Psychology Quotes · Page 577

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the awakened state, the mind is either perfectly silent or it is a perfectly clear instrument of expression.

— Leonard Jacobson

To be a really great standup artist, a lot of it comes from the mind.

— Sean Strickland

“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Personally my mind needs occupying. If it isn't, it goes all over the place.

— June Brown

“Words, after all, are nothing by themselves. They burst into meaning only in the minds they’ve entered.”

— Vivek Shanbhag

The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual

— Anonymous

The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“With a metal heart I came to this life, My head was a crucible, full of elixir. Pearl by pearl My heart…

— Hersh Saeed

The degree of success that you attain in all of your physical, mental and spiritual undertakings is dependent upon the strength and…

— Frederick Lenz

I hate everything approaching temperamental inspiration,'sacred fire'and all those attributes of genius which serve only as cloaks for untidy minds.

— Piet Mondrian

I'm not talking about reforming #Islam..it is to reform the #Muslim minds & the Muslim understandings of the texts.

— Tariq Ramadan

The exterior image of a human being and the diverse circumstances that surround him are the exact result of his interior image…

— Samael Aun Weor

“When you have a more compassionate mind and cultivate warmheartedness, the whole atmosphere around you becomes more positive and friendlier.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

“Tibby, you are crazy," Carmen said. "Those pants are in love with you. They want you for your body and your mind."…

— Ann Brashares

George W. Bush says he spends sixty to ninety minutes a day working out. He says he works out because it clears…

— Jay Leno

None of the chase scenes that I did had any opticals. We had to do all of that physically. The first thing…

— William Friedkin

When you awaken, you know that everything that occurs at the level of mind is illusory in nature and so you no…

— Leonard Jacobson

I'm often just writing just to write. I'm not writing with...If I write, like, sitting down with a goal in mind, it's…

— Dan Deacon

“The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno…

— John Gardner

I could not help wondering in my own mind…how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary…

— Charles Dickens

Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in…

— James Gleick

I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too.…

— Anne Roiphe

True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“Books expand, enhance, enlighten, and enthrall.Read a good book today,and open your mind to new dimensions!”

— CJ Peterson

Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Allow yourself to be freed from the constraints of what the mind knows, believes & thinks.”

— Eleesha

“Each time you open your mouth you inform others of your state of mind and the condition of your heart.”

— Germany Kent

It's a big shame, because 'Trixter' in my mind were what a real rock n' roll band is all about.

— Steve Brown

Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.

— John Dos Passos

We listen, we watch, we learn. We open our hearts and we open our minds, open our souls.

— Michael Jackson

Sometimes I wish I could read your mind just to see how you feel about me.

— Brittany Snyder

“The most important microphone in the world is inside your mind.”

— Skip Prichard

Make your decision for what is right not expedient, and wash your mind of all compromise.

— B. J. Palmer

I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.

— Libba Bray

“Bondage is a pleasure of the mind just as much as it is of the flesh.”

— Midori

If a cluttered desk reflects a cluttered mind, what then an empty desk?

— Albert Einstein

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

— Carolyn Wells

Crowds of minds can be wise, but crowds of bodies just aren't.

— John Seabrook

Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.

— Louise Erdrich