Quotes About Mind

I tend to be very impatient, thinking about all the ways we can do something, my mind and hands spinning at a very fast rate.

If there is something to worry about, my mind has a tendency to worry about it. That can cut two ways. It can really keep you on the ball, but if you worry about every little thing, it's not a good use of time and energy.

I was brought up in great tenderness, and though my mind was proud to independence, I was never led to much independence of feeling.

I have considered the subject of missions nearly a year and have found my mind gradually tending to a deep conviction that it is my duty personally to engage in this service.

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes.

The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science.

The only way you can acquire anything is by writing a cheque. At the end of the day you're writing a personal cheque, which tends to concentrate the mind.

Everyone knows how to play tennis, but it's the mind that really controls everything.

If I weren't a tennis player, I'd probably be a psychologist.

The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.

Meditation helps you to learn about character and mind. It relieves you of the tension you have gone through.

As you do Pilates, use your breath to draw your mind into the present and whisk the tension out of your body.

The interesting thing about overthinking and procrastination is sometimes they can actually evolve into innovation and creativity in the short term. Letting an idea grow in your mind in the short term with a deadline and a plan can actually lead to innovation and creativity.

Short term memory is not good.

My mind doesn't work, my memories don't work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can't tell you it's always the truth.

The question now afloat in the world respecting 'things as they are' is the most interesting that can be presented to the human mind. While one party pleads for reformation and change, the other extols in the warmest terms the existing constitution of society.

I'm like a goldfish. My memory is terrible.

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

I was a terrible actor. The analytical part of my mind never quite let go.

The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.

I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

I feel terrific - my mind, my energy, my focus continues to be what it always has been, and I have a renewed sense of purpose.