Quotes About Mind

He called dreams a 'royal road' into the unconscious, made up of all forbidden wishes you had and you wished you didn't

It seemed to him that if you planted the seed of doubt in people's minds, they were more likely to take a look at new growth and yank it out by its roots as a potential weed, when it could very well have turned into something as harmless as a daisy.

that allows us to have compassion for strangers. Yes, the Nazis made Jews the scapegoats, to the point of near extinction. But that same bit of tissue in the mind is what led others to send money and supplies and relief, even when they were half a world away.

Prisiminimai n?ra kapitalas, kur? turi vis? gyvenim?.Tai - tam tikra atminties kiekyb?,sukaupiama,sužadinama ir išstumiama ? s?mon?.

In my mind, Asperger's isn't a label to describe the traits Jacob has, but rather the ones he lost.

And afterward, when the leaves turned and the snow came, every now and then I would rise in everyone's minds like a tide.

There have been too many moments in my life when I've nearly gone off the rails, more overwhelmed by emotion than tempered by reason.

A story danced in his head as he walked through the dried buffalo grass of winter. The stiff stalks made a swishing sound, like a brush lightly moving over a drum. His imagination was all the escape he needed most days. He was leaving his world, his reality, his home, if only for an hour. If only in his mind.

The brain isn't very much like a computer, although it doesn't do a bad job, considering that it's built by unskilled labor and programmed more by pure chance than anything else.

For example, if you are fearful your mind will freeze, motion will be stopped and you will be defeated. If your mind is fixed on victory or defeating your opponent, you will be unable to function automatically.

The mind is like a fertile garden," Bruce said. "It will grow anything you wish to plant—beautiful flowers or weeds. And so it is with successful, healthy thoughts or with negative ones that will, like weeds, strangle and crowd the others. Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.

Always remember: in life as well as on the mat an unfocused or 'loose' mind wastes energy.

I can defeat you physically with or without a reason. But I can only defeat your mind with a reason. —JIM LAU

The world of evil is only as evil as we allow it to be.

El universo físico es una materialización de mis pensamientos.

The conferring and comparing of Scriptures is an excellent means of coming to an acquaintance with the mind and will of God in them. —JOHN OWEN

This levelling down and democratization of men's fashions is far from unimportant. The whole transformation of mind and society since the French Revolution is expressed in it.

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.

We ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the universe. The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the skies so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies here. [ Epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died ]

The treasures hidden in the heavens are so rich that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

Sky-bound was the mind, Earth-bound the body rests

If there is anything that can bind the mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with our fate so that one can enjoy living,—then it is verily the enjoyment of the mathematical sciences and astronomy.

before the origin of things, geometry was coeternal with the Divine Mind