Quotes About Beginner's Mind

#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. One of the first things Catholic school taught me is that babies were born sinners. You sucked before you took your first breath.

Lizz Winstead

#17. 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

#18. What the war did to the dreamers.

Anthony Doerr

#19. Then he spoke of James Joyce. He told about Joyce's family, his religion, his education, his writing. He spoke of a book called Dubliners and a story in the book titled "Ivy Day in the Committee Room." Regardless of race, regardless of class, that story was universal, he said.

Ernest J. Gaines

#20. The Spirit of God breathes inspiration, while the carnal mind breeds vanity.

Fred C. White

#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. keep me comfortable." "He must have been a kind man too." Margie's round face melted into a buttery

Angela Elwell Hunt

#24. 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

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

Shunryu Suzuki

#26. You see," said Father Brown in low but easy tone, "Scotch people before Scotland existed were a curious lot. In fact, they're a curious lot still. But in the prehistoric times I fancy they really worshipped demons. That," he added genially, "is why they jumped at the Puritan theology.

G.K. Chesterton

#27. 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

#28. The tears come to my eyes so fast, there's just no way to stop them.

Jonathan Tropper

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. The reality that on every morning brand-new mercy greets us is not the thing that grips our minds as we frenetically prepare for our day.

Paul David Tripp