Quotes About Mind

through the act of reading my words, the patterns that form your thoughts become an imitation of the patterns that once formed mine. And in that way I live again, through you.

It is not that the turret clocks are running faster. What is happening is that our brains are running slower.

For me, thinking typically meant speaking in an internal voice; as we say in the trade, my thoughts were phonologically coded.

I will program my mind to forbid itself from moving beyond its own reprogramming range.

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And whether or not your brain is impelled by the air that once impelled mine, through the act of reading my words, the patterns that form your thoughts become an imitation of the patterns that once formed mine. And in that way I live again, through you.

As I contemplated this vista, I wondered where my body was. The conduits which displaced my vision and action around the room were in principle no different from those which connected my original eyes and hands to my brain. For the duration of this experiment, were these manipulators not essentially my hands? Were the magnifying lenses at the end of my periscope not essentially my eyes? I was an everted person, with my tiny, fragmented body situated at the center of my own distended brain.

Her concentration was gone, and last night she had had a nightmare about discovering a formalism that let her translate arbitrary concepts into mathematical expressions: then she had proven that life and death were equivalent. That was something that frightened her: the possibility that she was losing her mind. She was certainly losing her clarity of thought, and that came pretty close.

The hand's dexterity is the physical manifestation of the mind's ingenuity,

So you see, this debate isn't just about commercials and cosmetics, it's about determining what's the appropriate relationship between the mind and the body. Are we more fully realized when we minimize the physical part of our natures? And that, you have to agree, is a profound question.

wanted Tamera to value herself in terms of what she could do, both with her mind and with her body, not in terms of how decorative she was.

The pain was so deep and so raw. There were days I would have died just to forget. The problem was, I couldn't figure out how to get her out of my mind. How do you kill that kind of pain?

The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn something, you can never convince your mind that you didn't learn it. If you learn the world is round, you can never fit in with a world that thinks it's flat.

All our choices, decisions, intuitions, other mental events, and our actions are no more than effects of other equally necessitated events.

To be worth making at all, a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of objects and dimensions.

Since the heart and behavior are so closely linked, whatever modifies behavior inevitably trains the heart.

When I left Spain, I had it very clear in my mind that I would return one day.

I've got a short memory span.

My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac.

My attention span is very short.

I don't have the attention span for sports.

My attention span was not great.

I tell all my students, 'Learn how to code.' It's sort of like learning Spanish in third grade. When you're still young and you still have that sort of agile mind, that's when you should do it.

'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.