Powerful Mind Quotes to Unlock Your Inner Potential - page 54

If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs.
If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs.
 Bruce Barton
To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.
The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit.
 Joseph Altuzarra
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
The great secret is a controlled imagination and a well-sustained attention, firmly and repeatedly focused on the object to be accomplished.
 Neville Goddard
The brain has a quality referred to as plasticity. The ability to form new neural pathways even into very old age. The brain is fluid, flexible and incredibly adaptable to new experiences.
We have to move toward specificity, intelligence, facts, proof, and mutual affection. What I think people have to do now is be very, very assertive about the utter essentiality of intellectual undertakings.
Logic won't change an emotion but action will.
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
 V. S. Naipaul
To be unafraid of the judgement of others is the greatest freedom you can have.
To be unafraid of the judgement of others is the greatest freedom you can have.
 Timothy Shriver
Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
And for ego, to accept that you have ego is the only way and then it will drop out. If you know there is ego, ego will drop out.
 Nirmala Srivastava
Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict success, let alone satisfaction.
 Diane Ackerman
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
 Lucille Ball
The link between my brain and my mouth is just not there anymore.
The cautious seldom err.
Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.
You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.
 Cheryl Strayed
The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this \
The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.
 Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.