"Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive."
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"You gotta be willing to fail...if you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far."
"I never make my mind up about anything at all, until it's over and done with."
"Faith is indispensable for success. Faith is induced and strengthened by the instructions you give your subconscious mind."
"When you do not know what to do or which way to turn, smile. This will relax your mind and let the sunshine of happiness into your soul."
"Every mind needs friendly contact with other minds, for food of expansion and growth."
"The subconscious mind is more susceptible to influence by impulses of thought mixed with 'feeling' or emotion, than by those originating solely in the reasoning portion of the mind."
"Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds."
"The Creator gave us the complete, unchallengable right of prerogative over the one thing, and only thing we own, our mind."
"Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind."
"The mind requires regular use to remain strong."
"If you compromise with your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind."
"What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve."
"Men have no confidence in an officer who doesn't know his own mind."
"All personal achievement starts within the mind of the individual-knowing your problem is the first step in finding the solution."
"Whatever your mind can conceive, you can achieve."
"Faith is a state of mind which may be induced, or created, by affirmation or repeated instructions to the subconscious mind, through the principle of auto-suggestion ."
"The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally."
"Our minds hurtled outward in all directions. We became absurdly creative, Homo artifactus, intolerant of bare cave walls and naked clay pots."
"Don't say you love somebody and then change your mind ... Love isn't like picking what movie you want to watch."