Jim Woodring Quotes

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

When people learn to master their feelings, they can soon learn to master their reflections and thoughts in the degree requisite for attaining the objects they are seeking. But while they yield to a feeling or spirit that distracts their minds from a subject they wish to study and learn, so long they will never gain the mastery of their minds.

And one of the powers of mindfulness is the ability to get to that frame of mind on demand.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

You don't meditate once and suddenly your life turns around. What it does is it lets you train your brain to be able to become more stable in an action-oriented way.

The mind is such a powerful thing, and when you learn how to control that it really turns a lot of things around.

Make a decision that from now on, your thoughts do not run you, you run your thoughts. From now on, your mind is not the captain of your ship, you are the captain of the ship, and your mind works for you.

The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control.

Focus is more valuable than IQ.

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.

You either control your mind or it controls you.

We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering through our mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold there. We're especially responsible for the one's we put there.

The breath of the mind is attention.

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

Usually, we find it difficult to control our mind. It seems as if our mind is like a balloon in the wind - blown here and there by external circumstances.

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.

You can't control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

I thought a lot and I controlled my thoughts in my work - and I controlled my work through my thoughts.

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

Being able to control your mind is a beautiful thing.

Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have.

You can feel up, you can feel down, and you have to keep your emotions kind of somewhere to be focused on the next ball.