Mind Quotes - Page 197

First and fore-most, you must have confidence. Your second mental problem is concentration. Think the shot through in advance before you address the ball. Draw a mental image of where you want it to go and then eliminate everything else from your mind, except how you are going to get the ball into that preferred spot.

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

While the body is young and fine, the soul blunders, but as the body grows old it attains its highest power. Again, every good soul uses mind; but no body can produce mind: for how should that which is without mind produce mind? Again, while the soul uses the body as an instrument, it is not in it; just as the engineer is not in his engines (although many engines move without being touched by any one).

I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I didI learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.

It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.

A lot of people wonder how you can tell if you're really in love. Just ask yourself this question: 'Would I mind being financially destroyed by this person?'

The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but simply, that the modern mind cannot accept it.

Push yourself to do more and to experience more. Harness your energy to start expanding your dreams. Yes, expand your dreams. Don't accept a life of mediocrity when you hold such infinite potential within the fortress of your mind. Dare to tap into your greatness.

Changing the game is a mindset.

You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you?" Elayne asked. "I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more.

The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.

As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire.

Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

To make the most of your life you must keep the vision of eternity continually in your mind and the value of it in your heart.

I want to know a lot of things I don't already know -especially as the things I do know, if written down, do not have the permanence I want in my mind.

You know how to tell when you're getting old? When your broad mind changes places with your narrow waist.

Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions.

The mind can also be an erogenous zone.

Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.

The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.

That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.

My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got.

Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.