Mind Quotes

Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.

My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.

You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.

This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.

I saw Ellen and my knees were weak. It was amazing. And it was very hard for me to get her out of my mind after that. Then when I saw her that night, we started talking, and that's that.

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm, and a weak mind.

I was blessed with a strong arm and a weak mind.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.

The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

I wouldn't mind spending a little more time and effort and money on good skin care. And I'm sure they'll come out with, as they are doing, with more and more treatments that are noninvasive and healthy ways to keep your face looking as good as it can.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it.

Skateboarding helps a ton with balance, precision, with air awareness... it gets your senses to be spot-on and it's also a great way to take my mind off things.

I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.