A Quote by E. Nesbit

Time is but a mode of thought

E. Nesbit

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E. Nesbit
English - Author
August 15, 1858 - May 4, 1924

What I believe is that people have many modes in which they can be. When we live in cities, the one we are in most of the time is the alert mode. The 'take control of things' mode, the 'be careful, watch out' mode, the 'speed' mode - the 'Red Bull' mode, actually. There's nothing wrong with it. It's all part of what we are.

Brian Eno

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

Marquis de Sade

If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the 'closed' mode. But the moment the action is over, try to return to the 'open' mode... because in that mode we are the most aware, most receptive, most creative, and therefore at our most intelligent.

John Cleese

I guess for me, balance isn't about treating your time like a pie chart and dividing it into equally sized slices for you, the kids, work, and so on. It's about the quality of how you spend your time, not the quantity--are you being present and focused on whatever you're doing while you're doing it? I truly believe that's how you can be the best version of yourself, whether you're in work mode, mom mode, or wife mode. When I know I'm giving my undivided attention in each of these areas, I don't feel so guilty about the time spent away from them.

Jessica Alba

We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more democratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the tighter, more rigid, more hierarchical, more tunnel-visioned. Most people, unfortunately spend most of their time in the closed mode.

John Cleese

I'm in two modes when I'm on Lanai: In engineering mode, I'm trying to find the right place for the reservoir and the desalination plant, and looking at designs for new hotel rooms. The rest of the time, I'm in decompression mode. I'm on Hulopoe Beach, going for a swim, or on my paddleboard surrounded by 100 spinner dolphins.

Larry Ellison

There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue.

William Godwin

Dreaming is a philogenetically older mode of thought.

Carl Jung

First there was the word. A Course in Miracles says that prayer is the "medium of miracles." It's the realm of thought where we are aligned with the thought of God and therefore in a co- creative mode. It's where we surrender our minds to His mind and become empowered.

Marianne Williamson

Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear - only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.

Jasper Fforde

I'm just in work mode, and that prevents me from going into the Hollywood starlet mode, I suppose.

Scarlett Johansson

It's a whole lot more productive to be in problem-solving mode than it is to be in behavior modification mode.

Ross W. Greene

A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being.

Lawrence LeShan

The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.

John Cleese

We need to be in the open mode when we are pondering a problem, but, once we come up with a solution, we must then switch to the closed mode to implement it.

John Cleese

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.