Mind Quotes - Page 51

To my mind losing is always better than never trying, because you can never tell what may happen.

Let my lips avoid vain repetition as I lift my voice in praise, O Lord. Distract me from my distractions, awaken me from the dullness of mind, and transform habit and routine into vibrant times of worship.

Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer.

If you have no obstacles in your own mind, then outer obstacles will not hinder you or cause you worry.

Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind.

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

It boggles my mind that the same people who cry ‘foul’ about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people – elders, the poor, the disabled – who are least able to bear them.

The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.

Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.

For "full" emotional communication, one person needs to allow his state of mind to be influenced by that of the other.

The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind - creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.

People only go to the places they have visited first in their minds.

It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.

We need, men so possessed by the Spirit of God that God can think His thoughts through our minds, that He can plan His will through our actions, that He can direct His strategy of world evangelization through His Church.

When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed.

Change your mind and it will change your life. If nothing around you changes, changes the things that are around you.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.

Finding the balance between body, mind and spirit is a great achievement.

Meditation gives you the wherewithal to pause, observe how easily the mind can exaggerate the severity of a setback, and resist getting drawn into the abyss.

We only work… the most I ever work is three days a week. Very rare that I will work four. If I’'m involved in a scenario where they need me to be in it, I don'’t mind. They always work around my children’s schedule, their sports, and stuff like that. That’s been very important to me.

Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.

Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.

Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.

Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.