Quotes About Mind

The only thing you sometimes have control over is your perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

You don't need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is.

What we are describing is a mindset change from "doing my job" to "doing the job." It is also a change in focus from "what we are doing" (work) to what is getting done (results).

Conveniently then he can forget it all exists. And, after a time only a general notion will remain in his mind, that there are places where he doesn't belong, and those where he seems to fall right in.

His body and mind seemed fueled by the arcane energy burning inside his flesh, and the only time he ever felt tired was when he had gone too long between killings.

Indem wir die Gegenwart gewahr werden, ist sie schon vorüber, das Bewußtsein des Genusses liegt immer in der Erinnerung.

Was man sich lange und oft genug denkt, verliert allen Schrecken. Gedanken nutzen sich ab wie Münzen, die von Hand zu Hand gehn, oder wie Vorstellungen, die man sich immer wieder vors innere Auge ruft.

Although she was a logical, practical person, she believed that in books there existed a kind of magic. Between the aging covers on these shelves, contained in tiny, abstract black marks on sheets of paper, were voices from the past. Voices that reached into the future, into Claire's own heart and mind, to tell her what they knew, what they'd learned, what they'd seen, what they'd felt. Wasn't that magic?

Every mental process, or every mental action, that takes place in our wide-awake consciousness will, if it has depth of feeling or intensity, enter the unconscious field, and after it has developed itself according to the line of its original nature, will return to the conscious side of the mind.

The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.

Every faculty that naturally belongs to the human mind is latent in every mind, and it can be awakened and developed, provided the proper laws are faithfully applied.

The power of thought is not a compelling force. It is a building force, and it is only when used in the latter sense that desirable results can be produced.

You can lead mankind into the gold mines of the mind and into the diamond fields of the soul, and the secret lies in the words you speak.

A change of scene will not produce a change of thought in the master mind unless he so elects.

the law is this: That everything entering subjective consciousness will impress itself there and become a pattern for the creative energies of the mind. These energies will proceed to create thoughts and conditions just like the impression formed, which will carry their own conditions to every part of the human system.

As many suffer from too much as too little. A fat body makes a lean mind.

This mind of ours, like the earth beneath our feet, teems with exhaustless riches. The conditions of development only are needed.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Your thoughts and beliefs are the single most important indicator of your state of health.

The reality is that our bodies are not separate from our thoughts or emotions.

And in the brain, neurons that fire together quite literally wire together.

And now for some really unexpected news out of that study: autopsies showed that the nuns who relished life and showed no signs of dementia had just as many plaques in their brains as the less vivacious nuns whose dementia was apparent before they died. Please reread that last sentence. It is proof that a healthy mind and spirit can exist in a body that is less than perfect. That is the power of an ageless attitude.

How easily the mind can be turned to hate from a place of fear.

I ... am left with the lingering feeling that the places we go in our minds to find comfort have little to do with where our bodies go.