Mind Quotes - Page 37

• The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.

  Marian Keyes

  Pain, Spring, Chinese

  Marian Keyes (2009). “Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities”, p.72, Zondervan

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• I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'

  Maeve Binchy

  Kings, Journey, Airports

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• We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

  Maeve Binchy

  Disappointment, Betrayal, Hero

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• Once in his life, a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth, I believe. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience, to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder about it, to dwell upon it. He ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it. He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind. He ought to recollect the glare of noon and all the colors of the dawn and dusk.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Believe, Men, Hands

  N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.83, UNM Press

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• Maintain perfect harmony between yourself and every member of your mastermind group. If you fail to carry out this instruction to the letter, you may expect to meet with failure. The master mind principle cannot obtain where perfect harmony does not prevail.

  Napoleon Hill

  Perfect, Letters, May

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• Every mind needs friendly contact with other minds, for food of expansion and growth.

  Napoleon Hill

  Growth, Friendly, Expansion

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.354, Penguin

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• Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Book, Reading, Talking

  "Lenny Hearts Eunice" by Gary Shteyngart, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.

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• Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Thinking, Ideas, Empathy

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

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• The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)

  Muriel Spark

  Girl, Morning, Sparkle

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• In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we wish to perpetuate; it is the self as the window on the world that we can't bear to thinkof shutting. My mind when I was a boy of ten or eleven sent up its silent scream at the thought of future aeons -- at the thought of the cosmic party going on without me. The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise of the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

  John Updike

  Selfish, Party, Boys

  1989 Self-Consciousness, VI. 'On Being A Self Forever'.

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• Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye.  Vision is applied imagination.

  Stephen Covey

  Eye, Imagination, Vision

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. That's history. A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.

  John Dos Passos

  Writing, Generations, Phrases

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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• I think everything I do is normal, not paranormal but normal. Its using the power of the mind to achieve whatever we can endure.

  David Blaine

  Thinking, Normal, Achieve

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• When I do interviews, I enter them with an open mind and try to answer the questions the best I can.

  Tom Araya

  Trying, Answers, Interviews

  "SLAYER's TOM ARAYA: JEFF HANNEMAN's Death 'Has Changed Everything'". Interview with Brian Aberback, www.blabbermouth.net. October 22, 2013.

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• In my better sense of mind, I know that Im far from alone and far from the worst, and the earth keeps spinning. Everything keeps moving, with or without me.

  Phil Anselmo

  Moving, Earth, Spinning

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• Daniel Levitin has more insights per page than any other neuroscientist I know.  The organized Mind is smart, important, and, as always, exquisitely written.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Smart, Organized Mind, Important

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• We need to make material progress, but we need inner development too ... remember that the real development we seek is not in the buildings but in our hearts and minds.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Heart, Progress

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• Sensory experience does not offset the intense pain or pleasure we feel on a mental level; it may distract us, but doesn't overcome it. On the other hand, if we have peace of mind, even negative experiences do not upset us. Peace of mind is also good for our physical health. Medical experts have found that anger, hatred and fear eat into our immune system. Being calm and relaxed is better for our physical well-being.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Hands, Negative Experiences

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• Frozen by fear. Not able to move. Your mind screaming

  James Dashner

  Moving, Frozen, Able

  James Dashner, Brandon Dorman (2011). “The Blade of Shattered Hope”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Heart, Fire, Imagination

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• All of the evidence highlights the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry about. Mind your own business, and support or at least tolerate what we do, and you'll be fine. Put differently, you must refrain from provoking the authority that wields surveillance powers if you wish to be deemed free of wrongdoing. This is a deal that invites passivity, obedience, and conformity. The safest course, the way to ensure being “left alone,” is to remain quiet, unthreatening, and compliant.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Worry, Support, Challenges

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• Life on the road is very different from a normal, day to day life, and sometimes that surrealistic existence can have an effect on you, you tend to forget that's not really how things are supposed to be. But there comes a point where you have to pace yourself and find a place in your mind where you can be real.

  Joe Nichols

  Real, Different, Pace

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• Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Mean, Attachment, Next Day

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• Ive been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image to the sitter.

  Mario Testino

  Giving, Photograph, Smiley

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