Mind Quotes - Page 477

It is impossible to move on to new states of mind unless you seek the forgiveness of those you've offended.

The highest teaching is never written down. It's only communicated from teacher to student because it's a "transmission of the lamp." It's a transmission of mind.

Your inner being already knows. It's trying to communicate with you. But it needs to shift you into a different state of mind.

If you are psychic, you can see into the minds of others. You can use that opening to aid somebody. Sometimes someone's trying to tell you something and they don't even know what it is.

Focus on one point and hold your attention there. The mind will waiver, you'll think a million thoughts, but each time you do, bring your mind back to the point of concentration, seeing it visually.

A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers.

Divine souls suffer violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

A good companion is one you wouldn't mind dying with.

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

The mind goes on working no matter how we try to hold it back.

A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.

We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.

The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another.

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind.

As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do.

A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.

Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.

We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.

We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.