Quotes About Mind

She'd never imagined it like this — when she'd thought of someone (a woman like herself ) losing her mind, she'd imagined shrieks and wails, hallucinations; but at that moment it had seemed clear that there was another way, far quieter; a way that was numb and hopeless, flat, so much so that an emotion as strong as sorrow would have been a relief.

The true mind can weather all the lies and illusions without being lost. The true heart can tough the poison of hatred without being harmed. Though darkness thrives in the void, it always yields to purifying light.

The machine does much of what we used to do. The machine thinks for us. The machine has become, instead of a tool, the replacement of our minds. Use it (our minds) or lose it has become a reality today. And, since we are less inclined to use it, we are most definitely losing it. Our power to think is being rapidly deteriorated.

LA PERSPECTIVA E-MYTH El conocimiento y la conciencia son similares en sus esferas respectivas. El uno se encuentra en el centro intelectual; la otra, en el centro emocional. El conocimiento es saber. La conciencia es sentir. MAURICE NICOLL Comentarios psicológicos

There are many kinds of delusion.

Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of it?

Ä°nsanlar kendilerini korkutan ÅŸeylere çok daha çabuk inan?yorlar. Bu da bir bilmece.

Sana ÅŸunu söyleyeyim Momo, hayatta en tehlikeli ÅŸey, gerçekleÅŸmiÅŸ hayallerdir. Hele benimki gibi olursa! Ar?k hayal edecek hiçbir ÅŸeyim kalmad?.

Sana ÅŸunu söyleyeyim Momo, hayatta en tehlikeli ÅŸey, gerçekleÅŸmiÅŸ hayallerdir.

duyduÄŸu nefret onu hasta ediyordu.

Have you noticed that it's enough just to close your eyes for a few minutes? he asked softly. When you open them again you are in another reality. Everything changes all the time.

She thinks that if she gives it up, she'll lose the great abilities she believes she's acquired. It's a terrible paradox really: the mind falls in love with psychosis. The evil seduction, I call it. (186)

I quickly learned that success in any area of life, be it in the boardroom or on the battlefield, is overwhelmingly dependant upon a person's mastery of their own mind. General Patton once said: "If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do...

The mental and physical — psyche and soma — are two faces of the same coin and cannot be separated. To train the world's greatest military and law enforcement warriors, we must realign our focus and esteem their minds every bit as much as we esteem their physical capabilities and skill sets. No longer can we simply train the way we fight and fight the way we train. We need to rethink the way we train and retrain the way we fight.

Happiness is not a state of mind but a way of being, "an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.

Confirmation bias," he'd heard this called. The human mind was just bad at seeing things it did not expect to see, and a bit too eager to see what it expected to see. "Confirmation bias is the most insidious because you don't even realize it is happening," he said. A scout would settle on an opinion about a player and then arrange the evidence to support that opinion. "The

After the war Avi, by then twenty-two years old, finally decided what he would study: psychology. Had you asked him just then why he picked psychology, "I would say I want to understand the human soul. Not the mind. The soul.

The trouble, Danny suspected, was that "the understanding of numbers is so weak that they don't communicate anything. Everyone feels that those probabilities are not real—that they are just something on somebody's mind.

He found a book called Human Error, by a British psychologist aptly named James Reason. "It was like reading the owner's manual of the human mind," he later recalled. "Not the usual owner's manual, but an owner's manual that pointed out all the peculiarities and idiosyncrasies of how we

I hated discussing ideas with investors," he said, "because I then become a Defender of the Idea, and that influences your thought process." Once you became an idea's defender you had a harder time changing your mind about it.

Los psicólogos de finales de los años cuarenta habían detectado, o afirmaban haber detectado, que la mente tenía la capacidad para defenderse de lo que en apariencia no quería percibir.

Maybe the mind's best trick of all was to lead its owner to a feeling of certainty about inherently uncertain things. Over

Daryl Morey] suggested a new definition of the nerd: a person who knows his mind well enough to mistrust it

It wasn't that what first came to mind was always wrong; it was that its existence in your mind led you to feel more certain than you should be that it was correct.