Quotes About Mind

The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

Cool under pressure can be misinterpreted. I'm fired up, but in my mind, I'm calm. Here comes the next play, hurry up, let's go.

It's misleading to essentialize an entire society as if it were a single mind.

In France, where Franklin had lived from 1776 to 1785, he had won an extraordinary place in the public mind. The French had lionized him to the point of absurdity - or so at least his colleagues in the American mission thought.

I have OCD mixed with ADD; you try living with that.

I've had moments where it's like being in the Matrix.

You have to fight the green monster with your mind, not your fists.

Everyone carries around his own monsters.

We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.

The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.

I always say: a run in the morning is like eating a fruit a day - it chases he doctor away. It is good for your mind.

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

My brain, I believe, is the most beautiful part of my body.

The mind is crazy thing. To be focused is the most difficult thing.

I enjoy the pain my body goes through. If you're in a hard moment in a fight, there's a lot of things go through your mind. But the most important thing to me is family.

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.

If my spirit is down, then so are the physical and mental levels. That's always been the case. When I'm motivated, my body feels great and I'm ready and excited to go. When I get burned out, I feel it in all three categories - mind, body and spirit. I'm aware and in touch with all three categories.

Whether it's soundtracking a moment in my life or just motivating me to hit the gym, I constantly have music playing. Even if it's just in my head.

In idling, the motor's running, but you're letting your mind take in anything. Things pop into it. Those are the gifts of subterranean conscious.

All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of the mind.