#mind

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#doomed #every #growth #ignorance #knowledge

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#books #chiefly #enjoy #give #great

If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not. ↗

— James Chanos

#basically #certain #day #drown #every

The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin. ↗

— Ralph Chaplin

#finds #her #justifies #last #looks

You have to be willing to accept the information, you have to be willing to work hard. You have to be motivated to go to practice with an open mind. You have to be willing to be criticized. Only you can do those things. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#criticized #go #hard #information #mind

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands. ↗

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#boxer #comes #completely #dancer #feet

You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not. ↗

— Marsilio Ficino

#friend #mind #need #run #running

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully. ↗

— Victor Cherbuliez

#cheerfully #detail #ease #foresight #habit

When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill. ↗

— Gary Cherone

#because #eddie #first #first time #going

Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#approach #awaken #beliefs #consciousness #crying