The Mind Quotes

The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then the mind is tranquil once more.

I don't mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.

I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.

What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind.

Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.

I think sometimes there are negative connotations for those who have a business mind as well as a creative side.

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.

Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.

Look to see the best in everyone - especially in those who refuse to do the same. Perhaps your kindness will break someone's shell or be a catalyst to change their mind.

I am for reformation by emigration. The emigration of the mind before the revolution of the state. The soul and mind must be free before one has a right to be a member of a free government.

I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine.

Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.

We can only learn so much about our minds, because we are using our minds to do so.

I want people to help me reanchor the church to undeniable, mind-boggling, culture-shifting demonstration of compassion and generosity. Because, generosity was the hallmark of the early church.

the chocolate raisins tasted somewhat fishy, but Lucy didn't care-chocolate was chocolate. She changed her mind however, when she realized that the raisins were tiny fish heads.

Modeling is an incredible job for a girl if she approaches it with her head on her shoulders. You travel, you speak to people, and it opens your mind to different things.

It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

When my husband Jonas and I started Auntie Annes in 1988, we never expected or anticipated building an international pretzel franchise. It was the farthest thing from our minds.

Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there.

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.

Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.

Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

There is not always 'two sides to every issue.' That statement is a ridiculous slogan invoked by vested interests and perpetuated by minds of limited scope.

I haven't acquired a taste for green tea, and I don't intend to. I like my coffee black with a little sugar, and it keeps my metabolism up! I don't mind the occasional Gatorade while I'm gymming.

The main problem is to free your mind when you play. I find that in my own playing, whenever I feel any kind of tension, I'm restricted to playing the most fundamental kinds of things.

Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.

Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness.

Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Deadlines concentrate the mind. But deadlines should not be dogmas.

You manufacture beauty with your mind

The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.

Regimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine dialogue.

A free mind and a free market are corollaries.

An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.

Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body

Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.

When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul

After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.

In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.

Whenever you do what you really love, your heart lifts, your mind opens, and everything changes. You wake up. That's what true adventure really is.

I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.

The heart has its reasons; it's the mind that's suspect.