Quotes About Mind

Thunder explodes over their heads and Sarah sees the silver sheet of water pouring down outside the broken barn door, Cowboy slumped against the wall with a rueful smile, the buttons in his head reflecting the lightning in blue-white pattern, silver and turquoise, like eyes gazing inward, into his head. Sarah feels a sweep of sadness for Cowboy, the dispossessed panzerboy, his boots leaving tracks in the dust above which he once flew with his mind flicking at the speed of light.

Aristide collected memories, stringing lines of poetry like pearls on a cord.  When he called the lines to his mind, a host of memories accompanied them.  Memories which he otherwise might have lost.

Terror skittered around the fringes of his consciousness on fast rodent feet.

If you wish to find the unclouded truth, he told himself, do not concern yourself with right or wrong. Conflicts with right and wrong are a sickness of the mind. The

The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority.

Those who loved with all their heart and mind and might have always thought of death, and those who knew the endless nights of harrowing concern for others have longed for it. The life I want is a life I could not endure in eternity. It is a life of love and intensity, suffering and creation, that makes life worthwhile and death welcome. There is no other life I should prefer. Neither should I like not to die." (The Faith of a Heretic)

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

My thoughts are my company I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Products are made in the factory, but brands are created in the mind.

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly real. They come, we imagine, directly to us without human meddling, and they are the most effortless food for the mind conceivable. Any description in words, or even any inert picture exists in the mind. But on the screen the whole process of observing, describing, reporting, and then imagining, has been accomplished for you.

All useful history is antiseptic in this fashion. It enables us to know what fairy tale, what school book, what tradition, what novel, play, picture, phrase, planted one preconception in this mind, another in that mind.

The practice of reflective meditation, which consists of holding certain ideas in the mind long enough to enable them to form emotional connections, tends to break up the crust of habit and to create a new will.

Why not ask yourself whether your other dreams are real? You go on trips and undergo the strangest experiences every night. How do you know they only take place in your mind?

Es kommt nicht darauf an, was auf der Bühne geschieht. Sondern darauf, was das Unsichtbare Theater in deinem Kopf veranstaltet.

Die Hitze entschlackt den Körper. Wenn du eine Weile in die Lava gestarrt hast, verwandelt sich dein gehirn in eine breiige Masse. Und du denkst an gar nichts mehr. Das empfinden wir als Erholung von unseren geistigen Aktivitäten.

Ich hatte nicht den Verstand verloren! Mein Hirn wurde nicht in zwei Hälften gerissen. Ich würde mein weiteres Leben nicht in einer Zelle mit sehr weichen Wänden verbringen müssen. Das war soweit erfreulich.

Es ist uns ein bißchen peinlich", sagte Golgo, "daß etwas so Hochgeistiges wie Lesen bei uns mit etwas so Profanen wie Verdauung einhergeht. Aber so ist das nun mal. Wir ernähren uns vom Leben!

Mein Gedächtnis funktioniert wie ein Spinnennetz. Die unwichtigen Dinge - wie etwa den Wind - läßt es durch, aber die gefangenen Fliegen bleiben hängen und werden so lange gelagert, bis die Spinne Verstand sie benötigt und tilgt" (S. 398).

Sich daran zu erinnern, wo das Erinnerungsvermögen liegt, das kann einem auch nur in einem cerebralen Cortex passieren.

The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.

Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all slaves to gravity and morality and the vicissitudes of nature. Our genes govern us much more than we'd like to think. Our bodies can not know absolute freedom but our minds can, can at least try.

No obstante, e independientemente de las variaciones posibles, lo que define un tipo específico de mente es el estilo cognitivo o el modo/tendencia relativamente estable de procesar la información de una manera específica.

Tu mente genera teorías y modelos de todo lo que la rodea, e incluso de ti mismo. Si tu teoría es constructiva, servirá a tu crecimiento, y si es destructiva alimentará negativamente el autoesquema: pensarás, sentirás y actuarás a favor de la visión enfermiza y distorsionada de lo que eres. Te destruirías poco a poco.

Una mente indefinida y apática es una mente voluble y despersonalizada, que no es capaz de reconocerse a sí misma. Es líquida: se escapa, se derrama, toma la forma del recipiente que la contiene o permanece indefinida e inconsistente. Vaciada de toda idea, la mente líquida le coquetea al nihilismo, no fija posición ni se compromete.