Occupy Mind Quotes

#1. The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.

Norman Vincent Peale

#2. Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.

Thomas More

#3. The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region ... They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men.

Saint Augustine

#4. In the mind of the Indian public, journalists currently occupy a position of respect somewhere between pond scum and Ebola virus.

Sidin Vadukut

#5. If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity.

Charles Horton Cooley

#6. Keep a vigil on those who push you down always and leave them alone. Stay away from them so that you don't waste your precious time refuting them, trying to impress them or proving your point to them. Let them not occupy any free space in your mind.

Sanchita Pandey

#7. You are the one who must decide whose thoughts you will entertain. You are free to choose-but you are not free to alter the consequences of those choices. You will be what you think about what you consistently allow to occupy the stage of your mind.

Ezra Taft Benson

#8. Just as you wouldn't allow a destructive stranger into your home, don't allow harmful, unchecked thoughts to occupy space in your mind.

Shannon Tanner

#9. I prefer poems that occupy an imaginative sphere. When I lived in Cincinnati, I was occasionally referred to as an "Ohio Poet;" this made me uneasy, not only because I think of myself as a generally American poet but also because I like to think I write out of the country of my own mind.

Cate Marvin

#10. To occupy yourself with tasks that are useful to yourself and others, you can get your mind off your problems.

Frederick Lenz

#11. As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.

Isabelle Holland

#12. This is a half-life, a split purgatory where her body and mind coexist but occupy separate realities.

Bill Clegg

#13. Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

Pawan Kalyan

#14. Every man is what he is, because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind.

Napoleon Hill

#15. Ree sat chilled inside her squat tent. To occupy her mind, she decided to name all the Miltons: Thump, Blond, Catfish, Spider, Whoop, Rooster, Scrap ... Lefty, Dog, Punch, Pinkeye, Momsy ... Cotton, Hog-jaw, Ten Penny, Peashot ...

Daniel Woodrell

#16. It is an ancient belief, going back to classical antiquity, that specialization of any kind is illiberal in a freeman. A man willing to bury himself in the details of some small endeavor has been considered lost to these larger considerations which must occupy the mind of the ruler.

Richard M. Weaver

#17. Put your mind where your body is. One day at a time forces you to reckon with the instant you actually occupy, rather than living in fantasy la-la that never comes.

Mary Karr

#18. Forget the rain.Only losers pay attention to the weather because they have nothing else to occupy their mind.

K.J. Kilton

#19. Task switching is hard because we do not control what is on our mind. Despite our efforts, the original task continues to occupy our mental bandwidth. Although we can control where our time goes, we cannot fully control how our bandwidth is allocated.

Sendhil Mullainathan

#20. I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going.

Terry Pratchett

#21. If you knew that you only had one day to live, what would you think about-your car or favorite pair of shoes or would it be the more everyday joys that occupy your mind?

Kristine Carlson

#22. I wanted to make sure the last chapters of my life were full, and painting, it turns out, has helped occupy not only space but opened my mind.

George W. Bush

#23. May you occupy your mind with positive words.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man's course of action.

David O. McKay

#25. If we don't occupy ourself with everything, then peaceful mind will have nowhere to abide.

Shenhui

#26. Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.

Edmund Burke

#27. Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.

Anita Desai

#28. Occupy your thoughts with purpose and you will be so busy pursuing a meaningful future there will be no time for doubt, chaos and disappointment.

Carlos Wallace

#29. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.

Maya Angelou

#30. It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#31. You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy.

Don Roff

#32. Hacking was the only entertainment that would occupy my mind - like a huge video game, but with real consequences. I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.

Kevin Mitnick

#33. ... Boredom [is] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself.

Nancy Kress

#34. Nothing should so occupy the mind of the Christian than discovering God each day.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#35. No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society

Irving Howe

#36. When in doubt, when flat on your back, you can look at the ceiling. Who knows what you may see, up there? Funeral wreaths and angels, constellations of dust, stellar or otherwise, the puzzles left by spiders. There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

Margaret Atwood

#37. When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.

Elizabeth Fry

#38. Each of us is what we are because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which we permit to occupy our mind. Thoughts

Napoleon Hill

#39. Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.

Napoleon Hill

#40. Rejecting all organs of informationbut my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical so uselessly occupy and disquiet the mind.

Thomas Jefferson

#41. What I would really love to happen to me would be if I came upon an idea that would keep me busy until I die so I wouldn't have to go through the business of thinking up a new book. But I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life.

Philip Roth