Quotes About Mind

But that is not the approach of the evolutionary psychologists, who argue that we can best understand our states of mind if we identify their evolutionary origins, and the contribution that they (or some earlier version of them) might have made to the reproductive strategies of our genes.

Let there be an end to thought. Thus do I refute Descartes.' I sprawled, not a cogito or a sum to my name.

Predosje?aji su se igrali lovice u dubinama moga uma, ali niti jedan od njih nije mi se svi?ao dovoljno da bih ga poveo na ru?ak.

Spavati, možda i sanjati...

Somewhere there must be a gap in the icy blue logic that surrounds me, against which I hurl my mind, my cries, my bitter laughter.

The mind is a funny place. I do not even trust my own.

Make up your mind, yaar, choose one thing.' 'How can I? I'm just a human being,' he replied

All this means in fact that one believes oneself to have such sureness of intelligence that acknowledging an inability to understand calls in question the clarity of the author and not that of one's own mind.

he was an unusually sober and purposeful young man. In countless letters in later years, he advised young relatives that adolescence was a risky time when evil influences lurked nearby, ready to pounce: "You are now extending into that stage of life when good or bad habits are formed. When the mind will be turned to things useful and praiseworthy or to dissipation and vice.

As his body aged, his mind grew younger and more buoyant.

The final exercise (according to documents obtained by WikiLeaks—Haggis refused to talk about it) was "Go out to a park, train station or other busy area. Practice placing an intention into individuals until you can successfully and easily place an intention into or on a Being and/or a body.

She confided to Eltringham that she wanted to kill herself in order to stop the suppressive body thetans from taking over her mind.

shapes thinking, creating mental habits, which can

She closed her eyes and opened them a moment later, like she was erasing the conversation from her memory.

Being ex-military is like being a lapsed Catholic. Even though they're way in the back of your mind, the old rituals still exert a powerful pull.

He's smarter than me. I get things done better. He's more cerebral, I'm more physical.

is worry's sly assassin.

Don't fear occasional ghosts. Every day my mind suggests two or three impossible things.

Train your body to act confidently so your mind follows suit. This is what the experts recommend. It's a lot easier to whip your body into shape than your brain. You know all the basic stuff: Stand tall, look people in the eye, smile and speak up. Start practising your CONFIDENCE BOOSTERs on the least intimidating people. Work your way up to the most difficult.

Studies show mental rehearsal helps weekend athletes sharpen their golf, their tennis, their running, whatever their favourite activity. Experts agree if you see the pictures, hear the sounds, and feel the movements of your body in your mind before you do the activity, the effect is powerful.

Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.

Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts. -Leo Rosten

Everyone, in some small secret sanctuary of the self, is nuts.

The Athenian cannot refute the atheists before he has stated their assertions. It appears that they assert that body is prior to soul or mind, or that soul or mind is derivative from body and, consequently, that nothing is by nature just or unjust, or that all right originates in convention. The refutation of them consists in the proof that soul is prior to body, which proof implies that there is natural right.