Quotes About Mind

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Cybersecurity whitepaper authors have it all wrong! It's about weaponizing the mind of the reader so that when they're done reading the document, you've memetically drilled home actionable concepts that will expediently impact their cyber defense.

Ransomware is not only about weaponizing encryption, its more about bridging the fractures in the mind with a weaponized message that demands a response from the victim.

The narrative illusion introduces a "mind virus", which is a syntactical contagion that spreads through communicative vectors and colonizes the cognitive biases of the targeted individual's psychology, thus transforming the mental processes of that target.

The weaponized meme, when properly introduced and reinforced, will parasitically weave its way throughout the labyrinth of the mind and attach itself to the subconscious, thus effecting the root of the thought of the recipient.

transform yourself by the renewing of your mind. When you believe differently, you act differently and start to get different results.

This is the outer surface of the brain where much of our thinking is done. Unfolded, this surface layer would cover the area of a football field

Having gray hair doesn't matter but having gray matter matters.

cloudbursts of memory and hallucination crashing in on me from all sides

Una mente perspicaz siempre acaba descubriendo la razón. ¿Pero la suerte? Es invisible, caótica, angelical.

For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive

Nothing is lonelier or more disorienting than insomnia

But how can you stand to stay asleep so much?" Harriet had once asked her sister curiously. Allison shrugged. "Isn't it boring?" "I only get bored when I'm awake.

Somewhere, Bunny had heard that John Donne had been acquainted with Izaak Walton, and in some dim corridor of his mind this friendship grew larger and larger, until in his mind the two men were practically interchangeable.

When you're worried about something," said Henry abruptly, "have you ever tried thinking in a different language?

For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days.

between 'reality' on the one hand, and the point where the mind strikes reality, there's a middle zone, a rainbow edge where beauty comes into being, where two very different surfaces mingle and blur to provide what life does not: and this is the space where all art exists, and all magic.

I supposed that when anyone accustomed to working with the mind is faced with a straightforward action, there's a tendency to embellish, to make it overly clever. On paper there's a certain symmetry. Now that I'm faced with the prospect of executing it I realize how hideously complicated it is.

If we're not at peace, we are in an ego state.

report that Tad was better eased Lincoln's mind

Fueled by his resilience, conviction, and strength of will, Lincoln gradually recovered from his depression. He understood, he told Speed later, that in times of anxiety it is critical to "avoid being idle," that "business and conversation of friends" were necessary to give the mind "rest from that intensity of thought, which will some times wear the sweetest idea threadbare and turn it to the bitterness of death.

While Abraham, gifted with physical agility and uncommon athletic prowess, had to make his mind, Teedie, privileged beyond measure with resources to develop his mind, had to make his body.

In the age-old debate about whether leadership traits are innate or developed, memory—the ease and capacity with which the mind stores information—is generally considered an inborn trait.