Powerful Mind Quotes to Unlock Your Inner Potential - page 162

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
 Abigail Adams
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
 Ansel Adams
What children, in fact all of us at any age, find frightening is unreliability and emotional coldness. The idea that you can't affect someone, that you can't see where they're coming from and can change tact at any moment.
 Tilda Swinton
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
I remember thinking I just want more. This isn't it. Fame is not the goal. Money is not the goal. To be able to know how to get peace of mind, how to be happy, is something you don't just stumble across. You've got to search for it.
 George Harrison
There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.
 Bette Midler
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Be the change that you want to see in the world.
The Bible doesn't explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obediance.
 Elisabeth Elliot
Only by recognizing the boundaries of our socially constructed scientific-technological reality can we transcend them in imagination and then achieve effective human action.
Only by recognizing the boundaries of our socially constructed scientific-technological reality can we transcend them in imagination and then achieve effective human action.
 Jerome Ravetz
You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.
I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it, I think, from whatever place you do it, whether you're acting or you're singing.
Achieving meaningful goals requires that you commit your entire ass, not just one cheek.
 Steve Pavlina
Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.
 Daniel Radcliffe
...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if I'd spent the week with jumper cables clamped to my brain.
You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.
What occurs as you age is an accumulation of information, data, knowledge, and what I'm going to call the matrix of the mind. There's just a rich, textured, field of information and impressions that have been all networked by the brain.
If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all.
 Henry Adams
Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is inviting intellectual atrophy and spiritual stagnation.
Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is inviting intellectual atrophy and spiritual stagnation.
You and I have that same power at our disposal every moment of the day. At the moment, the questions that we ask ourselves can shape our perception of who we are, what we're capable of, and what we're willing to do to achieve our dreams.