Mind famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Deadlines concentrate the mind. But deadlines should not be dogmas.
-- Ashraf Ghani -
I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.
-- Astrid Lindgren -
Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the heart purer, the body sanctified, and raises man to the throne of God.
-- Athenaeus -
Avoid places that disturb your mind, and always remain where your virtues increase.
-- Atisa -
When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.
-- Atom Egoyan -
But my message to people with or without a condition is the fact that you can still do anything you set your mind to. You just have to do it in a slightly different way than other people.
-- Atticus Shaffer -
Some things tend not to work so well for science - things that rely on substantial written contributions by key experts are a case in point - but even there I tend to keep an open mind, because it may just be a case of finding the right formula.
-- Aubrey de Grey -
I wouldnt mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly dont want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.
-- Audrey Tautou -
The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.
-- August Strindberg -
Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.
-- August Wilhelm von Schlegel -
The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
-- Auguste Comte -
I suppose home is, for me, more of a state of mind. It's really more of about being where I want to be with people I care about.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
God, I felt certain, did not mind that I didn’t press my hands together to pray. I was casual, but I was sincere. I knew that God existed as the Correct Answer inside my chest.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.
-- Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne -
The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.
-- Augustus -
I end with a word on the new symbols which I have employed. Most writers on logic strongly object to all symbols. ... I should advise the reader not to make up his mind on this point until he has well weighed two facts which nobody disputes, both separately and in connexion. First, logic is the only science which has made no progress since the revival of letters; secondly, logic is the only science which has produced no growth of symbols.
-- Augustus De Morgan -
There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.
-- Augustus Hare -
The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.
-- Augustus William Hare -
Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.
-- Augustus William Hare -
Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.
-- Augustus William Hare -
I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
Regimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine dialogue.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
Souls (or minds) are thought of as purely non-physical, they can't be weighed, split in half, heated or cooled, they lack mass, electric charge and so on...but how could they possibly have a cause and effect relationship with bodies that are said to have these, and only these physical properties?
-- Austin Dacey -
The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love.
-- Austin Kleon -
Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. You are still in great company.
-- Austin Osman Spare -
A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose.
-- Avi -
A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own.
-- Avi -
If I hadn't had Freddie Mercury's lyrics to hold on to as a kid I don't know where I would be. It taught me about all forms of music... it would open my mind. I never really had a bigger teacher in my whole life.
-- Axl Rose -
By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set up a static tyranny. The Prophet Muhammad attempted to legislate every aspect of life. By adhering to his rules of what is permitted and what is forbidden, we Muslims supressed the freedom to think for ourselves and to act as we chose. We froze the moral outlook of billions of people into the mind-set of the Arab desert in the seventh century. We were not just servants of Allah, we were slaves.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul.
-- Ayi Kwei Armah -
We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.
-- Ayn Rand -
If any part of your uncertainty, is a conflict between your heart and your mind - follow your mind.
-- Ayn Rand -
The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any consideration whatsoever. It demands total independence in function and in motive.
-- Ayn Rand -
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
-- Ayn Rand -
Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.
-- Ayn Rand -
John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains—and he withdrew his fire—until the day when men withdraw their vultures.
-- Ayn Rand -
Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective or racial achievement. There are only individual minds and individual achievements-an d a culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
-- Ayn Rand -
And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.
-- Ayrton Senna -
If the whole universe can be found in our own body and mind, this is where we need to make our inquires. We all have the answers within ourselves, we just have not got in touch with them yet. The potential of finding the truth within requires faith in ourselves.
-- Ayya Khema -
Mindfulness is not just a word or a discourse by the Buddha, but a meaningful state of mind. It means we have to be here now, in this very moment, and we have to know what is happening internally and externally. It means being alert to our motives and learning to change unwholesome thoughts and emotions into wholesome ones Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.
-- Ayya Khema -
I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.
-- Azar Nafisi -
The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality.
-- Azar Nafisi -
Success is achieved twice. Once in the mind and the second time in the real world.
-- Azim Premji -
Always bear in mind that our own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." - Abraham Lincoln6/26"One must have strategies to execute dreams.
-- Azim Premji -
I always have my setlist planned out, but the best moments are when the energy of the crowd just gets your mind working and you are able to come up with new tags for jokes and just riff off things in the room.
-- Aziz Ansari -
My obsession is to make women beautiful. When you create with that in mind, things can't go out of fashion.
-- Azzedine Alaia -
When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
-- B. B. King -
I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.
-- B. B. King -
It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.
-- B. F. Skinner -
A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.
-- B. F. Skinner -
The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart -
The effect to be sought is the dislocation of the opponent's mind and dispositions - such an effect is the true gauge of an indirect approach.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart -
Make your decision for what is right not expedient, and wash your mind of all compromise.
-- B. J. Palmer -
Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man. One whose mind is not free though alive, is no better than dead. Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.
-- B. R. Ambedkar -
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
-- B. R. Ambedkar -
Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence
-- B. R. Ambedkar -
It's not a certain technique, it's not a skillit's all in your mind, it's how far you want to go
-- B.J. Penn -
When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
In forward bends, one uses the outer mind while in backbends the outer mind is silenced and the inner mind is made to work.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
First yoga deals with health, strength and conquest of the body. Next, it lifts the veil of difference between the body and the mind. Lastly, it leads the Sadhaka to peace and unalloyed purity.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
The mind is the king of the senses, and the breath is the king of the mind
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind, and spirit.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. Â When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.
-- Babyface -
This is a really difficult question. Although I once thought that a dream and an accomplishment are the same thing, I've now changed my mind. A dream is not something you can just reach out to, so I've come to the conclusion that one can only achieve their dream by accomplishing something little by little.
-- Bae Yong-joon -
It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person's mind.
-- Banana Yoshimoto -
It didn't matter whether he was nearby or far away. His image would drift up into your mind just when you least expected it, shocking you, making your chest pound. Making your heart ache.
-- Banana Yoshimoto -
An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment. This enlightened awareness is truly unborn and marvellously illuminating; and everything is perfectly managed by it. Conclusively realise that what is unborn and illuminating is truly awakened and without effort, rest naturally as the Unborn Mind. Resting in this way, you are a living Buddha.
-- Bankei Yotaku -
You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
-- Banksy
