Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When one is working out a problem ... life becomes duality. One's ego transacts the ordinary routine of things, as if the… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
“Here are a few mind teasers to help you think in unexpected ways (see answers at end of chapter). • A bus… — Dan Miller Copy Share Image
“ISOLATION DOES STRANGE THINGS to a person’s mind. This is true for any social creature, human or otherwise. Monkeys taken from their… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Internalize the vagrant mind and fix it in the Lord. Then the meditation will be profound and intense. Don't open the eyes.… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
“What's fascinating about this list is that ten people with a a slew of medals among them decided that the two most… — Amanda Lang Copy Share Image
I took a shining object, as sharp as I could find, and I made a pretty picture, from deep within my mind.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was really interested in this ability for others to create virtual memories for us. In "The Cartographers" I explore this through… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
“A child who is being abused on an ongoing basis needs to be able to function despite the trauma that dominates his… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
The field was even greener than my boy's mind had pictured it. In later years, friends of ours visited Ireland and said… — Duke Snider Copy Share Image
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
After engaging in acts of war against another nation, there exists a degree of uncertainty in terms of the enemy's reactions. War… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
When the media would call and want to interview me, I thought it was 'cause they really wanted to find out what… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks — already in the infant mind these couples were compromisingly linked; and after two… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency.… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I was downright obnoxious. In second grade, we had some program where we kept a public list of all the books we… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
“Whoso List to Hunt Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind, But as for me, helas! I may no… — Sir Thomas Wyatt Copy Share Image
“...if you ask anyone in the throes of depression how he got there, to pin down the turning point, he'll never know.… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I would say that there are a lot of people who currently disagree with the death penalty, I just hope that it's… — John Cabello Copy Share Image
“Mr. Grace sounded like a very small child, helpless, hopeless. I had made him fuck himself with his own big tool, like… — Richard Bachman Copy Share Image
Have you ever sat very quietly with closed eyes and watched the movement of your own thinking? Have you watched your mind… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“I extend the horizon of the senses by the imagination; … this conception … exalts me above the limited standpoint of the… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Patrick Melrose' is a frantically accurate exploration of the addict mind tormented by trauma, magnificently brought to life by Benedict Cumberbatch. At… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
“Creation, whether it's writing, painting or whatever, is essentially despotic and autocratic in nature, because it's the work of one mind and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“In trying to make sense of this pessimism, Ridley, like Kahneman, sees a combination of cognitive biases and evolutionary psychology as the… — Peter H. Diamandis Copy Share Image
“Because each work of art originates in the mind and feelings of a human being, it reaches its destination in the mind… — George Heard Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Today’s challenge is to keep your focus and preserve the sanctity of mind required to create, and to ultimately make an impact… — Jocelyn K. Glei Copy Share Image
“A mind that moves associatively (as my mind does and probably your mind too) like a firefly in a grassy yard on… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Know that for the human mind there are certain objects of perception which are within the scope of its nature and capacity;… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
“Adventure is a loose word that means different things to different people. It is a state of mind, a spirit of trying… — Alastair Humphreys Copy Share Image
“It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn't try to quit being… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I don’t know whether you have ever seen a map of a person’s mind. Doctors sometimes draw maps of other parts of… — J.M. Barrie Copy Share Image
Thinking is the subtlest form of self-polemics, the art of a certain finesse in psychological self-vivisection and self-crucifixion (Hegel of course called… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits which he requires, so… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Whatever a scientist is doing - reading, cooking, talking, playing - science thoughts are always there at the edge of the mind.… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
I like this thought: Your mind is a cupboard, and you stock the shelves. Let us make certain that our cupboard shelves,… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
“When I was certain he was going to kill me, my mind went blank, and I didn't have any hope anymore. All… — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
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