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• Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram
  remain inaccessible to this state of mind.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, America, Mind

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there is no thought, no state of mind, that is not also a feeling state.
  Nobody can feel too much, though many of us work very hard at feeling too little.
  Feeling is frightening.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Feelings, Mind, Pathways

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?”, p.187, Random House

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• Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want what you've got, and you want what you haven't got. With every kind of waiting, you unconsciously create inner conflict between your here and now, where you don't want to be, and the projected future, where you want to be. This greatly reduces the quality of your life by making you lose the present.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Waiting, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.86, New World Library

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• One of the remarks made by farmers at their public discussion of these problems suggest that they are rapidly ceasing to think of animals as sentient beings at all. If you handle vast numbers of creatures which are in any case going to die soon, it is, I suppose, easy to get into a state of mind in which they seem to be merely machines.

  Kingsley Martin

  Animal, Thinking, Numbers

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• What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind...The mind is raw, full of energy, alive and hungry. It does not think in the way we were brought up to think-well-mann ered, congenial.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Thinking, Practice

  FaceBook post by Natalie Goldberg from Aug 05, 2011

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• By changing our inner state of mind, we can change any suffering or hardship into a source of joy, regarding it as a means for forging and developing our lives. To turn even sorrow into a source of creativity - this is the way of life of a Buddhist

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Buddhist, Creativity, Mean

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• I hate the fact you always feel like you have to be going somewhere, like the end destination is to be finished, or to be happy. But the truth is a lot of us are completely lost, and we don’t know, and that is also a state of mind, to not know who you are and where you’re going.

  Lykke Li

  Hate, Mind, Facts

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• Channel a bohemian state of mind with an effortless dress paired with a must have embroidered moto jacket.

  Lubov Azria

  Mind, Dresses, Bohemian

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• This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture... The basic attitude from which such activity arises, we call-to distinguish it from egoism and selfishness-idealism. By this we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.

  Adolf Hitler

  Attitude, Sacrifice, Men

  "Mein Kampf". Book by Adolf Hitler, Chapter 11, Ralph Manheim translation, 1925.

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• I had so many beliefs against being a singer or what it takes. There was a lot of pain associated with that. The rejection of it all. I lived in a rejection state of mind. Not because of my voice; the mike never rejected me. It was harboring all those bad memories of being broke. It teaches you your worth. Nothing good comes from that.

  Ester Dean

  Pain, Memories, Voice

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• When the mind is relaxed, no longer making an effort, when it is quiet for just a few seconds, then the problem reveals itself and it is solved. That happens when the mind is still, in the interval between two thoughts, between two responses. In that state of mind, understanding comes.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Two, Effort, Meditation

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• Another discovery which came out of my investigation was the fact that when one gives his or her order to produce a definite result and stands by that order, it seems to have the effect of giving one what might be termed a second sight which enables him or her to see right through ordinary problems. What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when one is in that state of mind in which he or she knows exactly what one wants and is fully determined not to quit until he or she finds it.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Determination, Sight, Discovery

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• From early infancy, it appears that our ability to regulate emotional states depends upon the experience of feeling that a significant person in our life is simultaneously experiencing a similar state of mind.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Emotional, Feelings, Mind

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• If an individual has a calm state of mind,
  that person's attitudes and views will be calm and tranquil
  even in the presence of great agitation.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Views, Mind

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• Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

  Dick Gregory

  Mind, Poverty, Poor

  Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

  Gunter Grass

  Class, Feelings, Mind

  "From the Diary of a Snail". Book by Gunter Grass, www.theguardian.com. 1972.

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• A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.

  Herb Caen

  Opportunity, Cities, Ideas

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• One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind: and that as this state of mind changes, poetry is likely to dry up.

  James Agee

  Dry Up, Mind, States

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• Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

  Clive Bell

  Religious, Art, Mean

  'Art' (1914) pt. 2, ch. 1

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• What I wanted with that Ruthless state of mind,: just to show people who I am as a person and why I do what I do, and why I go as hard as I do go.

  Ace Hood

  Who I Am, People, Mind

  Source: djbooth.net

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• I think the Internet has a way of coaching you into this state of mind where you think that every step you make needs to completely supersede the last.

  Alan Palomo

  Thinking, Mind, Coaching

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind.

  William Beckett

  Prose Poetry, Mind, Inspired

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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 don't underestimate the power of mental preparation throughout all of my training. I'm in a much better state of mind about competition.

  Amanda Beard

  Competition, Preparation, Training

  "Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Beard on Competing, Cross-Training & Children". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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• When you feel destructive, negative emotions like hate and anger arise within you towards the person opposing you; cultivate the opposite state of mind.

  Sharon Gannon

  Hate, Opposites, Mind

  "Ask Sharon Gannon About Yoga & Veganism | Communication". ORIGIN Magazine Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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