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"Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved."
"You have absolute control over just one thing, your thoughts. This divine gift is the sole means by which you may control your destiny. If you fail to control your mind, you will control nothing else."
"Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority."
"A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind's eye."
"When you close the door of your mind to negative thoughts, the door of opportunity opens to you."
"Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind."
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."
"Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!"
"If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms."
"You will never be greater than the thoughts that dominate your mind"
"The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never."
"The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become."
"That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly and sharply in their mind, so that they can actually "feel it work." They want to try their first idea right off; and the result is they use up lots of money and lots of good material, only to find eventually that they are working in the wrong direction. We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin."
"It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win."
"It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds."
"The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to find his way. We proceed much the same when we divide the earth by meridians and parallels, for only thus do we obtain fixed points which we can bring into a relationship with one another."
"Nothing is confused except the mind."
"Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind"
"Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness."
"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."
