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Quotes About Mind

Matt. Then Matthew who had been sick, asked her, Why for the most part Physick should be bitter to our palates? Prud. To shew how unwelcome the Word of God and the effects thereof are to a Carnal Heart. Matt. Why does Physick, if it does good, purge, and cause that we vomit? Prud. To shew that the Word, when it works effectually, cleanseth the Heart and Mind. For look, what the one doth to the Body the other doth to the Soul.
~ John Bunyan
Let the Most Blessed be my guide, if it be His will, Unto His gate, into His fold, and up to His holy hill. And let Him never allow me to turn aside or veer, From his free grace and holy ways, whatever I suffer. And let Him gather those of mine whom I have left behind; Lord, please make them be thine, with all their heart and mind.
~ John Bunyan
I find that men as high as trees will write, dialogue-wise yet no man doth them slight. For writing so: Indeed if they abuse, truth, cursed be they, and the craft they use. To that intent; but yet let truth be free, to make her salleys upon Thee, and Me. Which way it pleases God: For who knows how, Better than he that taught us first to Plough. To guide our Mind and Pens for his Design? And he makes base things usher in Divine.
~ John Bunyan
Now, if a good man cannot do good things with that oneness and universalness of mind, as a wicked man doth sin with, then is his sin heavier to weigh him down to hell than is his righteousness to buoy him up to the heavens.
~ John Bunyan
Must manage your thought life daily and then you can manage your life.
~ John C. Maxwell
Your attitude is like the minds paintbrush. It can paint everything in bright, vibrant colors-creating a masterspiece.
~ John C. Maxwell
Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family background; they are measured by the size of their thinking.
~ John C. Maxwell
Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
~ John C. Maxwell
Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
~ John C. Maxwell
Your attitude colors every aspect of your life. It is like the mind's paintbrush.
~ John C. Maxwell
The more you engage in good thinking, the more good thoughts you will continue to think. As playwright Victor Hugo asserted, An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an invasion of ideas.
~ John C. Maxwell
Psychologist and philosopher James Allen states, "You cannot travel within and stand still without."2 Soon, what is happening within us will affect what is happening without. A hardened attitude is a dreaded disease. It causes a closed mind and a dark future. When the attitude is positive and conducive to growth, the mind expands, and the progress begins.
~ John C. Maxwell
Poet and novelist James Joyce said, "Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it." The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness. And middle leaders are usually the busiest people in an organization.
~ John C. Maxwell
On the card is this statement: "Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
~ John C. Maxwell
The thoughts in your mind will always be more important than the things in your life. Choose happiness.
~ John C. Maxwell
Understanding changes minds. Action changes lives.
~ John C. Maxwell
A dream is an inspiring picture of the future that energizes your mind, will, and emotions, empowering you to do everything you can to achieve it.
~ John C. Maxwell
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
~ John C. Maxwell
Pain has a funny way of focusing the mind. Only what hurts matters.
~ John C. Wright
Bu hayatta gerçekten unutman?n yolu o kadar nadir bulunuyor ki, diye düÅŸündü.
~ John Cheever
The greatest killer of creativity is interruption. It pulls your mind away from what you want to be thinking about. Research has shown that, after an interruption, it can take eight minutes for you to return to your previous state of consciousness, and up to twenty minutes to get back into a state of deep focus.
~ John Cleese
True, there was a vague assumption that doing so would bring me closer to God, but then who was God when he was at home? And why did he keep losing it with his chosen people, when he could easily have changed his mind, and picked a more co-operative bunch?
~ John Cleese
This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If you just keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.
~ John Cleese
Put simply, you can't ask your unconscious a question, and expect a direct answer—a neat, tidy little verbal message.
~ John Cleese