Top 100 Better Mind Quotes
#1. Endurance is not a young person's game. I thought I might even be better at 60 than I was at 30. You have a body that's almost as strong, but you have a much better mind.
Diana Nyad
#2. Dance releases endorphin chemicals into your brain and makes you feel alive and wanting to get on with the rest of your day. That positivity can help you to communicate better with other people because it gives you a much better mind set. Socially it brings you together with people.
Andrew Stone
#3. I could live a better life if I had a better mind and a better body
Ashleigh Brilliant
#4. Don't mind your make-up, you'd better make your mind up.
Frank Zappa
#5. And then Lucy happened.
Never mind prophecies and bounty hunters, she was the one who'd really turned my life upside down ... She made everything better.
She was necessary.
Alyxandra Harvey
#6. the safest place to keep your secrets is to keep them in your mind with a locked tongue
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#7. All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much we are missing, of how little we grasp of our own thought process - and how much better we could be if only we'd taken the time to understand and to reflect.
Maria Konnikova
#9. It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable. Compare it to something better - result envy, frustration and sadness. Compare it to something worse - relief, gratitude and happiness.
Roger L'Estrange
#10. Nothing clears a troubled mind better than shooting a bow.
Fred Bear
#11. Kids take work, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears and are a full time job. You have to commit, for better or worse and then give your all and hope for the best. The one thing you can never, ever do is give up and say, 'Oooops, never mind, my bad, you can take this one back!'
Dale Archer
#12. A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a Happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little better for anything else.
John Locke
#13. Maybe it is not a coincidence that, even in heaven, under the perspective of the Bible, there is a hierarchy. After all, what better way to impose the "benefits" of accepting the power of a hierarchy in the human mind?
Miguel Reynolds Brandao
#14. The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.
Charles James
#15. I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.
Brit Marling
#16. Instead of trying to forcefully take thoughts out of your mind, give your mind something better to play with. Something healthier."
"Like what?"
"Like love, Groceries. Like pure divine love.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#17. It was the thumbprints of human imperfection that used to move him, the flaws in the design: the lopsided smile, the wart next to the navel, the mole, the bruise. Was it consolation he'd had in mind, kissing the wound to make it better?
Margaret Atwood
#18. Human beings, as I know better than most, can get used to anything. Over time, even the unthinkable gradually wears a little niche for itself in your mind and becomes just something that happened.
Tana French
#19. The Mozart Effect comes to mind: the popular idea that listening to classical music makes students better at math.
John Medina
#20. A pastry usually tastes better if it looks nice. A cream pastry, now that looks nice - in fact, there is nothing I mind as long as it looks nice.
Arne Jacobsen
#21. Innovation is deviance which means that the rebellious personality is a natural resource for practical creativity. As an innovator, you need to reject the old to establish a new, better, status quo. And one of the most powerful sources of newness is the rebel or maverick, mind.
Max McKeown
#22. While scholarly research provides extensive information, the real Jesus, the man who voiced various timeless insights on life, can only be revealed when life is understood better than the common mindset of our time allows.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#23. I wish I'd paid better attention. I didn't yet think of time as finite. I didn't fully appreciate the stories she told me until I became adult, and by then I had to make do with snippets pasted together, a film projected on the back of my mind.
Jessica Maria Tuccelli
#24. I don't mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I live in New Hampshire. And household help will be much cheaper.
P. J. O'Rourke
#25. If you must belittle others to make yourself feel better, then you should do silently, in your own mind, where only you will suffer from your poison.
Kel Kade
#26. The rain fluctuates between drizzle and torrential. It messes with your mind. It makes you think things will always be like this, never getting better, always letting you down right when you though the worst was over.
Susane Colasanti
#27. I ain't saying you treated me unkind you could've done better, but I don't mind. You just kinda wasted my precious time. But don't think twice, it's alright.
Bob Dylan
#28. People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
Zig Ziglar
#29. I really cherish the memories I have of my trips. For some reason, when you travel, it's like your mind picks up on the fact that this is something uncharacteristic, so it tunes in more acutely and remembers better.
Jennette McCurdy
#30. I'm trying to think of myself at a quiet time. I need to do better with a quiet mind because I'm constantly going and I think that's what feeds me. I've been that way my whole life. But I don't think I picture things so much as I talk them through. Words, words, words. Words and melody.
Kelli O'Hara
#31. Romantic love is pure fantasy. It destroys a woman's common sense; there simply is no place for it within the walls of a rational mind. You're better off eating a plug of chocolate!" Rachel in Small Pleasures: Mya's Story
Darnishia Bolden
#32. The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.
Thomas Jefferson
#33. I feel better in my mind when I work out. It makes everything better.
Keri Russell
#34. I think I've changed a little bit. I don't know whether it's for the better or for the worse at the moment. I've settled into a different mind frame now ... being a bit wilder maybe!
Liam Payne
#35. The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.
Seneca The Younger
#36. The modern mind longs for the future as the medieval mind longed for Heaven. The great aim of modern life has been to improve the future - or even just to reach the future, assuming that the future will inevitably be better.
Wendell Berry
#37. I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature of commissioned work to be written too much from the side of your mind that knows what it's doing, which dries up the poetry.
Andrew Motion
#38. It is important to understand the purpose of criticism. Criticism is not meant to punish, but rather to correct something that is preventing better results. The only goal of criticism or discipline is improvement. You must keep that in mind and try to the best of your ability to use tact.
John Wooden
#39. We humans need to do better with our vast minds and alchemical powers. Future radial poetries might be more symbiotic with the rest of consciousness.
Anne Waldman
#40. The role of empirical work in informing our philosophical theories, as I see it, is not that it gives us a better view of our folk concepts, but that it gives us a better view of knowledge, and the mind, and so on.
Hilary Kornblith
#41. Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.
Ann Voskamp
#42. A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind.
Paul Valery
#43. Perhaps, she had dreamed, she would teach some future King, shaping his child mind for a new and better world.
Margaret Landon
#44. The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#45. I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway.
Sophie Kinsella
#46. A sense of that kind of narrative movement that we experience online could have been in my mind easily, though not consciously. I do rely so much on my unconscious, the way I write my stuff the way I do. I let my unconscious work. I have better ideas that way and more interesting work.
Jennifer Egan
#47. How often do the poor daydream of a better life? Plenty, no doubt, and where does it get them? It is the poor who begin with a daydream and realize at some point that they have to get up, roll their sleeves, and start doing something about those day dreams who succeed. And there are many who have.
Stephen Richards
#48. It might therefore be better for the decentralization to be designed by a centralized authority, with the interest of the less advantaged or less powerful in mind. Power to the people, but not all the power.
Abhijit V. Banerjee
#49. I didn't think you were interested in her looks," taunted Tyndal, feeling cocky. "I thought you lusted for her mind?" "Well, if the mind happens to have . . . a couple of heavy thoughts like that associated with it, all the better!" Rondal blushed. "She's
Terry Mancour
#50. When you favour a woman, she will want to return the favour in so many means, but its better to rupidiate such offerings.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#51. Try to make things that can become better in other people's minds than they were in yours.
Brian Eno
#52. Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.
Amit Ray
#53. Your dreams will come true- If you put your mind to it. Your fantasies not. They only help you imagine that things are better than they really are.
Yalda Walinezjad
#54. She has been better educated than her sister, and has a more receptive mind. It seems as though someone had sown in a bare field a sprinkling of history, poetry, and pictures, and every seed had shot up in a flowery tangle.
Edith Wharton
#55. To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world, is just as base as to use force ... Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
Hypatia
#56. If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas
Robert M. Pirsig
#57. I just feel so good; it feels like a very creative time for me. As far as my mind, spirit, and body, I've never felt better.
Lenny Kravitz
#58. It takes a number of years to learn to hold the mind perfectly in one place. But each day we do it a little better, and in the doing we're releasing energy that is taking our mind in higher diffuse planes of attention.
Frederick Lenz
#59. Things in black and white are far better than things in grey!!
Tripta Arora
#60. It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single glimpse of clean, hard, radiant competence. She had fits of tortured longing for a friend or enemy with a mind better than her own.
Ayn Rand
#61. Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight.
Maria Montessori
#62. Your mind and habits will create either barriers or bridges to a better future.
Al Siebert
#63. Ego is this this higher conscious concept that we have of ourselves and we feel that we must live by it with a closed mind. We can be Self Aware of this concept or purely just blinded. I think the answer to this problem is being Self Aware and changing our current perception for the better.
Matthew Donnelly
#64. In modelling or football, being 30 is very bad. But, for an actress, ageing is like wine. You taste better and better because your body, your mind, your feelings, all this is a tool and it's getting sharper with time.
Ludivine Sagnier
#65. If God be not enough for you, you will never have enough. Turn to him more, and know him better, if you would have a satisfied mind.
-Directions Against Sinful Desires and Discontent.
Richard Baxter
#66. In the realm of ideas, it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.
Robert F. Goheen
#67. I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points of liberty and despotism, something will be gained for the former. As men become better informed, their rulers must respect them the more.
Thomas Jefferson
#68. Hey, Angelo?"
"What?"
"You wanna hang out some time?"
"You Think I got nothin' better to do?"
"It was just a thought, never mind."
"Yeah"
"Yeah, what?"
"Yeah I wanna hang out some time, see you tomorrow Zach
Marie Sexton
#69. It's so free to know that I do not have to compensate or make excuses for being treated poorly in relationships. I can simply move forward knowing I deserve better
Renae A. Sauter
#70. Driving that train, high on cocaine
Casey Jones you'd better watch your speed
Trouble ahead, trouble behind
And you know that notion just crossed my mind
Robert Hunter
#71. You know, it's dangerous to touch me like that." He gazed
down into my eyes.
"You didn't seem to mind."
"That's because I can control myself better than others. You have
a date with danger or something?"
That was an understatement. It was more like death.
Lynn Mullican
#72. Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.
James Ellis
#73. They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse.
Idries Shah
#74. The old Fleetwood Mac was much better; they did some beautiful and, to my mind, very authentic blues. Chicken Shack did pretty well in Europe, but after I left, it was over.
Christine McVie
#75. When you lay your head on the pillow at the end of the night, can you think of three things you did during the day to make your life better? Did you nourish your body? Your spirit? Your mind? If not, get back up and do something that good for YOU.
Toni Sorenson
#76. It's much better to be a tribal writer, writing for all people and reflecting many voices through us, than to be a cloistered being trying to find one peanut of truth in our own individual mind. Become big and write with the whole world in your arms.
Natalie Goldberg
#77. The mind of the experienced book reader is a calm mind, not a buzzing one. When it comes to the firing of our neurons, it's a mistake to assume that more is better.
Nicholas Carr
#78. God doesn't offer his Word as a magic fix-all pill that we can ingest and feel better. Rather, God's Word is the way in which we are invited to encounter the real 'person' of God.
Ken Gire
#79. Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.
Orson Scott Card
#80. The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Albert Schweitzer
#81. I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine.
Vladimir Nabokov
#82. Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
Margaret Oliphant
#83. Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.
Henry Rollins
#84. We'd all be a heap sight better off if we'd forget the highfalutin notions of our fancy civilization and mind more what the savages knew long before us: to honor our mother.
Anonymous
#85. Yet for better or worse we love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#86. An adaptive mind has better learning capability.
Pearl Zhu
#87. You have always and will always be my first. My first love, the first girl I ever kissed, the first girl I ever touched. The mind is a powerful thing, and I know for a fact the fantasy of you will always be better than the reality of anyone else. You are my heart. You are my saviour. You are my sky.
J.B. Hartnett
#88. Emotion is bad if it hinders the mind from thinking. An
emotion that opens the mind to contemplate several
aspects of things at once is better than one that fixes
thought to an obsession.
A.C. Grayling
#89. There's S-VOD, which is 3 1/2 months after the theatrical release. The windows are going to get closer and closer, and the sooner they collapse in my mind the better it'll be for everybody. It's coming, but change is hard. It will be more profitable for everybody, including exhibitors.
Jason Blum
#90. Live in the very soul of expectation of better things, in the conviction that something large, grand, and beautiful will await you if your efforts are intelligent, if your mind is kept in a creative condition and you struggle upward to your goal.
Orison Swett Marden
#91. In so many millennia, the humans never did figurs love out. How much is physical, how much in the mind? How much accident and how much fate? Why did perfect matches crumble and impossible couples thrive? I dont know the answer better than they did. Love simply is where it is.
Stephenie Meyer
#92. Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it.
Jonny Greenwood
#93. It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.
Richard Wilbur
#94. I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.
Ted Turner
#95. California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things better work here, because here, beneath the immense bleached sky,is where we run out of continent.
Joan Didion
#96. In the last few weeks, I had changed. But in my mind, those changes had been for the better. I was finally getting over things, stepping over the careful box I'd drawn around myself all those months ago.
Sarah Dessen
#97. They wanted to teach us the meaning of x in relation to pi, as opposed to helping us better understand ourselves and each other. They wanted us to know when the Magna Carta was signed-never mind what it was-as opposed to discussing birth control.
Jay Asher
#98. An eternity of wisdom and life lies waiting for discovery by those who are willing to embark on the mystical adventure. All of our resources are within us. All we need is our heart, our mind and the will to be something better than we are.
Kim Chestney
#99. I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself.'
Troy Polamalu
#100. It's hard enough to make a film without everyone saying, "Hang on, is this version as good as the one Kubrick would have made?" In peoples' minds they'll always think if Kubrick had done it it would be so much better. You don't need that extra stress.
Chris Cunningham
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