Best 48 quotes in «the mind quotes» category

Imaginary diseases are the hardest to cure.

I think of that, too: her mind. Her brain, all those coils, and her thoughts shuttling through those coils like fast, frantic centipedes. Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts. What are you thinking, Amy?

It is well understood in psychology that the subconscious mind has the dominant influence on human decision making, and therefore the pivotal role of the subconscious, for you to achieve success, is inescapable.

It is one thing to be free; to be ignorant and free is to be imprisoned.

Parental care, satisfaction, friendship, compassion, and grief didn’t just suddenly appear with the emergence of modern humans. All began their journey in pre-human beings. Our brain’s provenance is inseparable from other species’ brains in the long cauldron of living time. And thus, so is our mind.

Look, you can't think of a person like it's one thing, one 'I' that decides everything. The brain is a collective, a huge number of all these thinking modules. It doesn't make a decision, it arrives at one.

One does not ultimately have or "own" a "mind": Infinity cannot be possessed. Consciousness is infinite and the human manifestation is a microcosm for this quantum reality as scientists are now beginning to discover, and sages have understood through direct experience spanning from antiquity prior to history.

Modern society is large and complex, with institutions wielding great power over the lives of many. This is why Johnson and Fowler added a dire parting shot in their predictions. Since you are programmed to become increasingly overconfident the less you understand about any given scenario, you can expect to find the most destructive overconfidence in places that are exceedingly complicated and unpredictable.

People do not often stop to dwell on the reality that the most difficult daily challenges we face are a result of dealing with human energies. That vibe they sent you, that vibration you picked up... that's just as real as the chair you are sitting on. Our souls are struggling, playing, fighting, winning, losing... all on the playing fields and the battle grounds of human energy.

Success is a mindset just as failure is, but they can never coexist in the same mind.

Saying that it's all in your mind is a figure of speech. Don't let your mind play with your mental well being

She saw how the mind makes forever, in order to store the things it had already lost.

The human mind is a weird place.

The mind can only be as strong or as weak as the thoughts and beliefs that are constantly planted in it.

The mind creates all these fears and doubts which only action can cure.

The mind creates all these doubts and fears which only action can cure.

The mind's best trick is the illusion that it exists.

The mind is like an empty canvas and we are all artists, who spend our entire lives creating our own unique masterpieces.

The mind is the pit for which all dump trucks go to release their trash

There is no transcending our minds, only using them optimally.

So there you have it: hearing voices at sea is not a pathological condition. It’s quite normal. Welcome to the world of illusions at sea. Of mirages, looming, towering, stooping and sinking. Of moons that change size, suns that change shape, horizons that bend, lights that change colour, and sounds that play hide and seek. Of waves that speak, ships that effervesce and whales that turn into baby elephants. For the sea has a lobsterpot full of tricks and illusions to confuse and beguile even the most rational 21st century sailor.

The mind can start to work in your favor or against you at any given time. It's a matter of turning your thoughts and beliefs around.

The mind creates all this dissatisfaction and self-doubt which only action can cure.

The mind creates all this self-hate and self-doubt which only action can cure.

The mind uses the power of thought to win the world.

The mind is created when the universal consciousness conforms to societal consciousness.

The mind is deeper than the horizon, bigger than the universe, and more mysterious than space.

The mind is a wonderful thing, the better you feel, the more you can access.

There is nothing you lack and all you will find; we are one at the heart - just divided by mind. Don't let life pass you by.

The sub-conscious mind is so powerful in such a way that even if you empty your mind of all its components, there will be a little thought; it is synonymous to a well informed person who can never be deformed.

The varied players—objects and events, currently present or recalled from memory—do not pluck the strings of any violins or cellos and do not press the keys of countless pianos, but the metaphor captures the situation. Objects and eventsdo “play,” in the sense that they, as distinct entities within the organism’s mind, can act on certain neural structures of the organism, “affect” their state, and change those other structures for a passing moment. Over the “playing time,” their actions result in a certain kind of music, the music of our thoughts and feelings and of the meanings that emerge from the inner narratives they help construct. The result may be subtle or not so. Sometimes it amounts to an operatic performance. You can attend it passively, or you can intervene, modify the score to a greater or smaller extent, and produce unpredicted results.

They thought more before nine a.m. than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand cocked his head and said, 'Ahh! Iconoclast. Disdains the easy, symbolic patriotism.' And when I tried to laugh it off and said, well, I didn't like cherry cobbler either, Marybeth touched Rand's arm: 'Because of the divorce. All those comfort foods, the desserts a family eats together, those are just bad memories for Nick.' It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like cherries.

Thought for the day: we have far too many of them. And we prize them too highly; more so than we do the power of silence, mindfulness and pure kindness.

Wrong, and wrong agains,' he said. 'The likeness is already there. The metaphor only sees it. And it is not a mere figure of speech. It is the very essence of our minds as we seek to make sense of our surroundings, our experiences, ourselves, seeing similarities, parallels, connections. We cannot help it. Even as the mind fails, it goes on trying to make sense of what is happening to it.

The unconscious has become the subconscious mind conscious, and in love with itself. Take a look at the universe and see yourself as you really are.

We need to resist the tendency of the mind to diminish life, the world and who we are.

Your mind will never be dull, if you remember there is never enough to learn for it to be to full.

You shall only continue to feel bitter when you continue to make your mind the doorstep for footprints of bitterness! When you mind your mind, you mind your mind, you mind your heart, you mind your body and you mind your spirit! The only rest stop in your body for bitterness is your mind. Don’t forget! Mind your mind!

As understanding deepens, the further removed it becomes from knowledge.

A smile is a blue sky where the mind can fly.

Don't despair if you wake up feeling useless or empty. It's not life, it's not reality, it's only your mind.

A mission of over abundant crops, it's a vision of mansions and Ferrari drop tops. Lay me in a tomb wearing a crown with a serpent on its midpoint; it's a symbol of perfect consciousness, a knowledge of my power as limitless. Take a look to the Bible and turn back to Yahweh standard of perfectionists.

Don't think about it; FEEL about it.

Don't give your mind five star service.

Ever been in a spelling bee as a kid? That snowy second after the announcement of the word as you sift your brain to see if you can spell it? It was like that, the blank panic.

If a creative person steals your idea, he’s killing his creative ability, if he steals your art, he’s killing his art, if he makes it available to the world, it won,t create de impact you could have created, because it wasn’t from the right source.

If you believe that you are not omnipresent, omniscient, and ultimately omnipotent, then you are deluded.

I am aware that when we see something, we are getting only a measure of information, a sense, an inkling of what is really there to see. I don't know the details or the terminology but I do know that the optic nerve is not telling the full truth. We're seeing only intimations. The rest is our invention, our way of constructing what is actual, if there is any such thing, philosophically, that we can call actual.