Psychology Quotes · Page 459

Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

Child psychology used to be something parents used; today they submit to it.

— Anonymous

“There is but one mind and one power. That power is God.”

— Susan Shumsky

“Nothing is enough that doesn't come with peace of mind. Nothing is enough that doesn't come with love.”

— Tracy Deebs

Just as iron sharpens iron, friends sharpen the minds of each other. Choose your friends wisely.

— Anonymous

The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

— Honore de Balzac

I just try to keep an open mind, and that's the way a lot of good things happen.

— Paul Rodgers

Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope…

— James Hillman

For when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop...

— George Q Cannon

I am after painting reality impressed on the mind so hard that it returns as a dream, but I am not after…

— George Tooker

The Elizabethan mind wanted and demanded that one word could mean 50 things. What Shakespeare offers us is not ambiguity; it's choices.

— Roger Rees

If a Person had the ability in their mind to have footsteps to walk back in their past path of life, to…

— Glen Rambharack

You put the tea in the kettle and light it. Put your hand on the metal and feel it.. but do you…

— Drake

“Who is God? He who, despite having a body, is not the owner of the body, not the owner of the mind,…

— Dada Bhagwan

This mind is the doubting mind, and in the doubting mind we can never feel the presence of peace. We can feel…

— Sri Chinmoy

Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends…

— David J. Schwartz

“A Little Plant and a Great City “Jonah, get up and go to Nineveh,” God said. “Speak the message I give you.”…

— Daniel Partner

I am a person that believes in different emotions with music. Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the…

— Cam Newton

“We reduce, concretize, or substantialize experiences or feelings, which are, in their very nature, fleeting or evanescent. In so doing, we define…

— Mark Epstein

This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be…

— Roger Angell

If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living…

— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

I joined the police force with one motivation in mind: to become a high school PE teacher. After a year of working,…

— Ron Stallworth

“The road to death is a long march beset with all evils, and the heart fails little by little at each new…

— Justin Cronin

We have to learn how to control our minds. We have to learn self-control.

— Francis Chan

A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.

— Victor Hugo

“Just as an exercise habit will change your body, a mindfulness habit will literally reshape your mind.”

— S.J. Scott

A mind that is characterized by unrest will not be tranquil even in the presence of great calm.

— Dalai Lama

“Through one lighthouse, you guide many ships. Iola’s words whispered in my mind. Was she thinking of the”

— Lisa Wingate

A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion.

— Anonymous

“There is no success in this world without first conquering the battle within your mind.”

— Preston Ely

“Occasionally a moderately intelligent thought misses a turn and accidentally enters my mind”

— Barry Hughart

Waking up to the power of the free mind is the same as waking up to all that you are intended to…

— Senora Roy

When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought

— Jim Harrison

I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Women have started speaking their minds, and men have graciously started accepting that. I love this.

— Manisha Koirala

I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind.

— Horace

The mind forever turns on the lathe of its own contradictions.

— James Lileks

“It was the product of a mind that was not merely twisted, but actually sprained.”

— Douglas Adams

I have in my mind that I want to improve every day, I have to analyse if I want to achieve this.

— Marco Silva