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"Here is a most significant fact-the subconscious mind takes any orders given it in a spirit of absolute FAITH, and acts upon those orders, although the orders often have to be presented over and over again, through repetition, before they are interpreted by the subconscious mind."
"Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. Here the law of HABIT will come to your aid. Form the habit of applying and using the positive emotions! Eventually, they will dominate your mind so completely, that the negatives cannot enter it."
"Faith is the head chemist of the mind."
"A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created."
"No two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind"
"A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith."
"No two minds ever come together without a third invisible force, which may be likened to a 'third mind.' When a group of individual minds are coordinated and function in harmony, the increased energy created through that alliance becomes available to every individual in the group."
"The mind attracts the thing it dwells upon."
"Power grows out of Organized Knowledge, but mind you, it grows out of it, through Application and Use."
"We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts."
"If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. Besides, those voices are merely guardians and demons protecting the real treasure, the first thoughts of the mind."
"I don't mind if I have to sit on the floor at school. All I want is education. And I'm afraid of no one."
"I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio."
"My life is based on change. What I say is OK for the next ten minutes, then I change my mind."
"I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more."
"A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved."
"Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind."
"Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind."
"The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report."
"Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace."
