Quotes About Mind

Might they one day reconstruct the ruins of the mind as well as those of the body?

Anyone can rejigger an atom bomb," said Hopkins. "But to possess the minds of millions? To make them your willing zombies across a whole decade? That's real magic.

It was in Central Park near the lake and I watched a weeping willow turn into a giant rooster and fly off. No tree remained. It glided beautifully into the sky, a big blue barnyard. My mind went with it, something all you bald head generals and wheelchair senators could never imagine.

The mind is the shadow of the light it seeks.

I think it was Socrates who said if you can't win a one-way argument, just pretend that you can read your opponent's mind.

Because the rest of us are evaluated more by what we do with our minds than with our bodies, we tend to discount the role that physical energy plays in performance. In most jobs, the physical body has been completely cut off from the performance equation. In reality, physical energy is the fundamental source of fuel, even if our work is almost completely sedentary.

Psychologists talk about the three parts of the mind: the cognitive (reason and other mental processes), the conative (the will), and the affective (feelings and emotions). All of these are involved in the choices we make, but the engine that drives the train is the affective power. The traditional word for it is "heart.

Drugs are a bet with the mind

Killer on the road / His brain is squirming like a toad.

Drugs are a bet with your mind.

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.

TWO PSYCHOLOGICAL CROWD MODELS Delusion Model

The Illusion Model

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

So how do we educate the heart? There are really only two ways: life experience and stories about life experience, which is called literature. Great preachers and teachers—Aesop, Socrates, Confucius, Moses, and Jesus—have traditionally used stories to get their lesson plans across, educating both the mind and the heart.

I know, I gotta go, I gotta go, and I got one last thing and I said it before, and I'm gonna say it again: Cancer can take away all my physical ability. It cannot touch my mind; it cannot touch my heart; and it cannot touch my soul. And those three things are going to carry on forever.

I don't trust my mind for everyday thinking, but I am convinced that it has one very great function, which is to eventually make me aware of astounding things.

It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read, I need protection from the things in my head . . .

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.—Buddha

Perhaps you don't see yourself in animation," he said with a smile. "It's true your features are quite ordinary, but they become lively when you talk and you have what are called 'speaking eyes.' They shine with the light of your quick mind.

Guarding one's thoughts always presented fewer challenges than guarding one's emotions.

Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.

We are all inside her head and nowhere else, and of such stuff as dreams are made of. Once she's gone where will we be?

Che uno deve a volte fingere di aver rabbia, ma rabbia proprio non si deve mai tollerare di averla. Perché, quando si nutre rabbia di qualcuno, è la stessa cosa che autorizzare quella medesima persona a venire a governare, durante tutto quel tempo, la nostra mente e il nostro sentire; e questo era mancanza di sovranità, e abbondante stupidaggine, e di fatto lo è.