Quotes About The Mind Over Matter

#1. But the expression that just past over her face said it all. Anita was trying to forget something dreadful, something that just kept on pushing itself to the surface of her mind no matter what she did.

Dana Reed

#2. Mind has no matter or energy but they can't escape its predominance over everything they do. Logic exists in the mind. Numbers exist only in the mind.

Robert M. Pirsig

#3. If I could have one superpower, I'd want to have the power of mind over matter. I'd want to be able to move things and people with my mind.

Shaun Alexander

#4. My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Oscar Wilde

#5. Since you've come all the way over here to tell me, I have a distinct feeling it doesn't matter if I do or not. Anyway, go right ahead. Add a prelude, if you'd like. And a 'Dance of the Blessed Spirits.' I don't mind.

Haruki Murakami

#6. Mind over matter represents the triumph of will over physical hindrance. Our thoughts are our weapon against the world.

David Adam

#7. [To learn] is to harness Nature; to spare man all that is most physical, backbreaking, and brutish in the work of production; to make mind master over matter.

Frederic Bastiat

#8. Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.

Lev Grossman

#9. In order to build continuity and momentum in the meditation practice, you will need to keep reminding yourself to come back to the breath over and over again, no matter what the mind is up to from one moment to the next.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#10. An affirmation is almost like a mantra. It does not really matter if what you are affirming is not totally true as yet. By repeating an affirmation over and over again, it becomes embedded in the subconscious mind, and eventually it becomes your reality.

Stuart Wilde

#11. She was keen on the idea that a strong mind, enforced with a strong will, could overcome any difficulty.

Karen Essex

#12. Positive thought waves Can Work Wonders ... It's Called Mind over matter. Start Projecting The life you Want To Live & Then Go Out and Live It!

Timothy Pina

#13. This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter.

Robert Fulghum

#14. The difference between my world record and many world class runners is mental fortitude. I ran believing in mind over matter.

Derek Clayton

#15. Let the parent ask "Why?" and the child produce the answer, if he can. After he has turned the matter over in his mind, there is no harm in telling him - and he will remember it - the reason why.

Charlotte Mason

#16. On the way there hoop had talked to him about pain, telling him that it was a fleeting thing, a physical reaction to damage that he knew would do him no harm, and that afterward he wouldn't actually be able to remember what the pain. Had felt like.

Tim Lebbon

#17. Mind over matter, will make the Pooh unfatter.

A.A. Milne

#18. The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter ... The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.

George Gilder

#19. Like writing, running is so much about mind over matter. There are times when you have to override the discomfort and keep pushing. That capacity to endure and then prevail is just amazing.

Susan Orlean

#20. The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Seneca The Younger

#21. But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

Vanessa Mae

#22. Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#23. The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and irrational

Steve Allen

#24. I just read anything I could find. Fairy tales and mysteries and history and poetry. It didn't matter what it was. I would read it over and over and over again. The books, they helped keep me from losing my mind all together.

Tahereh Mafi

#25. Pain was a difficult concept to conjure in memory, Hoop had said. Like tasting the best cake ever. Such thoughts only really meant anything when the tasting-or the pain- was happening.

Tim Lebbon

#26. Before a brain can register a thought, a mind must think it ... every step of the way is mind over matter ... We override our brains all the time.

Deepak Chopra

#27. No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.

A. Ray Olpin

#28. This is a mind over matter thing. We have to find it within ourselves to play for two hours. We love the game, so it's not like we're doing something we hate. We're doing something we love.

Kay Yow

#29. Protestantism has actually put a man in the position of a country governed by secret police. The spy and eavesdropper, 'conscience,' watches over every motion of the mind, and all thought and action is for it a 'matter of conscience,' i.e. police business.

Max Stirner

#30. Mind over matter in any form is a terrific drain on the body's resources.

Stephen King