Able Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Able Firsts Mind Pauses Proof Psychology Wells Wise
Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
The mind is like a parachute. In order to function, it first has to open. — Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar Copy Share Image
Mind is always in a hurry, and mind is always in search of instantaneous realizations. To wait, for the mind, is very difficult, almost… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind. — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption. — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
The unorganized mind will always be restless until its content is reordered. — Ervin Seale Copy Share Image
My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known,… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Thus ordered thinking arises out of the ordered course of nature in which man finds himself, and this thinking is from the beginning nothing… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any… — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world. — Nas Copy Share
I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it up in my persona. I felt like I wouldn't be able to do stand-up for a career if I was needy. I didn't want to be complaining or whining onstage. I wanted to be cool and… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be able to hit with everybody yelling at him. He had to block all that out, block out everything but this ball that is coming in at a hundred miles an hour and he's got a split… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image