#mind

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs. ↗

— John Dos Passos

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Chance favors the prepared mind. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

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You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset. ↗

— Dave Pelzer

#mindset #survivor #victim #you

It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind. ↗

— Edmund S. Muskie

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For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body. ↗

— Gary Neville

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I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team. ↗

— Gary Neville

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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything. ↗

— John Henry Newman

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