Top 100 Mind Works Quotes
#1. Mental illnesses are so strange. A physical problem we can understand. But when the mind works irrationally, well, by its very definition, the rational mind cannot truly relate.
Harlan Coben
#2. It's so internalized, the way your mind works in relation to anything - it's a process, but then it isn't. It's working all the time.
Aleksandar Hemon
#3. My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.
Virginia Woolf
#4. I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.
Pete Wentz
#5. The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.
Isaac Asimov
#6. The words form the picture in your mind and the mind works towards the fulfillment of the picture.
Daniel Brush
#7. It's the way my mind works, when it works at all. Things to do today: settle down, achieve serenity, live happily ever after. Tick the box and move on.
K.J. Parker
#8. I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop, I cease to think; my mind works only with my legs.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#9. The law of your mind is the law of belief. This means to believe in the way your mind works, to believe in belief itself.
Joseph Murphy
#10. I've concluded, after many years, that my mind works by process of elimination. Problem is, it hasn't eliminated anything yet.
Robert Breault
#11. Computer science is the most misunderstood field there is. You are being paid to solve puzzles. For a person who has practiced meditation in past lives, that is the way your mind works.
Frederick Lenz
#12. A happy heart is good medicine and a cheerful mind works healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. (Proverbs 17:22)
Joyce Meyer
#13. The brisk exercise imparts elasticity to the muscles, fresh and healthy blood circulates through the brain, the mind works well, the eye is clear, the step is firm, and a day's exertion always makes the evening's repose thoroughly enjoyable.
David Livingstone
#14. I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.
A.S. Byatt
#15. I write horror because I enjoy it. I'm endlessly fascinated by the supernatural, by death, by darkness. And, to be honest, I don't have much choice. This is the way my mind works.
Bentley Little
#16. The mind works in such a way that what the person visualizes, he obtains.
Richard Ellsbury
#17. I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works.
Patti Smith
#18. Although your mind works, your heart is
darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and
true consciousness
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#19. Ancestor worship must be an appealing idea to those who are about to become ancestors. - Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works
Daniel C. Dennett
#20. We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine.
Daniel Kahneman
#21. I found maths very easy, but I still enjoyed discovering things. You have to have the necessary information. For example, what's the difference between the mean and the median? Probability fascinated me. You have to think very carefully about things, which is the way my mind works anyway.
Daniel Tammet
#22. The mind works sometimes in life as it does in a dream. It makes substitutions...
Daniel Levine
#23. I've never really been associated with the hackers very much. I am sympathetic to them. I understand how their mind works. It's like a child that is born and wants to explore every little - open up every little drawer there is and find out how the world works.
Steve Wozniak
#24. Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically.
Raymond Pettibon
#25. We all have our essential nature. If you're good with numbers, you don't even know you're good with numbers because that's how your mind works.
Zoe Kazan
#26. Still, your mind works true, and argues not a particulari ad universale.
Bram Stoker
#27. By learning how the mind works, you can dramatically change your experience - regardless of the circumstances of your body.
Jenna Sundell
#28. He may understand teeth, but he has no clue how the mind works.
Derek Taylor Kent
#29. When we look at films, we usually see only the action. Yet it is the decision to act that helps us understand how the character's mind works.
Linda Seger
#30. There is a lushness to how my mind works.
Bell Hooks
#31. My mind works so fast. When I think of something I say it. Lots of times I say it even before I think of it.
Gracie Allen
#33. Your subconscious mind does not argue with you. It accepts what your conscious mind decrees. If you say, "I can't afford it," your subconscious mind works to make it true. Select a better thought. Decree, "I'll buy it. I accept it in my mind."
Joseph Murphy
#34. How the mind works, by what strange paths it pursues memory.
Lance Weller
#35. Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?
Steven Pinker
#36. The unconscious mind works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers.
Milton H. Erickson
#37. knowing how the mind works isn't going to change how your mind works. Even
Alan Deutschman
#38. I don't think you can be taught how to make art. You can be coached, but on a fundamental level you have to figure it out for yourself. You have to learn how your own mind works, figure out your own relationship to the art; you essentially have to invent it completely for yourself.
Philipp Meyer
#39. You feel you've seen a hundred of me. You know how my tiny mind works. But maybe it goes both ways.
Helen Oyeyemi
#40. How Your Own Mind Works You have a mind, and you should learn how to use
Joseph Murphy
#41. The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.
Daniel Kahneman
#42. I know what you're thinking because I know how your mind works."
She imagined giving him the finger. "What am I thinking?"
"You want me to go screw myself."
"Close enough.
Melissa Landers
#43. I love directing. It's where my heart is, and it's the way my mind works.
Melissa Joan Hart
#44. You write five different things, and none of them work, and then suddenly something does, and you ask yourself, 'Why did that last one work?' I think that's the way the artistic mind works. All writers and artists of all kinds often don't know why things work.
Gilbert Morris
#45. My mind works ... two boobs never get me a job.
Erma Bombeck
#46. We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can tell you a lot about how the mind works.
Daniel Kahneman
#47. A Happy Heart is a good medicine & a Positive mind works Healing
JoanneTarah
#48. The similarity was reassuring: the pupil was a good measure of the physical arousal that accompanies mental effort, and we could go ahead and use it to understand how the mind works.
Daniel Kahneman
#49. I've always loved science, as far back as I can remember. I was very, very curious about how everything worked: the world, the physical universe, chemistry, law. So it was only natural to be curious about how our mind works.
Leonard Mlodinow
#50. The best way to know how Virender Sehwag's mind works is to sit next to him in the players' balcony when India are batting. Every few minutes he will clutch his head and yell, 'Chauka gaya' or 'Chhakka gaya'.
Sourav Ganguly
#51. I know in my situation, my mind works more than everything else. I've been like that my whole career.
David Ortiz
#52. When she writes, which isn't often, I get insanely jealous of the way her mind works, the fact that she seems to create for her own pleasure and not to make herself known.
Lena Dunham
#55. Your basic problem is emotional immaturity. You want life to be like in the movies, full of excitement. That's how a child's mind works, but the adults accept regularity, tedium, frustration.
Edward Bunker
#56. Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands.
Sarah Dunant
#57. Thanks to Scoop, I've learned a lot about how the male mind works, and as a result I've been having nightmares for months.
Yvonne Collins
#58. Buddhism is the study of the way the mind works. One has to be able to hold a large number of relational concepts simultaneously in the mind. It is necessary to grid, to literally unlock realities and dimensions with the power of your mind.
Frederick Lenz
#59. Make a decision that from now on, your thoughts do not run you, you run your thoughts. From now on, your mind is not the captain of your ship, you are the captain of the ship, and your mind works for you.
T. Harv Eker
#60. For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.
D.H. Lawrence
#61. People negotiate their way around how a human mind works and find blind points. That's how people steal effectively.
Margot Robbie
#62. The moment you understand the whole Universe, is the moment you slightly begin to understand the way God's mind works
Stephen Hawking
#63. I don't really see, but I like how his mind works in a different way from mine, in a way that could open mine up.
Deborah Meyler
#64. Whatever you eye falls on - for it will fall on what you love - will lead you to the questions of your life, the questions that are incumbent upon you to answer, because that is how the mind works in concert with the eye. The things of this world draw us where we need to go.
Mary Rose O'Reilley
#65. My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures.
Temple Grandin
#66. You get a job when you have the right qualifications and work experience. Similarly, individuals should be allowed to be parents (considering that parenting is a full time job for at least 16 years) only when they completely understand how life/mind works and have implemented it in their lives.
Maddy Malhotra
#67. The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one's mind works - also the more sensitive one becomes to the odors of food.
George S. Clason
#68. Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed. That's why meditation works.
Shirley Maclaine
#69. First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience.
Eleanora Duse
#70. Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is the idea in the mind of the artist, the other is his power of expression; and both these factors are extremely variable.
George Edward Woodberry
#71. I'm a moderate Democrat. I've always been fascinated and maddened by the way things get done in our system, which as an ideal is so extraordinary, but the way it actually works can be mind-boggling.
Tony Goldwyn
#72. Indeed, of the major religions, Islam offers no discernible sliver of valid notion for How Life Works.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#73. It takes a long time to write a book. I'm not going to spend that much time trying to deliver a message. The reason I do it is because I want to understand something myself. It's not a delivery device, it's an inquiry device. Didactic fiction to my mind never works. It backfires.
Ruth Ozeki
#74. And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.
Lance Ito
#75. It works...conditioning your mind to see something positive in anything! Anything that happens to you, anything said to you, anything said about you.I have the choice to INTERPRET it in a way that is positive.Surefire way to imbibe Pollyana attitude !
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#76. Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.
Edmund Burke
#77. Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.
James Mackintosh
#78. I don't mind the government accruing debts as long as every dollar is spent effectively with a high return. That works out fine. If you accumulate debts and waste your money, that's, of course, a disaster.
Jeremy Grantham
#79. God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.
Walter De La Mare
#80. Self-discovery is realistic. It's not built on ideas and philosophies. It's what works. Philosophies are nice if you like philosophies. But self-discovery is predicated on something that really brings you into enlightened states of mind.
Frederick Lenz
#81. The mind is a strange thing: it works in secret. Oftentimes the most important decisions in life are made while you're not paying attention.
Nikolai Grozni
#82. Beliefs and definitions never clarify how Reality works -- they only distort perception of it.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#83. Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents who have worked. The notion of labor is therefore presented to the mind, on every side, as the necessary, natural, and honest condition.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#84. The subjective mind is entirely under the control of the objective mind. With the utmost fidelity it reproduces and works out to its final consequences whatever the objective mind impresses upon it.
Thomas Troward
#85. All work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there, to wake up the soul. The power is inside every man, so is knowing; the different works are like blows to bring them out, to cause these giants to wake up.
Swami Vivekananda
#86. I think a lot of times people design restaurants with flash in mind. I think you should design restaurants with function in mind. Make sure it's functional and works with what you're trying to accomplish. Design can come later.
Bobby Flay
#87. As you gain control of the mind, you gain control of life and you gain control of your time. It all works together.
Frederick Lenz
#88. Without time as a reference, the mind sits idly by and wanders into the ways of dark imaginings and evil works
~Hecate
M.L. Stephens
#89. Speed focuses the mind. It cuts through the fog of drab everyday living and keeps us on our toes. Speed works. Speed saves lives. Speed is good. And we should have more of it, not less.
Jeremy Clarkson
#90. Don't be deceived into thinking that by changing the external, the internal will be changed. It works the other way around; the path that needs changing is the one in your mind.
Susan Jeffers
#91. A closed mind is like a parachute malfunction, a mind like a parachute only works if it is fully open.
Brian Michael Good
#92. I find it a privilege and an honor to be human, for to me, one of the most wondrous and beautiful things in the universe, is found in human form.
Because to be human, is to be able to dream dreams of pyramids and skyscrapers, and majestic works of art that spring from the human mind.
Sara Niles
#93. Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.
Martin Gore
#94. Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.
Jonathan Sacks
#95. I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.
Alistair Cooke
#96. Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was the software, not the hardware, increasingly philosophers have come to recognize that understanding how the brain works is essential to understanding the mind.
Patricia Churchland
#97. You must linger among a limited number of master thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.
Seneca.
#98. Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down,does not destroy it until the mind sinks to the lower grades of idiocy.
Charles Horton Cooley
#99. It is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived, and in solitude that individuality must be affirmed.
Robert M. Lindner
#100. In my mind, as long as I did what was right for me, I was cool. But that's not the way it works. You have to think about other people and take their feelings into account.
Joe Nichols
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