Quotes About Mind

Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts

Each of us must live off the fruit of his thoughts in the future, because what you think today and tomorrow, next month and next year, you will mold your life and determine your future. You are guided by your mind.

Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.

You are what you think about.

One, you will become what you think about. Two, remember the word imagination. Let your mind soar. Three, courage. Concentrate on your goal everyday. Four, save 10 percent of what you earn and action. Ideas are worthless unless we act on them.

Everything that's really worthwhile in life came to us free — our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country.

Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

The steady and undissipated attention to one object is a sure mark of a superior genius; as hurry, bustle, and agitation are the never-failing symptoms of a weak and frivolous mind.

Akl?n?, böyle serbest b?rakt???nda, öyle b?rakacak zaman? buldu?unda, günlerden bir gün hiçbir ?ey günü oldu?unda, b?rakabilirsen yani akl?n? öylece, göreceksin ki gitmek istedi?i yere gidecek fikrin.

Humans are incapable of functioning and living together without a good story to bind them and keep a certain set of values intact. That's why the lack of a story in neoliberalism, the lack of meaning and cause, can be unbearable for the human mind.

Now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

I prefer to control my brain's dopamine reactions myself. Not be at the mercy of... butterflies.

Memories are treasures," he murmured. "Lock the best of them in your mind forever, the most splendid moments, and throw away the rest. Any day when you gain such a treasure is a day well-spent.

Although the fear was still in the back of my mind, I was beginning to realize that activity and interaction with the others was helping me to take each successive step in this process.

The discipline of prayer actually guards our hearts and minds in Christ.

Moreover, dissonance-evoking situations have been found to evoke a general negative affect without also evoking increased self-directed negative affect (Elliot & Devine, 1994) or decreased state self-esteem (E. Harmon-Jones, 2000a).

That is why the dissonance-reduction process may result in greater inconsistency among other cognitions. Therefore, the reduction of the ratio, which for us remains the unconditional objective of the dissonance-reduction process, in no way implies that there is consistency among the cognitions that it contains.

The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

but it wiggled around the back of his mind like a melody that you hummed without thinking.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity

Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.