Quotes About Mind

Coincidence is just the word we use when we have not yet discovered the cause. . . . It's an illusion of the human mind, a way of saying, 'I don't know why this happened this way, and I have no intention of finding out.

Toxic words corrupt and defile the mind. There are words of suspicion, words of bitterness, and words of death.

Unsettle the mind; destroy the balance. Destroy the balance; obliterate the man.

The mind wanders and the mouth, it seems, is more than willing to follow.

We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

Dr. Wyman preached a God I couldn't quite see in my mind, and certainly couldn't love. I dimly pictured some kind of Grandfather, who dealt out to bad people their awful "just deserts," which I thought must be poisoned food at the end of delicious meals.

His memory, like the world's, was getting spotty.

The idea that humiliation is some capital crime of the spirit is a fiction. The sentences we hand down for losing control and succumbing to physical limits in life are arbitrary acts of self-loathing. All human beings have bodies that define their existence and which can veto the best-laid plans of the mind and soul.

suggestion of some cognitive scientists that there is no unified self at the core of each individual; the self is just a byproduct of the interaction of a host of cognitive functions.

To me the ideal film - which I've never succeeded in making - would be as though the reel were behind one's eyes and you were projecting it yourself, seeing what you wish to see. This has a great deal in common with thought processes ... That's why I think the camera is an eye as well as a mind. Everything we do with the camera has physiological and mental significance.

Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

Emotions are fevers of the mind.

addition to priming our state of mind, exercise influences learning directly, at the cellular level, improving the brain's potential to log in and process new information.

exercise provides an unparalleled stimulus, creating an environment in which the brain is ready, willing, and able to learn.

The Zen Buddhists have another way of saying pretty much the same thing: meditation is not something you think about; meditation is something you do. Same with well-being. No matter what ails you, you are not going to think your way out of it or read your way out of it. Living well is something you do. So then it's not something we

Exercise Is Medicine," so

One of the prominent features of exercise, which is sometimes not appreciated in studies, is an improvement in the rate of learning

like every other aspect of our psychology, motivation is biological.

we sometimes lose sight of the fact that the mind, brain, and body all influence one another. In addition to feeling good when you exercise, you feel good about yourself

the message I want to leave you with is that even as your body changes, exercise will keep your mind firm and taught.

The mind is a dynamo in the dark, an engine endlessly running, powering nothing. It thrashes in the night, seeking daylight, inventing its own.

He thought of nothing but the ardent, open warmth of this singular and passionate young woman who inspired him to love with all of his body and mind.