Quotes About Mind

The only real measure of the effectiveness of my teaching is what happens in the mind of the person learning.

With this life I give you compassion," Pinestar murmured. "Judge as much with your heart as with your mind.

Leafpool stood outside the barrier of thorns and closed her eyes. Three tiny shapes filled her mind, three pairs of eyes—amber, green and blue—glowed from the shadows.

Your body doesn't carry you up there. Your mind does. Your body is exhausted hours before you reach the top; it is only through will and focus and drive that you continue to move. If you lose that focus, your body is a dead, worthless thing beneath you.

I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.

The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain.

Could I really be so childish that my brain would be fooled by the smaller plate? Yes, I could.

Of all battles, there are none like the unrecorded battles of the soul.

Faith means a sanctified imagination, or the imagination applied to spiritual things.

The mind has no kitchen to do its dirty work in while the parlor remains clean.

Fear secretes acids.

Not to fear where there is occasion, is as great a weakness as to fear unduly, without reason.... Fear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger.

Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.

Why are we quarreling about a tie? flashed through her mind; at the same time, as if propelled by a force outside of herself, she tore it from his hand and flung it furiously into the wastebasket.

Many of us, her mind repeated, walking with vague symptoms, breathing fear. So many of us who, through love, have a stake in life.

Its funny how silly things just pop into your mind when you're under pressure.

inner conflicts that kept him

Lethal Predators: Psychopathic, Sadistic, and Sane" in Profilers: Leading Investigators Take You inside the Criminal Mind, 2004.

It is always in a time when one's attention is at the sharpest strain, when innumerable details are separately and clearly grasped by the mind, and, in a word, when the external circumstance of life is most real to us that the comic contrast between ourselves and the greatness outside us can best be appreciated.

A person who studies the universe will enlarge his mind and hatred will become picayune, stupid, impossible. Did you enjoy the book we sent to you?" "I tore it up," Tom said, and not trying to hide his shame, looked straight at Arthur.

I left in a hurry before he could change his mind, but I want to make it clear that at no point did I break into a skip

I woke in the hour before dawn, stuck in that strange state where the memory of your dreams is still powerful enough to motivate your actions.

You do magic by learning formae which are like shapes in your mind that have an effect on the physical universe.

The most arduous part of learning is preparing the mind to accept new knowledge.