Mind Quotes - Page 21

• Meditation is a time to focus, train the mind, and bring it to stillness. It is not a time to rest and relax.

  Darren Main

  Time, Focus, Meditation

  Darren Main (2003). “Inner Tranquility: A Guide to Seated Meditation: 3rd Edition”, p.14, BookBaby

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• if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Ambition, Common Sense, Desire

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• You cannot divide minds into sexes. Each human being presents an individual problem.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Sex, Problem, Individual

  Patricia Wentworth (1969). “The Brading Collection”

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• ... the things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Body, Happened, Your Body

  Patricia Wentworth (1958). “The Alington inheritance”

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

  Jennifer Stone

  Technology, Suffering, Blame

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• All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.

  Jennifer Stone

  Media, Literature, Language

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.

  Jennifer Stone

  Passion, Fire, Poetry

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• Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.

  Jennifer Stone

  Lying, Writing, Heart

  Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr

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• in mad people fear goes on constantly, night and day, wearing one ditch in the mind that all thoughts must travel in.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Fear, Night, People

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.68, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.

  Helen Clark MacInnes

  Pain, Feelings, Vulnerable

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• going into a cave might be like going inside one's own mind, crawling around in the pitch-black, nook-and-crannied labyrinth of the human psyche.

  Barbara Hurd

  Nature, Adventure, Labyrinth

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• What curious little corners of folly are to be found in even the sanest brain!

  Marie of Romania

  Brain, Littles, Curious

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• So we see, brethren and sisters that the words of Christ can be a personal Liahona for each of us, showing us the way. Let us now be slothful because of the easiness of the way. Let us in faith take the words of Christ into our minds and into our hearts as they are recorded in sacred scripture and as they are uttered by living prophets, seers, and revelators. Let us with faith and diligence feast upon the words of Christ, for the words of Christ will be our spiritual Liahona telling us all things what we should do.

  W. Rolfe Kerr

  Spiritual, Heart, Sacred Scripture

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• Everything that is created begins in the mind

  Ruth Fishel

  Ruth Fishel (1988). “Learning to live in the now: 6-week personal plan to recovery”, Hci

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• Some ministers preach from notes and some don't. They have argued about it for centuries. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. Two Welsh preachers were on their way to a meeting. One noticed that the other carried written outlines. 'Ah,' he remonstrated, 'you cannot carry fire on paper.' 'True,' replied his companion, 'but you can use paper to start a fire!'

  Vance Havner

  Men, Fire, Two

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• A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.

  Vance Havner

  Children, Heart, Should Have

  Vance Havner (1988). “The Best of Vance Havner”, Baker Publishing Group

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• There is nothing to fear other than my mind.

  Shantideva

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• When we bring our mind into our body, the body becomes mindful, and the mind becomes embodied

  Donna Farhi

  Body

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• By a network I don't necessarily mean your customers or clients. I mean a network of people who know you, like you, and trust you. They might never buy a thing from you, but they've always got you in the backs of their minds. They're people who are personally invested in seeing you succeed... They're your army of personal walking ambassadors.

  Bob Burg

  Mean, Army, People

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• Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Philosophy, Mean, Liberty

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• The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and yet never paying heed to the almost audible susurrus of desire- the desire every book has to be taken down and read, to live, to come into being in somebody's mind. He even hands the volumes over the counter, seeks them out in their proper places or returns them there without once realising that a Book is a Person and not a Thing.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Book, Taken, Hands

  W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

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• Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

  Greg MacGillivray

  Filmmaking, Satisfying

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Confit is not something that comes to mind for summer. Usually it means duck confit, made by cooking the legs and thighs in duck fat to preserve them for winter.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Summer, Mean, Winter

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• The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height.

  Kevin Kline

  Relaxation, Technique, Centeredness

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• Mind is shapely, Art is shapely.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Art, Art Is

  Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg (2009). “The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, 1956-1991”, p.254, Counterpoint Press

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