Beginner S Mind Quotes

#1. The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.

Jack Kornfield

#2. I think a critical part of being successful in our industry is having a beginner's mind

Marc Benioff

#3. An open beginner's mind is a powerful tool for developing patience.

Allan Lokos

#4. In Japan, there is the phrase 'shoshin', which translates to 'beginner's mind'. Maintaining a beginner's mind is the goal of practicing.

Bob Smith

#5. Make no mistake, you earn a white belt. The belt is a physical representation of a commitment to the beginner's mind. It is a vulnerability and a willingness to learn that shines through.

Chris Matakas

#6. I've worked with a lot of first time directors; in fact, I enjoy it because there is a certain beginner's mind that they bring into a project that isn't loaded with the way things have been done before. There's a certain freedom to it.

Stephanie Allain

#7. I set myself challenges every time I work. Ideally, I approach everything as though it's the first time - with a beginner's mind and an amateur's love.

Willem Dafoe

#8. If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.

Shunryu Suzuki

#9. You wanna build your IQ higher in the next two years? Be uncomfortable. That means, learn something where you have a beginner's mind.

Nolan Bushnell

#10. The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.

Shunryu Suzuki

#11. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few

Shunryu Suzuki

#12. In Buddhism, what is known as beginner's mind is a way to look at the world as if for the first time: with interest, enthusiasm, and engagement. This may be the optimal state of mind for a healthy brain.

Louis Cozolino

#13. We strive always to have a beginner's mind.

Marc Benioff

#14. You need to have a beginner's mind to create bold innovation.

Marc Benioff

#15. This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner. Be very very careful about this point. If you start to practice zazen, you will begin to appreciate your beginner's mind. It is the secret of Zen practice.

Shunryu Suzuki

#16. Not only are Puerto Ricans citizens by birth, but one would be hard-pressed to find a Puerto Rican without a sister in New York or a son in Chicago, a cousin in Orlando or a daughter in Honolulu or Oklahoma City.

Luis A. Ferre

#17. On the one hand I have very traditional values: I'm looking for love and want a baby one day. On the other hand, I have a secret and rebel side, that I maybe took from an Australian mom who handed down to me the love for adventure and freedom. And sometimes I feel a bit offbeat.

Kristen Stewart

#18. It's very important as a beginner that you understand right from the start that meditation is about befriending your thinking, about holding it gently in awareness, no matter what is on your mind in a particular moment. It is not about shutting off your thoughts or changing them in any way.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#19. all people were educated in this 21st century
though i'm unique then them,
because they were only educated and i'm..
weeducated..

p.s though haven't tried it yet. lol.

Weed Man

#20. So unabashed as to make its recipient afraid - not of the girl but of a world that didn't abide such forthright joy.

Sarah McCoy

#21. Have the right attitude in advanced practice. Feel that you are always a beginner in Zen. They refer to it as "beginners mind". I feel I am a beginner, always; because it's true.

Frederick Lenz

#22. The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.

William Osler

#23. There must be, in any complete revelation of God's mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but beginners.

R.A. Torrey

#24. Turkey has worked alongside its allies from the beginning.

Ahmet Davutoglu

#25. Dogs make good pets because they are very loyal

Dave Barry

#26. When an opportunity comes your way, it's about making sure you're prepared to be the one who can walk through the door and deliver the goods. And I've had a lot of luck on my side and I've been prepared for that luck.

Halle Berry

#27. In the mind of the beginner, there are many possibilities. In the mind of the expert there are few.

Shunryu Suzuki

#28. Have you ever loved someone so much, you felt like your heart was going to just beat right out of your chest?

Crissi Langwell

#29. Mindfulness requires being a beginner. Setting absurdly high-standards, and being unwilling to be a novice, are the joint enemies of personal progress and change. Nobody benchpresses 100 kilos the first time they enter a gym.

Paul Gibbons

#30. But the one thing that I would never, ever recover from would be losing you. You made me promise before to go on if that happened, but Bones, I wouldn't want to. - Cat from This Side of the Grave

Jeaniene Frost

#31. The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the experts, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all possibilities.

Shunryu Suzuki

#32. I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.

Jodi Picoult

#33. I am happiest when I clear my mind and allow the world around me to reteach me what I thought I already knew.

Vironika Tugaleva

#34. In the mind of the beginner, all things are possible, But in the mind of the expert, only a few. Zen Master Suzuki-Roshi

Barbara L. Jordan