Quotes About Mind

La mente creativa es un don sagrado y la mente racional un sirviente fiel –dijo, en cierta ocasión, Albert Einstein–. Por ello resulta muy curioso que hayamos creado una sociedad que, olvidando el don, haya acabado honrando al sirviente.» [12

passions overwhelm reason time and again.

el descontrol emocional obstaculiza la labor del intelecto

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant," Albert Einstein

El estado de ánimo de las personas cuando su mente divaga tiende, hablando en términos generales, hacia lo displacentero, hasta el punto de que pensamientos con un contenido aparentemente neutro se ven ensombrecidos por una carga emocional negativa. Pareciera como si la mente errante fuese, en parte o casi totalmente, una de las causas de la infelicidad.

os sentimentos são essenciais para o pensamento e vice-versa. Mas, quando surgem as paixões, esse equilíbrio se desfaz: é a mente emocional que assume o comando, inundando a mente racional.

In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels.

La mente del lector suele divagar entre el 20 y 40% del tiempo que dedica a la lectura.

The very fact that about half of our thoughts are daydreams suggests there may well be some advantages to a mind that can entertain the fanciful.

el estrés atonta a la gente».

Quando a nossa mente vagueia, o nosso cérebro ativa um conjunto de circuitos cerebrais que tagarelam sobre coisas que não têm nada que ver com aquilo que estamos a tentar aprender. Na ausência de foco, nenhuma nova recordação daquilo que aprendemos é armazenada.

O sonhar acordado dá cabo do treino; quem vai vendo televisão enquanto pratica exercício nunca atingirá os níveis cimeiros. Dar total atenção parece aumentar a velocidade de processamento da mente.

Focusing on what's wrong about what we do activates circuitry for distressing emotions. Emotions, remember, guide our attention. And attention glides away from the unpleasant.

The emotional/rational dichotomy approximates the folk distinction between heart and head; knowing something is right in your heart is a different order of conviction - somehow a deeper kind of certainty - than thinking so with your rational mind.

A reader's mind typically wanders anywhere from 20 to 40 percent of the time while perusing a text.

Think of attention as a mental muscle that we can strengthen by a workout. Memorization works that muscle, as does concentration. The mental analog of lifting a free weight over and over is noticing when our mind wanders and bringing it back to target.

How confusing. Could it be that our narrator is unreliable? No such chance. Mind like a steel trap, I have.

The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.

The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.

Nothing in our minds is ever really gone.

The ice had broken between us and the gap was widening as the current of my mind carried me swiftly into the open sea.

My mind is a blank. At this point my feelings are more important than anything else.

Life and work are the most wonderful things a man can have. I am in love with what I am doing, because the answer to this problem is right here in my mind, and soon—very soon—it will burst into consciousness.

It is impossible to tell what proportion is memory and what exists here and now--so that a strange compound is formed of memory and reality; past and present; response to stimuli stored in my brain centers, an response to stimuli in this room. It's as if all the things I've learned have fused into a crystal universe spinning before me so that I can see all the facets of it reflected in gorgeous bursts of light...