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“The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.”

Men Mind Action Effects Stimulus Juvenile

Book:Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted

Source: Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted

“Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.”

Thinking Want Mind Eye Action Results Powerful Behavior Performers

Author:Charles Garfield

“I refuse to believe today will be just another day in my life. All that I am. All that I will become will be written through my thoughts and my actions. I've conditioned my mind. Trained my body. Sacrificed my soul. There will be obstacles. Doubters. Mistakes. But nothing comes to those who wait. Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.”

Giving Mind Believe Soul Body Today Action Waiting Mistake Written Giving Up Refuse Obstacles My Soul Champion My Thoughts Another Day Doubters Those Who Wait

Author:Kai Greene

“Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action...To remain alive, he must think.”

Thinking Knows Men Mind Body Action Life Is Purpose Given Alive Survival Tools Sustenance

Author:John Galt

“Zen is mind-less activity, that is, Mind-ful activity, and it may often be advisable to emphasize the mind, and say, Take care of the thoughts and the actions will take care of themselves.”

Mind May Care Action Activity Take Care Often Is Advisable

Book:Zen in English literature and oriental classics

Source: Zen in English literature and oriental classics

“Wisdom is not book learning but, rather, a quality or state of knowing what is true or right coupled with the judgment to discern constructive action. Wisdom is the insight and intuition contained in the proverbial still, small voice that only a quiet mind can hear and know.”

Knows Mind Stills Book States Wisdom Action Voice Quality Knowing Quiet Judgment Insight Intuition Constructive Proverbial Small Voice Book Learning

Book:The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart

Source: The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart

“Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.”

Mind Heart Character Action Desire Knowing Psychology Habit Integrity Mindset Good Character Good Habits

Book:Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

Source: Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

“Training in compassion is a mental activity. but our mind should also be brought to the level where every action we take is influenced by compassion. That means engaging ourselves in compassion in action.”

Should Mind Mean Action Levels Compassion Activity Training Engaging

Author:Gelek Rimpoche

“The state of mind that you are in causes you to act in a certain way. Your actions will bear results. The ultimate result of all karmas and actions is state of mind. You are your state of mind.”

Way Mind States Action Certain Causes Results Bears Ultimate Karma State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Karma means that through your thoughts and feelings and actions, you are generating a state of mind. That state of mind has a view. That view will cause things to happen to you or not happen to you.”

Mind Mean States Feelings Happens Action Causes Views Karma State Of Mind Thoughts And Feelings

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Selfless actions create a higher karma, which brings you into higher states of mind. When you are in higher states of mind you will see things that you never saw before.”

Mind States Action Saws Higher Karma State Of Mind Selfless Karma Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is the elimination or neutralization of the independent individual- the independent voter, consumer, worker, owner, thinker- and that every device they employ aims at turning men into a manipulable animated instrument which is Aristotle's definition of a slave.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“Buddhism does not accept a theory of God, or a creator. According to Buddhism, one's own actions are the creator, ultimately. Some people say that, from a certain angle, Buddhism is not a religion but rather a science of mind.”

People Mind Doe Action Certain Religion Accepting Theory Buddhism Creator Angle Science Of Mind

Author:Dalai Lama

“O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure. This is where human discourse turns toward the contemplation of the divine.”

Mind Humans Action Turns Language Powerful Divine Contemplation Discourse Penetrate Admirable

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.”

Men Mind Action Faces Crime Pure Appearance Former Operations Motive Latter

Book:Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

“I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.”

Mind Action Turns Events Perfection Beloved

Author:Stendhal

“Your subconscious mind makes all your words and actions fit a pattern consistent with your self-concept and your innermost beliefs about yourself.”

Mind Self Action Belief Fit Concepts Patterns Consistent About Yourself Subconscious Subconscious Mind Belief In Self Words And Actions Self Concept

Book:Universal Laws of Success

Source: Universal Laws of Success

“Food conditions the nature of the mind. Mind guides the thinking. Thinking results in action. Actions lead to commensurate or matching results and effects. This chain of action between the food we eat and the results of our actions highlights the fact that meat eating leads to beastly actions and the concomitant evil effects.”

Thinking Mind Facts Action Evil Results Conditions Effects Eating Guides Chains Meat Our Actions Highlights Matching Beastly Meat Eating

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.”

Men Mind Action Universe Machines Response Determine Organs Our Actions Stimulus

Book:My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography

Source: My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography

“Everyone who comes within the reach of your knowledge is, as it were, on trial in your mind. It is easy to be an unjust, ignorant, and even a merciless judge. The real character of the actions of others depends in great measure on the motives that prompt them, and these motives are unknown to you.”

Mind Real Character Action Motivation Easy Judging Depends Trials Ignorant Motive Unjust Prompts Real Character

Book:The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time

Source: The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time

“Can someone eat the fruit that comes from the tree of action that grows from the seeds of your mind?”

Mind Art Action Grows Tree Fruit Seeds

Author:Eugene J. Martin

“Creative action plays with the unknown. But as the child fears the dark... the adult child will be fearful too, faced with the dark world of the unknown mind, with vast concepts looking enormous just beyond the front yard.”

World Mind Children Play Action Fear Dark Creative Fronts Concepts Adults Enormous Fearful Yards Dark World Adult Children

Author:Arthur J. Deikman

“The positive thinker, on the contrary, constantly sends out positive thoughts, together with vital mental images of hope, optimism and creativity. He therefore activates the world around him positively and strongly tends to draw back to himself positive results. This, too, is a basic law of mind action.”

World Mind Action Together Law Results Creativity Positive Draws Optimism Contrary Thinker Positive Thoughts Positively Activate Positive Results Positive Thinker

Book:The Positive Principle Today

Source: The Positive Principle Today

“In most instances, the driving force behind the action is the mood, the personality, the attitude of the character - or all three. Therefore, the mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.”

Thinking Life Mind Doe Character Body Action Three Force Behinds Attitude Greatness Personality Driving Mood Instance Pilots Driving Force

Author:Walt Disney

“Our mind is the foundation of all our actions, whether they are actions of body, speech, or mind, i.e., thinking. Whatever we think, say, or do arises from our mind. What our consciousness consumes becomes the substance of our life, so we have to be very careful which nutriments we ingest.”

Thinking Mind Body Motivational Action Consciousness Our Lives Speech Foundation Careful Arise Substance Our Actions

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Whenever you engage in a selfless action that contributes to the welfare of others, this will create a vibratory pattern that will lead you into higher states of mind.”

Mind States Action Higher Yoga Patterns Karma Welfare State Of Mind Selfless Karma Yoga Right Action

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Success is a state of mind, waiting for action.”

Inspirational Mind States Action Waiting State Of Mind

Author:Jon Jones

“Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives.”

Mind Action Existence Perception Perceive Nothingness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Concentration and mindfulness are the internal ways in which the mind restores itself from being out of balance and lost in confusion to a condition of ease, clarity, and wisdom. No external action needs to happen.”

Way Needs Mind Happens Action Lost Conditions Balance Mindfulness Confusion Clarity Ease Internals Concentration

Book:Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life

Source: Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life

“The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.”

Ifs Needs Mind Two Action Hours Duty Flow Currents Midst

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned-that of any achievements open to you, the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character-that your character, your actions, your desires, your emotions are the products of the premises held by your mind.”

Men Mind Character Facts Action Desire Values Emotion Creation Products Pride Achievement Highest Recognition Premises

Author:John Galt

“Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.”

Mind Action Resistance Positively

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:--for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty, man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.”

Source: Lectures Upon Shakspeare

“Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the irresistible effect - to intoxicate, or overwhelm. They looked to analysis to provide them with the keyboard on which to play, with certainty, on man's emotions, and they sought in abstract meditation they key to sure and certain action upon their subject - man's nervous and psychic being.”