The Mind Quotes
As far as mental development is concerned, we should never be complacent. We can develop our minds infinitely - there is no limitation.
It is... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained.
My religion is kindness. A good mind, a good heart, warm feelings these are the most important things.
If you wonder what you were doing in the past, look at your body; to know what will happen to you in the future, look at your mind.
By setting our motivation strongly in the morning when our mind is fresh and clear, we are much more likely to remember it during the day and act with that intention
Contemplating the suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering.
We must work to resolve conflicts in a spirit of reconciliation and always keep in mind the interests of others. We cannot destroy our neighours! We cannot ignore their interests!
Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.
A mind wishing to benefit other people and other sentient beings is the very basis of peace and happiness.
The Laws of Reasoning consist of the ground, the path, and the result. ...Suffering is in the mind. How we perceive happiness determines our suffering or not.
We're good at noticing sudden movements of middle size objects in our immediate visual field, but what is out of sight is for us is largely out of mind.
Every medium - oral, written, print, and now electronic - has its own associated thought patterns and mind sets.
You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
Buddha had said: "Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.
In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.
Force a hand, the voice warned, and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally.
Live performances make music important. Recording is cool and fun, and it's nice to document the thing you made, but the goal in my mind is to perform.
Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing subsequent episodes.
Freedom from mental distraction equals power. Body mind masters eventually come to the realization that this and every moment, on or off the field, is the moment of truth.
...when you resist what happens, your mind begins to race; the same thoughts that impinge upon you are actually created by you.
Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.
When I near the end of a book, it feels as if the entire universe meets me more than halfway and supports me. The whole world seems to shimmer when I find the words. My mind quiets.
Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being able to think about that.
Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right.
I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen.
It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.
They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.
Never mind what my name is,” the man said. “No one can pronounce it anyway. Just call me Sir.
The mind is a vagrant thing.... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.
Exactly as we might ask God, and do ask God, to change our fate. The difference is that in the story the writer actually replies and in the end even changes his mind.
The mind is a strange and wonderful thing. I'm not sure it'll ever be able to figure itself out. Everything else maybe, from the atom to the universe, everything except itself.
Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.
I feel traveling certainly does broaden the mind. In my case certainly I feel more confident. It gives you a new perspective on the world.
When I left Iowa, I definitely never wanted to stand in front of a group of academics again and see if they approved of me. I made up my mind to take my work to the actual reading public.