Mental Quotes
2442 Mental quotes by 1534 unique authors
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Your own mental attitude is your real boss.
— Napoleon Hill
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The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another…
— Nicole Kidman
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Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.
— Norman Cousins
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The Lord called Himself and is the 'good Shepherd' (Jn. 10:11). If you believe in His guidance, then you will understand by your heart that…
— John of Kronstadt
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Our starting-point must be the fact that God cannot be named... no mind has yet contained or language embraced God's substance in its fullness. No,…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation.
— Jaggi Vasudev
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A tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon the…
— Michael Lewis
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Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration.
— Mary Roach
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There are seeds of happiness in every soul. Our mental attitude and dispositions constitute the environment in which these seeds germinate. There is as much…
— David O. McKay
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There simply is nothing else like it. And, as a test of physical and mental endurance it has no equal. Other sports may be as…
— Chris Boardman
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The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work…
— Thomas Huxley
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Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.
— Jaggi Vasudev
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I believe that the issue of mental health services for our troops deploying or returning from combat is one that demands the attention of this…
— Rosa DeLauro
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The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
— Samuel Alexander
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
— Samuel Alexander
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Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that…
— Dick Butkus
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The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual…
— Edward Thorndike
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The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science…
— Howard Aiken
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The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
— Joshua Reynolds
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Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see…
— Arthur Keith
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The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of…
— Polly Toynbee
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Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.
— Robert Smithson
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The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude.
— Mark Spitz
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Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
— Frank Moore Colby
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Pictures help you to form the mental mold.
— Robert Collier
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