State Of Mind Quotes - Page 12

• Meditation does not imply only the development of single-pointed concentration, sitting in some corner doing nothing. Meditation is an alert state of mind, the opposite of sluggishness; meditation is wisdom. You should remain aware every moment of your daily life, fully conscious of what you are doing and how you are doing it.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Life, Wisdom, Opposites

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• In my lifetime, I've met a lot of people who never rode a wave, but we share the same consciousness. Surfing is a kind of a state of mind... I mean, it's a feeling that people have about their life that really, in a way, kind of makes them a surfer.

  Gerry Lopez

  Mean, People, Surfing

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• In order to learn true humility (I use this expression to describe the state of mind under discussion), it is good for a person to withdraw from the turmoil of the world (we see that Christ withdrew when the people wanted to proclaim him king as well as when he had to walk the thorny path), for in life either the depressing or the elevating impression is too dominant for a true balance to come about. Here, of course, individuality is very decisive.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Depressing, Kings, Humility

  "Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers: Autobiographical, 1829-1848". Book by Søren Kierkegaard and Gregor Malantschuk, p. 33, Journals 1A 68 (July 29, 1835), 1978.

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• Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Peaceful, Mind, Wish

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Accept the challenges of life and you'll continue to find that winning is the spirit of living . . . it's merely a state of mind.

  Mychal Wynn

  Winning, Challenges, Mind

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• I will keep that a secret as it was so indecent I doubt she was in her normal state of mind when she made it.

  Robert Pattinson

  Doubt, Secret, Mind

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• If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of mind he is seeking to avoid is no more than a mild state of depression or apathy, this still constitutes a cogent reason for engaging in creative work even when it brings no obvious external benefit in its train.

  Anthony Storr

  Writing, Men, Creative

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• The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind. It's whatever you want it to be.

  Tom Mix

  Cowboy, Mind, Want

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• I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind/ A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and guns

  Kanye West

  Gun, Knives, Up Early

  Song: Family Business

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• Blackness is a state of mind and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white women. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.

  Halle Berry

  White, People, Community

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

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• I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

  Martin Freeman

  White, Black, Mind

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

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• Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.

  Bruce Lee

  Truth, Giving, Choices

  "Tao of Jeet Kune Do". Book by Bruce Lee, 1975.

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• In London November isn't a month, it's a state of mind.

  Antal Szerb

  Mind, London, Months

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• I believe that Manila can be a reflection of your state of mind. Being a city of extreme contrasts it's easy to see how it can become an intense personal experience. Manila can be chaotic and spiritual, dirty and divine, gritty and gorgeous all at once. If you don't find beauty and poetry here, you will never find it anywhere.

  Carlos Celdran

  Spiritual, Believe, Dirty

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• Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day.

  Steven Pressfield

  Attitude, Rain, Dark

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• He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.

  Norman Douglas

  Mind, Atheism, Scylla

  Norman Douglas (2014). “South Wind”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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• ... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one of U.S. benevolence, generally held by the public, and the other of ends-justify-the-means brutality sponsored by counterinsurgency specialists. Normally the specialists carry out their actions in remote locations with little notice in the national press. That allows the public to sustain its faith in a just America, while hard-nosed security and economic interests are still protected in secret.

  Robert Parry

  Military, War, Mean

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• There is a delicate balance that we need to honor as we try to find meaning in any event or state of mind: Many people confuse finding meaning with finding a reason, putting our finger on something or someone for blame.

  Stephen Levine

  Inspirational, People, Honor

  Stephen Levine (2005). “Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart”, p.38, Rodale

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• Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm.

  Richard Rorty

  Discipline, Soul, Intellectual

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• I just wanted to let people know that, in any aspect in which you're getting' money, you've gotta go overtime in order to provide for your loved ones or those who are around you. So that was my state of mind.

  Ace Hood

  Order, People, Mind

  Source: djbooth.net

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• I wanted people to feel me as a person. I do this music for the people, man, so at the end of the day I feel like, [given] our state of mind and the state our economy is in, I felt like we needed motivation for the type of situation we're in nowadays.

  Ace Hood

  Motivation, Men, People

  Source: djbooth.net

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• Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess

  Frank Brady

  Pride, Player, Mind

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• There is a gap between the knowledge, skills, or state of mind of the learner and what he is to learn, which it seems to me any teaching activity must seek to bridge if it is to deserve that label. Teaching activities must therefore take place at a level where the pupil can take on what it is intended he should learn.

  Paul Q. Hirst

  Teaching, Bridges, Skills

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• For me, it might sound cliche, but beauty for me really does start on the inside. It's like a state of mind, a state of love if you will. Then, whatever you can do on the outside is all like a bonus.

  Queen Latifah

  Mind, Bonus, Might

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• Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.

  Minor White

  Photography, Inspiration, Creative

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