Top 1200 Closed Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Erase the word "failure" from your vocabulary. No case is ever truly closed, and no challenge is ever over.

Travel doesn't merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind.

An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.

Epistemologists should be concerned with knowledge and justification and so on, not our concepts of them; philosophers of mind should be concerned with various features of our mental life and the large-scale structure of the mind, not our concepts of mind, or consciousness, or anything else

Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.

One of the ideas that runs through this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] is this Buddhist notion that the mind is incredibly powerful; not the brain but the mind.

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

I do have a chore schedule - in my mind. I don't tell anyone I have it, but it's in my mind.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Using the combined, integrated force of the mind and body is more efficient than using one without the other. Since the body can only exist in the present, that's where the mind should be too (unless we deliberately choose to contemplate the past or future). At the same time, the body needs to be healthy and in optimum operating condition so that it can respond effectively to the mind's directives.

On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.

The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular.

Yes, flexibility of body and physical perfection for Yogasana is important. However more important is the state of your mind, Meditative mind. Your flexibility might be excellent but if your mind is not attentive, you are merely doing some physical exercise, not Yoga.

My advice to anyone is, have confidence, sit back, wait for the process to happen. And when it does, whatever the good Lord has in mind, he has in mind.

If you are serious about sports and athletics then you need to begin the discipline of mind. With the power of mind, almost anything can be accomplished.

The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.

Our minds are forced to become fixed upon different things by an attraction in them which we cannot resist. To control the mind, to place it just where we want it, requires special training. It cannot be done in any other way. In the study of religion the control of the mind is absolutely necessary. We have to turn the mind back upon itself in this study.

Clear mind is like the full moon in the sky. Sometimes clouds come and cover it, but the moon is always behind them. Clouds go away, then the moon shines brightly. So don't worry about clear mind: it is always there. When thinking comes, behind it is clear mind. When thinking goes, there is only clear mind. Thinking comes and goes, comes and goes, You must not be attached to the coming or the going.

When I went down to London in '67, I had three things in mind: To survive, to find peace of mind, and to make music doing it.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

It's impossible to know what everyone does behind closed doors. Even in families, you don't know sometimes what's going on.

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

I'm never going to get married." "You're crazy." Buddy brightened. "You'll change your mind." "No. My mind's made up.

It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet.

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to decadence.

Mind who you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved.

I don't mind staying home. I'm a homebody anyway, so I don't mind.

Unlike most politicians who speak only from their mind, Amar Singhji thinks and speaks both from his mind and heart.

As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.

Ignorance and fear are but matters of the mind - and the mind is adaptable.

The need of the human mind for contrast has its roots in the mind's age-old habit of looking for differences and likenesses. When the mind can find no differences and no likenesses, as is the case when monotony is present, it restlessly, then resentfully, and at last frantically seeks for contrast that it may again busy itself with observing differences and likenesses.

Curiosity is the beginning of the mind, Wonder is the end of the mind.

A million thoughts went through my mind. What little mind I have.

and there grows in the mind a scent, it may be, of locust blossoms whose perfume is itself a wind moving to lead the mind away.

As a professional player, I consider my career closed, but I don't want to exclude the possibility in the future that I may return, but not as a player.

That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist.

To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass.

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

Everything is a state of mind. Astral travel is the ability to wander through different states of mind and develop psychic perceptions.

When you're a kid, you're only exposed to what's going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.

A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)

The material world has only been constructed at the price of taking the self, that is, mind, out of it, removing it; mind is not part of it...

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

Love is a state of mind which has nothing to do with the mind.

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's like space. You can't hold it. It's not the mind of materialists or nihilists. If you don't see your own miraculously aware nature, you'll never find a Buddha, even if you break your body into atoms.

You think you're losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it's not all gone.

Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.

I know you haven't made your mind up yet But I would never do you wrong I've known it from the moment that we met No doubt in my mind where you belong

I love thinking about mechanics and having your mind agree with the mechanics. Sometimes you can shoot it correctly, but your mind doesn't think that it's right. So it's like, how do you get your mind to trust that that's the right way to shoot it.

When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.

They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.

A period of high civilization is one in which thoughts fly freely from mind to mind, from one country to another-yes, from the past into the present.

When the mind is in a passive and receptive state, absolutely still and in silence, the Essence or Buddhata is liberated from the mind, and ecstasy arrives.

It is only the religious mind that is a truly revolutionary mind.

I am very shy. When I go to a charity ball, I don't mind if people look at my sleeves. I mind terribly if I have to say something.

Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.

We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally, to be undergoing fusion.