“Cognitive states of mind are seldom addictive, since they depend upon exploration of the world, and the individual encounter with the individual object, whose appeal is outside the subject's control. Addiction arises when the subject has full control over a pleasure and can ponder it at will. It is primarily a matter of sensory pleasure, and involves a kind of short-circuiting of the pleasure network. Addiction is characterized by a loss of the emotional dynamic that would otherwise govern an outward-directed, cognitively creative life.” WorldMindKindMatterStatesIndividualLossPleasureCreativeSubjectsObjectsEmotionalDependsAddictionAriseAppealsEncountersExplorationState Of MindPonderingCognitiveSensoryCreative Life Author:Roger Scruton
“I use colors that have already been experienced through the light of day and through the state of mind of the total man. In other words, my colors are not colors that are laboratory tools which are isolated from all accidentals or impurities so that they have a specified identity or purity.” MenMindStatesUseLightIdentityColorToolsPurityState Of MindIsolatedLaboratoryImpurity Author:Mark Rothko
“Sometimes, the only way to learn something really well is to revert to the state of mind of a novice and reawaken to the raw observations that you have accumulated instead of relying on the conclusions you have reached from the exogenous premises absorbed through teaching and bookish learning.” WayMindWellsSometimesStatesTeachingConclusionObservationState Of MindPremisesNovices Author:Erik Naggum
“Success is a an attitude and state of mind where I feel the exhilaration of knowing that I made a difference for many, did this doing what I love, and maing alot of money in the process so I get to experience many things in this extraordinary world. The most important part of success is a deep knowing that I made a difference for others.” WorldFeelsMindMadeImportantStatesProcessDifferencesAttitudeKnowingExtraordinaryState Of MindExhilaration Author:Nancy Fox
“Your culture demands that you bring some kind of crisis to your work and therefore you can not bring any unity to it. In order to bring crisis into your work you have to bring it to a state of expectancy. In other words you have to leave your work in the state of mind of being a question.” MindKindStatesOrderCultureDemandCrisisUnityState Of MindCan NotExpectancy Author:Milton Resnick
“Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.” ShouldMindStatesMeditationAwarenessMindfulnessWorshipConstantState Of MindNeglectedExcluded Author:Ramakrishna
“It is the state of mind of the person wielding the instrument that determines to what end it will be put.” MindPersonsEndsStatesInstrumentsDetermineState Of MindPrudence Author:Dalai Lama
“Each individual work serves as an expression of our most personal state of mind at that particular moment and of the inescapable, imperative need for release by means of an appropriate act of creation: in the rhythm, form, colour and mood of a picture.” NeedsMindMeanStatesMomentsFormIndividualCreationParticularExpressionMoodRhythmReleaseColourAppropriateState Of MindImperativesIndividual Work Author:Lyonel Feininger
“Hell is not a place, it's a state of mind and body; hell is obsession with a voice, a face, a name.” MindStatesBodyFacesNamesVoiceHellObsessionState Of MindMind And Body Author:Susan Kay