the weirdest things that happens to me. It boggles my mind.

As the thoughts so the mind. If thoughts are good, mind is good. If thoughts are bad, the mind is called bad.

I wouldn't mind living with someone forever. I don't really want to get married. I don't see any reason for it. And yet I'm so romantic that every time I think I meet someone I want to live with them forever and ever.

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world colour and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I call "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind.

The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.

There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.

People don't need sudden revelations. They get what they need when they need it, thought by thought by thought. It's a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.

I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind.

No matter your position, circumstances, or opportunities in life, you always have the freedom of mind to choose how you experience, interpret, and, ultimately, shape your world.

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.