Quotes About Mind

To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.

This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

I wasn't really built for athleticism or speed, I always had to rely on my mind and my instincts.

The speed at which modern CPUs perform computations still blows my mind daily.

Not long ago, in response to a spell of insomnia, I learned some of the principles of meditation, to empty my mind piece by piece. It was like the old game of jacks - cautiously lifting each jack clear of its neighbor until only the empty background remained.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

I have many memories of my time with Planned Parenthood. I spent eight years of my life there. Some memories are good, some are not. But they are contained in my mind. It's easy to forget them.

Indian spices can find a place in any cuisine. It's just a matter of opening your mind and palate to new flavors.

That film 'Memento' creeped me out. I was looking over my back through the whole thing. I get more creeped out than scared and spill popcorn all over the place.

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless.

Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

True health infuses positive energy in the mind, body and spirit; it is a main focus in my life.

If you're an athlete and you completely focus on the body, you're missing other components. Similarly, if you're trying to broaden your mind but not also being attentive to your sense of humour and your spirit, then you're not going to grow and develop so fast.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

Nature, God, Buddha - someone has given me this health. I can break dance still; I can run; I can play basketball. In my mind, I can do anything. As long as I have that spirit, I'm going to keep doing it.

One of the things that I miss the most about cricket and batting in particular is that meditation of cricket, that involvement of myself - mind, body and spirit - to delivering that one specific process, which is to execute a cricket shot. It is a beautiful feeling; it is very hard to replicate.

The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.

I'm pretty spiritual; I believe a lot in the spirit of man.

I don't think my work is about the spiritual life, but it certainly touches on it.