State Of Mind Quotes - Page 8

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

  Antal Szerb

  Mind, London, Months

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  Mad, Mind, Lasts

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• I have enjoyed the success my work has brought me. Some might say I haven't really struggled to be successful. I think it is my perspective that is utopian. My state of mind is positive and peaceful. And I dare to dream.

  Vidya Balan

  Dream, Successful, Thinking

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• Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.

  William Kent Krueger

  Boys, Men, Fishing

  William Kent Krueger (2014). “Ordinary Grace: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Mindfulness is not just a word or a
  discourse by the Buddha, but a
  meaningful state of mind. It means
  we have to be here now, in this very
  moment, and we have to know what
  is happening internally and
  externally. It means being alert to
  our motives and learning to change
  unwholesome thoughts and
  emotions into wholesome ones
  Mindfulness is a mental activity that
  in due course eliminates all
  suffering.

  Ayya Khema

  Meaningful, Mind, Suffering

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• Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Mind, Possibility, States

  Joe Abercrombie (2012). “The Heroes: A First Law Novel”, p.88, Hachette UK

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• Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them. Happiness is clear-headed human interaction and empathy. Happiness is home. And home is not a house-home is a mythological conceit. It is a state of mind. A place of communion and unconditional love. It is where, when you cross its threshold, you finally feel at peace.

  Dennis Lehane

  Lying, Home, Unconditional Love

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• There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish; but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief — a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

  George Eliot

  Beauty, Crush, Baby

  "Adam Bede".

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• Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.

  Edward Abbey

  Mind, States, Chastity

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.43, RosettaBooks

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• A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith.

  Napoleon Hill

  Mind, Think And Grow Rich, Emotion

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.45, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Attitude, Self Confidence, Years

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