Quotes About Mind

Either I want this world where there is so much stress and pressure or I want to live in a jungle where there is peace of mind, without any network or social media.

I didn't want to do media or appearances. You've got to do this and that, fly here to film something. I didn't want to cut into my time for that. You can't pay for your peace of mind and your sanity.

With affordable health care, women can have economic security and the peace of mind that they will not become a financial burden on their families.

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.

I don't practice many penalties! I don't mind taking them but don't really practice saving many.

I've never been attracted to sci-fi per se. People tell me I'm in a genre kind of movie, but it never crossed my mind that 'The Matrix' was genre.

I think more with my head - things are 90 per cent in your head, and everything else comes after that.

People don't even realize the power the mind has over the body in the way you perceive things. Change your thoughts, change your reality. Words are powerful - every thought and every word we think has an effect on the body.

Your brain has the power to modify your pain perception.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

A lot of magic is designed to appeal to people visually, but what I'm trying to affect is their minds, their moods, their perceptions.

You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

Even as one and the same person is called by different names according to the different functions he performs, so also one and the same mind is called by the different names: mind, intellect, memory, and egoity, on account of the difference in the modes - and not because of any real difference.

So much of performing is a mind game.

A beam of light takes about two million years to reach from us to the Andromeda nebula. But my thought covers this distance in a few seconds. Perhaps some day some intermediate form of body and mind may permit us to say that we actually can travel faster than light.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.

I think the mind has a way of getting to where it needs to get to. If you are persistent.

The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world.

When our ideas on any subject, material, intellectual, or social, undergo a thorough change in consequence of new observations, I call that movement of the mind revolution. If the ideas are simply extended or modified, there is only progress. Thus the system of Ptolemy was a step in astronomical progress, that of Copernicus was a revolution.

It is easier to judge the mind of a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No - not so that chance shall decide the affair while you're passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping.