Top 1200 Creative Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.

I believe in mind over matter and doing anything you set your mind on.

There is no happiness until the mind is still. The cause of all sickness and sadness is the fluctuation of the mind.

Control your own mind, and you may never be controlled by the mind of another.

Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another's state of mind.

We might think we can find a buddha or enlightenment somewhere beyond this mind; we might think we can find serenity, clarity, and meaning beyond this mind, but such place does not exist. Everything that appears is this mind, Bodhidharma says.

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein, so also the chitta vrtti (fluctuations of mind) disturb the peace of the mind. The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.

Those who have a warped mind, a mind of discord, have been defeated from the beginning.

Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind.

You got a little bit of an attitude, Mr. English, if you don't mind my saying so. I don't mind.

Cognitive states of mind are seldom addictive, since they depend upon exploration of the world, and the individual encounter with the individual object, whose appeal is outside the subject's control. Addiction arises when the subject has full control over a pleasure and can ponder it at will. It is primarily a matter of sensory pleasure, and involves a kind of short-circuiting of the pleasure network. Addiction is characterized by a loss of the emotional dynamic that would otherwise govern an outward-directed, cognitively creative life.

It is not about mind-watching; but rather recognizing That which watches the mind.

We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.

I came from a different mind-set growing up, and my mind has changed.

A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

I want to be a fighter, this is what I love to do, but it's totally taxing on the body and the mind. Especially the mind.

It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.

By keeping the mind in the present, unless you deliberately want to contemplate the past or future, it's possible to firmly face life without fear. Then, no thoughts of past failures or future problems will exist in the mind, and a truly positive mental state will result-fudoshin, the "immovable mind".

To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.

MY THEORY: the trouble is in the mind, for the body is only the house for the mind to dwell in . . . If your mind has been deceived by some invisible enemy into a belief, you have put it into the form of a disease, with or without your knowledge. By my theory or truth I come in contact with your enemy and restore you to health and happiness.

The really creative person is not interested in dominating anybody. He is so utterly rejoicing in life - he wants to create, he wants to participate with God. Creativity is prayer. And whenever you create something, in those moments you are with God, you walk with God, you live in God. The more creative you are the more divine you are. To me, creativity is religion. Art is just the entrance to the temple of religion.

Instead of thinking of this and that, one thing after the other, let your mind recognize itself in a single moment. When the mind recognizes itself, there is no thing to see there. It’s just wide open. That’s because the essence of mind is empty. It’s wide open and free

I think there's a great storytelling tradition in the restaurant business that tends to attract people with an oral tradition of bulls - ting and bollocking. Creative people, people for whom the 9-to-5 world is not attractive or impossible. It seems that way. There are a lot of stories in the business, and a lot of characters - and it seems to attract its share of artists and writers and people who hope to do something creative in their lives.

So if you are seeking something else in the name of creativity, then drop the idea of being creative. At least consciously, deliberately, do whatsoever you want to do. Never hide behind masks. If you really want to be creative, then there is no question of money, success, prestige, respectability. Then you enjoy your activity; then each act has an intrinsic value. You dance because you like dancing; you dance because you delight in it.

A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

The great power of separating the watching mind from the thinking mind is that the watching mind is innately loving. Some call this part of the psyche the 'compassionate witness.' Sharing our difficult feelings with a compassionate witness is the crucial step that heals the infinite small wounds inflicted upon the soul by everyday life.

The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.

Artificial Intelligence is creating a mind, hopefully as pure a mind as possible, for a computer.

The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being.

The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.

God is the mind that imagines physical reality. We are each like a cell in that mind.

It is the mind that is woven, the mind that was jerked And tufted in straggling thunder and shattered sun.

As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm, As is the atom, so is the universe, As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind.

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Mind mapping is a technique based on memory and creativity and comprehension and understanding, so when the student or a child uses the mind map, they are using their brain in the way their brain was designed to be used, and so the mind helps them in all learning and cognitive skills. It simply helps them in what the brain does naturally.

The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind.

Every great creative idea, formulated as a philosophy, has a social setting - in time, in a geographical location, in a political economy, in a matrix of interests and knowledge. It is not a free-swinging phenomenon like a balloon without moorings. It is not produced in a vacuum and, being creative, it does not work in a vacuum. Nurtured on things experienced and things known, it reaches out toward the unknown like a flower on a stalk growing out of the soil.

If the mind wants to comprehend reality, it will have to come out of the past and the future. But coming out of the past and the future, it is no longer the mind at all. Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world that the door to reality is no-mind.

There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his greatest gifts... the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element and to such an extent that it even brings out the bad qualities, as for instance, ruthless, naive egoism (so-called "auto-eroticism"), vanity, all kinds of vices-and all this in order to bring to the human I at least some life-strength, since otherwise it would perish of sheer inanition.

The forms are part of the mind, or really are the mind, they're just the contents of this universal night.

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

Fame is a mind - a way of thinking about things. It's all in your mind.

I don't mind sacrifice. I don't mind discipline. But a good coach allows people to blossom. I've seen that. I didn't have it.

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

What we need is peace of mind. We can gain that only through the control of our mind.

You cannot solve a problem with the mind that created it. First you must change the mind.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

The mind enters itself, and God the mind, And one is One, free in the tearing wind.

It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.

My mind is just as open as it ever was, professor. But it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it for superstitions.

Mind is madness. Only when you go beyond the mind, there will be meditation.

I don't mind genre names. "Chillwave" is probably the last thing I would think of, but I don't mind it.

They say that travelling broadens your mind, but first you must have a mind.