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“There is a kind, I might almost say, of artistic satisfaction, when we are able to survey the enormous wealth of Nature as a regularly ordered whole a kosmos, an image of the logical thought of our own mind.”

Mind Kind Whole Might Able Wealth Satisfaction Enormous Artistic Logical Surveys

Source: Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects

“The conscious mind is a maelstrom of fleeting thoughts, images, sensations, feelings, conflicting desires, and doubts; barely able to confine its attention to a single clear objective for a microsecond before secondary thoughts begin to adulterate it and provoke yet further trains of mental discourse. If you do not believe this, then attempt to confine your conscious attention to the dot at the end of this sentence without involving yourself in any other form of thinking, including thinking about the dot.”

“Those who think through possible outcomes with discipline, forge connections, in so doing, to other cosmi in which those outcomes are more than mere possibilities. Such a consciousness is measurably, quantitatively different from one that has not undertaken the same work and so, yes, is able to make correct decisions in an Emergence where an untrained mind would be of little use.”

Thinking Mind Littles Different Use Would Be Able Decision Consciousness Possibility Discipline Connections Mere Outcomes Emergence

Book:Anathem

Source: Anathem

“One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born. The innkeeper was not hostile; he was not opposed to them, but his inn was crowded; his hands were full; his mind was preoccupied. This is the answer that millions are giving today. Like a Bethlehem innkeeper, they cannot find room for Christ. All the accommodations in their hearts are already taken up by other crowding interests. Their response is not atheism. It is not defiance. It is preoccupation and the feeling of being able to get on reasonably well without Christianity.”

“This is the path of prayer-contemplative prayer, that is, as distinct from simple prayers of supplication and thanksgiving-which is a specific discipline of thought, desire, and action, one that frees the mind from habitual prejudices and appetites, and allows it to dwell in the gratuity and glory of all things. As an old monk on Mount Athos once told me, contemplative prayer is the art of seeing reality as it truly is; and, if one has not yet acquired the ability to see God in all things, one should not imagine that one will be able to see God in himself.”

“Value investing requires a great deal of hard work, unusually strict discipline, and a long-term investment horizon. Few are willing and able to devote sufficient time and effort to become value investors, and only a fraction of those have the proper mind-set to succeed.”

Mind Long Hard Able Values Term Deals Effort Willing Hard Work Discipline Succeed Investment Investing Long Term Sufficient Horizon Investors Strict Fractions Mind Set

Author:Seth Klarman

“For most people the prohibitions are a good thing. But If you are able to maintain very powerful states of mind, then you'll find yourself in everything you see.”

People Ifs Mind States Philosophy Able Powerful Good Things Finding Yourself State Of Mind Very Powerful Prohibition

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Having the competitive edge to be able to succeed is having control of your time, life and mind.”

Mind Able Success Careers Buddhism Succeed Edges

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I say then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. This variety of terms, which may seem so unphilosophical, is intended only to express that act of the mind, which renders realities, or what is taken for such, more present to us than fictions, causes them to weigh more in the thought, and gives them a superior influence on the passions and imagination.”

Source: Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition

“I think, even a lot of people that make movies forget is that, in my mind, a movie should work with the sound off. You should be able to watch a movie without the sound and understand what's going on. That's your job, to build a series of chronological images that tell the story.”

People Thinking Should Mind Stories Able Jobs Sound Forget Watches Series

Author:Channing Tatum

“As we get older it is our short term memory that fades rather than our long term memory. Perhaps we have evolved like this so that we are able to tell the younger generation about the stories and experiences that have formed us which may be important to subsequent generations if they are to thrive.I worry though, about what might happen to our minds if most of the stories we hear are about greed, war, and atrocity”

Ifs Mind May Long Important War Stories Might Happens Able Term Memories Worry Generations Greed Long Term Thrive Fades Short Term Atrocities Younger Generation Short Term Memory

Book:How to Stay Sane

Source: How to Stay Sane

“It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.”

Mind Able Conflict Mark Superiors Manners Disagree Disagreeable

Book:The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually

Source: The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually

“A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind.”

Ifs Writing Mind Has Beens Seems Able Lasts Found Natural Simple Effort Expression Ought Good Authors

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.”

Mind Able Talent Habit Proof Senses Recalls

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that.”

Thinking Mind I Can Facts Reality Running Able Used Language Design College Tests Equipment Virtual Reality Livestock

Author:Temple Grandin

“Every star knows you step on some toes to get where you're going - and some more after you get there. Nobody means to hurt anybody else, it just happens. You always keep saying in the back of your mind that one day you will be able to right all the wrongs. That someday almost never comes.”

Knows Mind Mean Happens Able Stars Hurt Steps One Day Hollywood Someday Toes

Author:Jayne Mansfield

“You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.”

Men Mind War Able Song Given All Things Deeds Wide One Man Zeus Lead In Good Mind

Author:Homer

“I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.”

Thinking Writing Mind Hands Able Left Dues Complaining Engaged Of My Mind Personal Relationships Left Hand

Author:Rebecca West

“Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.”

Mind Humans Able Desire Simple Effort Clear Figures Demand Gains Roots Manage Motive Sole Penetrate

Book:The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind

Source: The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind

“Mind is the creator of everything. You should therefore guide it to create only good. If you cling to a certain thought with dynamic will power, it finally assumes a tangible outward form. When you are able to employ your will always for constructive purposes, you become the controller of your destiny.”

Source: The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness

“What stops you killing yourself when you're intoxicated out of your mind is the thought that once you're dead you won't be able to drink any more.”

Mind Able Drink Drinking Killing Alcoholism Killing Yourself Intoxicated

Book:Practicalities

Source: Practicalities

Thinking Mind Facts Feelings Able Expression Statements Confused Personal Feelings So Confused

Book:Mind of the Maker

Source: Mind of the Maker

“We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any attempt to synthesis, without the humility to see that these are only parts of a total knowledge. ... But somehow we ought to be able to keep the idea of the totality of experience and knowledge at the back of our minds even though the front's busy from morning til night with the life cycle of the liver fluke.”

Mind Ideas Able Night Knowledge Morning Psychology Fronts Humility Ought Sacred Busy Definitions Cycles Division Cosmology Totality Liver Synthesis Specialization Flukes Archeology

Author:Maureen Duffy

“Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction.”

Mind Has Beens Body Able Humanity Drug Addiction Tyranny Mind And Body Drug Addiction Drug Addict

Author:Freda Adler

“Not being able to address the attribution of change in the early 20th century to my mind precludes any highly confident attribution of change in the late 20th century.”

Mind Able Century Late Addresses 20th Century Attribution

Author:Judith Curry

“I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians apart. My songs bring images to the listener's mind. The object is to transport my listeners to another place, some place sacred and spiritual that will make them glad they took the ride.”

Writing Mind Firsts Able Spiritual Song Objects Musician Sacred Glad Memorable Melody Composer Listeners Always Believe Transport

Author:Bradley Joseph

“The house has to be clean and in order because I have to be able to sift through the creative disorder in my mind. The mental disorder that I'm exploring has to bounce off the walls. It has to go in and out of different rooms. If the room is not in order, then I can't distinguish which is which, and that really drives me crazy.”

Ifs Mind I Can Different Able Order House Rooms Creative Crazy Wall Clean Disorder Exploring Bounce Mental Disorder Drive Me Crazy Off The Wall

Author:Alexis De Veaux

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