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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
Mind

"The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable."

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Robert Adams Photographer
Mind

"Again the important point to remember is that you should keep asking yourself questions. Do not make statements. Ask questions to yourself. The mind hates that."

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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Spiritual Leader
Mind

"If there are ripples on the surface of a lake, we cannot see the depth. Similarly unless the mind is restful, we cannot experience the harmony and union within us."

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Steve Jobs Entrepreneur
Mind

"Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them."

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Susan Cain Author, Speaker
Mind

"The next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the power of quiet."

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Shel Silverstein Poet, Songwriter, Author
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"If you're sloppy, that's just fine. If you're moody, I won't mind. If you're fat, that's fine with me. If you're skinny, let it be. If you're bossy, that's all right. if you're nasty, I won't fight. If you're rough, well that's just you. If you're mean, that's all right too. Whatever you are is all okay. I don't like you anyway."

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Rene Descartes Philosopher, Mathematician
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"The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis."

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Kami Garcia Author
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"I suppose I am a snob. I loathe towns. I loathe townspeople. They have small minds and giant backsides. Which is to say, what they lack in interiors they make up in posteriors."

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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
Mind

"When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work."

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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
Mind

"Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts."

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