Mind Quotes
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"I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get?"
Quote by -Buzz Aldrin
"What I really hated, of course, was my mind. There must have been an off switch somewhere, but I was damned if I could find it."
Quote by -David Sedaris
"But I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment."
Quote by -David Sedaris
"It is funny the things that run through your mind when you're sitting in your underpants in front of a pair of strangers."
Quote by -David Sedaris
"On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind."
Quote by -David Sedaris
“I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“Het is niet normaal om te weten wat we willen. Dat is een enorme en uitzonderlijke psychologische prestatie.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“In ease of body and peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon the same level, and the beggar who suns himself by the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“Men are much more likely to discover easier and readier methods of attaining any object, when the whole attention of their minds is directed towards that single object, than when it is dissipated among a great variety of things.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“Great labour, either of mind or body, continued for several days together is, in most men, naturally followed by a great desire of relaxation, which, if not restrained by force, or by some strong necessity, is almost irresistible.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“Great labour, either of mind or body, continued for several days together is, in most men, naturally followed by a great desire of relaxation, which, if not restrained by force, or by some strong necessity, is almost irresistible. It is the call of nature, which requires to be relieved by some indulgence, sometimes of ease only, but sometimes too of dissipation and diversion. If it is not complied with, the consequences are”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“I don't think it's much use your looking for the brains: a creature who twice walked into a lions den can't have got any.”
Quote by -Aesop
“My sons, if you are of one mind, and unite to assist each other, you will be as this faggot, uninjured by all the attempts of your enemies; but if you are divided among yourselves, you will be broken as easily as these sticks.”
Quote by -Aesop
“I don't mind having to die now, for I see that he is the cause of my death is about to share the same fate.”
Quote by -Aesop
“The faculties of the mind itself have never yet been distinguished and defined, with satisfactory precision, by all the efforts of the most acute and metaphysical philosophers. Sense, perception, judgment, desire, volition, memory, imagination, are found to be separated by such delicate shades and minute gradations that their boundaries have eluded the most subtle investigations, and remain a pregnant source of ingenious disquisition and controversy.”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton
“Nothing is more repugnant to the human mind in an age of equality than the idea of subjection to forms.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
“No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
“It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.
Quote by -Macaulay Culkin
I dont mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if Im in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.
Quote by -Macaulay Culkin
I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
Quote by -Zora Neale Hurston
The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind - that is the reason he is still.
Quote by -Zhuangzi
Flow with whatever may happen + let your mind be free. .. stay centered, by accepting whatever you're doing. .. this is the ultimate.
Quote by -Zhuangzi
Out of this same light, out of the central mind, We make a dwelling in the evening air, In which being there together is enough.
Quote by -Wallace Stevens
You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself. That values itself. That understands itself.
Quote by -Wangari Maathai