Quotes About Mind

Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.

Even if your body doesn't work the way it used to, the heart and the mind and the spirit are not diminished.

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time

I do not play games. There is not time for it. When I get through with work, I don't want anything that requires the working of the mind.

We affirm the harmony that we seek in order to provide the subconscious with a blue print of the work to be done.

I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug.

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.

Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important

There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions.

Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.

There can be no doubt that probability increases with practice. Fortune favours the brave, fortune favours the prepared mind, and fortune favours those who work the hardest.

Most of our problems are related to the mind, so we have to work to reduce our destructive emotions.

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

I've always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved.

Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.

The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.

Keeping the mind happy makes work effortless. This is the skill for productivity!

I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control.

I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.

Red lights, green lights, stop and go jive. Headlines, deadlines, jamming your mind.

I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.