Turn Your Mind Off Quotes

#1. There is nothing simpler than carrying out the impossible. You just have to imagine what you must do, and turn your mind off completely, When you come to your senses, everything is already behind you.

Max Frei

#2. If you teach three university courses a day, you need something to turn your mind off.

Coleman Barks

#3. Anything you don't understand, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.

Carl Sagan

#4. Faith is not in your head. Faith is in your heart. Sometimes you have to turn your mind off and listen to your heart.

Joel Osteen

#5. You know why you are doing something. And if it is against your life, your principles and ideals it is bothersome. And no one wants to be bothered. So you conveniently try to curtain it off, turn a blind eye, and put it out of sight so that it won't bother you. This is what the Mind does.

Chidananda Saraswati

#6. even if you turn off the TV, the TV in your mind continues to run. So you have to also stop the TV in your head.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#7. Turn off your mind, and focus on what you've got to do - task at hand.

Tony Horton

#8. Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream.

Timothy Leary

#9. Abjure all accretions and turn off the lights. Put on some music - Leonard Cohen, say, perhaps his 'Various Positions' - and let your mind cool down. Soon you'll forget there's a word called 'stress.'

Pico Iyer

#10. To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.

Ramana Maharshi

#11. If your mind goes blank, don't forget to turn off the sound.

Steven Smith

#12. You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.

Dogen

#13. Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.

John Lennon

#14. I come from a land afar and a land up high. My abilities are only eclipsed by my excellent turn of phrase and if you open your mind, they could be your abilities too.

Thomas William Shaw

#15. Math. Are you able to turn off your mind to the world and fill it with symbols that follow rules?

Ned Vizzini

#16. Nothing affects the heart like that which is purely from itself, and of its own nature; such as the beauty of sentiments, the grace of actions, the turn of characters, and the proportions and features of a human mind.

Anthony Ashley Cooper

#17. Don't mind being as miserable as you like with me - I have a great turn that way myself - [VW]

Vita Sackville-West

#18. Perchance you shall, fair sir," said Nigel, "for all that I have seen of you fills me with this desire to go further with you. It is in my mind that we might turn this thing to profit and to honour, for when Sir Robert has spoken to you, I am free to do with you as I will.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#19. Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him.

Oswald Chambers

#20. Lay still the business of the mind. Let its workers put down their tools and turn to face the glory of the midday Sun.

Martin Cosgrove

#21. People might think you can turn creativity on and off,
but it's not like that. It just kind of comes out. A mash up of all these things you collect in your mind. You never know when it's gonna happen, but when it does ... it's like magic.
It's just that simple and it's just that hard.

Gwen Stefani

#22. The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Lewis Mumford

#23. If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn't turn off. For years I've kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you.

Anne Sweeney