Powerful Mind Quotes to Unlock Your Inner Potential - page 69

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty is something she needs to touch.
 Jean Giraudoux
Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas.
 Hermann Ebbinghaus
Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.
 Robert Fulghum
Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.
 Patanjali
All abilities come from one mind
 Yamamoto Tsunetomo
You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.
Tranquillity consisteth in a steadiness of the mind; and how can that vessel that is beaten upon by contrary waves and winds, and tottereth to either part, be said to keep a steady course? Resolution is the only mother of security.
 Joseph Hall
An act of imagination is an act of self-acceptance.
 Richard Hugo
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brain power and emotional equilibrium.
 Arnold Palmer
He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on the rock because the wind and rain have ruined his house on the sand.
 Constance Naden
The human brain has left and right brain symmetry with its own nature and can process information which initially appears to have no pattern or order. However, the brain has the ability to process visual information much more efficiently.
 Tony Buzan
The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.
 Daniel Day-Lewis
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
[That night] I was sitting by Jack Nicholson with my long list of thanks, and I said, `I'm so nervous. I don't know what to say if I go up there.' He said, `Don't get emotional, drop the names, and dedicate it to your mother.'
 Javier Bardem
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
But what is madness, if not being able to control your own mind?
But what is madness, if not being able to control your own mind?
 Lady Victoria Leatham
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.