Mind Quotes - Page 184

The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

If you want to establish a clear image in the minds of consumers, you first need a clear image in your own mind.

The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease.

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

A beach walk is for stretching your legs and your mind, for looking at life with newfound eyes.

Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.

The true Human Being is the Innermost, He does not have problems. The problems are from the mind.

Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future, but the living experience is what is happening NOW.

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

In most cases we perform better when we're busy than when we're not busy. When we're slow, our mind wanders. We're not as attentive to our business. When we're on the firing line, we're sharper. We move more quickly and get the job done right.

What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and, unless they divined this somehow in advance, they don't know that we don't want this inexorable onslaught of breakfasts and phone calls and going to the bank, all this stepping along, because we don't want anything extraneous to get in the way of what we feel about them or the ways we want to hold them in mind.

Apart from being interested in a good role, I think it's necessary to make up your mind as to whether it will make a movie that will entertain an audience all over the world and not just in your own backyard.

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

Productivity is less about what you do with your time. And more about how you run your mind.

Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.

We can't run out of resources. Resources exist when the human mind sees how to use something.

Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor's mind toward some resolution which it may never find.

I'm definitely of the mindset of "I wouldn't want to be part of any group that would have me as a member."

The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which is the mind, the organized mind.

In meditation you experience time slowing down because you can notice more things per discreet moment and you're more open... The word 'meditation' in Sanskrit comes from the word 'familiarization' - as in familiarization with one's own mind.

All you have in life is your reputation: you may be very rich, but if you lose your good name, then you'll never be happy. The thought will always lurk at the back of your mind that people don't trust you.

Only a fool never changes his mind.

The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.

Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.