#minds

I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings. ↗

— Dana Carvey

#cliche #eccentric #ever #family #funniest

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. ↗

— Marilyn Ferguson

#attitudes #beings #change #changing #generation

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

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

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized. ↗

— Benjamin Haydon

#fortunately #minds #recognized #serious

Because it is possible to create — creating one’s self, willing to be one’s self, as well as creating in all the innumerable daily activities (and these are two phases of the same process) — one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever. Now creating, actualizing one’s possibilities, always involves negative as well as positive aspects. It always involves destroying the status quo, destroying old patterns within oneself, progressively destroying what one has clung to from childhood on, and creating new and original forms and ways of living. If one does not do this, one is refusing to grow, refusing to avail himself of his possibilities; one is shirking his responsibility to himself. Hence refusal to actualize one’s possibilities brings guilt toward one’s self. But creating also means destroying the status quo of one’s environment, breaking the old forms; it means producing something new and original in human relations as well as in cultural forms (e.g., the creativity of the artist). Thus every experience of creativity has its potentiality of aggression or denial toward other persons in one’s environment or established patterns within one’s self. To put the matter figuratively, in every experience of creativity something in the past is killed that something new in the present may be born. Hence, for Kierkegaard, guilt feeling is always a concomitant of anxiety: both are aspects of experiencing and actualizing possibility. The more creative the person, he held, the more anxiety and guilt are potentially present. ↗

— Rollo May

#creativity #mindset #experience

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#begin #care #environment #extracted #feeding

The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads. ↗

— Abdullah Ibrahim

#biggest #biggest problem #disrupted #economically #heads

When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing. ↗

— Wyclef Jean

#cotton #head #i #like #minds

President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#american #american people #because #country #deserve