Quotes About Mind

Students of Seido karate make a commitment to train as hard as they can to develop mind, body and spirit into harmony and balance.

Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind.

During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to stay calm and keep myself occupied. I spent hours working out how to break free. But trying to escape would have been instant suicide.

When we let ourselves see only what we expect to see," Genji said, "we view the contents of our own minds and miss what is truly before us.

It is the very mind itself That leads the mind astray; Of the mind, Do not be mindless.

If the mind congeals in one place and remains with one thing, it is like frozen water and is unable to be used freely: ice that can wash neither hands nor feet. When the mind is melted and is used like water, extending throughout the body, it can be sent wherever one wants to send it.

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

In their rooms, some guests read or made love, but most of them slept, blissfully unaware of the fact that their innkeepers were losing their minds.

Historians and critics too often overlook the state of mind of the commanders in judging a military or naval action.

My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind

I had, of course, sworn never to let the place cross my mind again; but human beings can't help being curious, I suppose, as long as the knowledge doesn't come at too high a price.

That's why we have rules to begin with, Richie: because you can't trust your mind to tell you what's right and wrong.

Most people have no reason to know how memory can turn rogue and feral, becoming a force of its own and one to be reckoned with.

If a guy's whole head is in reality, then reality is the only route we can take to get to him. If he's letting his mind prance off down dozens of twisty hypothetical fairy tales, every one of those is a crack we can use to prize him open.

Here's one of the more disturbing things about working Murder: how little you think about the person who's been killed. There are some who move into your mind—children, battered pensioners, girls who went clubbing in their sparkly hopeful best and ended the night in bog drains—but mostly the victim is only your starting point; the gold at the end of the rainbow is the killer.

Plenty of people have told me—and several of them even meant it as a compliment—that I have a God-given talent for fucking with people's minds; and what you can do to strangers is nothing compared to what you can do to your very own family.

The idea bent my brain.

Vicky always did have that kind of mind: since there was basically no activity going on inside her head, conversations went in there and came back out virtually untouched.

In Cal's view, morals involve something more than terminology. Ben damn near lost his mind over the importance of using the proper terms for people in wheelchairs, and he clearly felt pretty proud of himself for doing that, but he didn't mention ever doing anything useful for one single person in one single wheelchair, and Cal would bet a year's pension that the little twerp would have brought it up if he had.

his memory was banjaxed,

I loved Rosie's mind. If I could have got inside there, I would happily have spent the rest of my life wandering around, just looking.

Your inner reality shapes your outer one, every day of your life.

didn't look at her again—probably to avoid the permanent look of resentment now etched upon her face, a look Zoe tried impossibly to hide. That morning, however, as he tossed the briefcase into the backseat of his car, what it might contain, or how much he'd spent for the damned thing, was the furthest thing from Zoe's mind. The instant he was out of the driveway,

Empty words show an empty mind, and silence speaks most eloquently of all.