Scattered Mind Quotes

#1. A scattered mind will produce scattered results.

Dana Gore

#2. What good is a prepared body if you have a scattered mind?

Veronica Roth

#3. Create a great future. Be happy NOW.

Thomas Flindt

#4. I'm used to writing and performing my own material; doing someone else's is refreshing.

Rhys Thomas

#5. Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

Karl Kraus

#6. He was drifting, I could hear it in his voice. He always fell asleep as easily as some great lazing cat, he only had to close his eyes and moments later he'd be gone, while my own mind kept on whirring round with scattered thoughts and images.

Susanna Kearsley

#7. The mind that has not been developed or trained is very scattered. That's the normal state of affairs, but it leaves us out of touch with a great deal in life, including our bodies.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#8. To run to anything else is to resist the irresistible. To seek other than The One (al Wahid), is to become scattered, but never filled. How can we find unity, completion of heart or soul or mind in anything other than Him?

Yasmin Mogahed

#9. Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#10. Beautiful, that's what you got to do with that hurtin', you got to turn it beautiful.

A.S. Peterson

#11. Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library.

Laurel Lea

#12. The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.

Baruch Spinoza

#13. In dreams the mind is constantly giving you substitutes just to protect sleep. And the same is happening while you are awake. The mind is giving you substitutes just to protect your sanity; otherwise you will be scattered in fragments.

Rajneesh

#14. I lay still for a while, picking up the scattered garments of my mind and trying to assemble some kind of reasonable outfit from them.

Richard K. Morgan

#15. Long, dark, and lovely she had been, in those days before her mind broke and the parts scattered and she let them go.

Daniel Woodrell

#16. If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless. Distraction here and there opens the way for counterproductive emotions, leading to many kinds of trouble.

Dalai Lama XIV

#17. I have nieces and nephews that I love hanging out with, and they think I'm the biggest goof on the planet.

Eliza Dushku

#18. Writing means organizing your thoughts. If your mind is scattered, your writing is scattered. If your mind is focused, your writing will be clear. Then your reader will say, 'Yes, I get it.

Robert Peate

#19. The causal body holds the structure. The causal body is the coding. So you are not just scattered all over the ten thousand states of mind.

Frederick Lenz

#20. The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.

Jonathan Swift

#21. I've changed my mind. I've decided that at the end I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered over someone I don't like.

J. Michael Straczynski

#22. Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things ... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.

Woodrow Wilson

#23. There are ghosts of yourself scattered everywhere,
Whispers of a moment suspended in time,
Where every life that you've brushed up against
Now lives with a piece of you trapped in their mind.

Erin Hanson

#24. Hers was that common insularity of mind that makes human creatures believe that their color, creed, and politics are best and right and that other human creatures scattered over the world are less fortunately placed than they.

Jack London

#25. I try not to think that death might really just be losing one's mind forever. So scattered that it never comes back.

J.R. Rain

#26. Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.

Jim Morrison

#27. If you focus the rays of the sun through a lens, they can burn cotton or a piece of paper; but, the scattered rays cannot do this act. If you collect the dissipated rays of the mind and focus them at a point, you will have wonderful concentration.

Sivananda