Michel de Montaigne Quotes

The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

Some feel that you lose your independence if you don't let your mind just wander where it wants to, if you try to control it. But that is not the case. If your mind is proceeding in the correct way, one already has the correct opinion. But if your mind is proceeding in an incorrect way, then it's necessary, definitely, to exercise control.

The problem is to keep the monkey mind from running off into all kinds of thoughts.

Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

If you want to get over a problem, stop talking about it. Your mind affects your mouth and your mouth affects your mind. It's difficult to stop talking about a situation until you stop thinking about it.

For one who is a learner and who has not yet come to master their mind, but who dwells aspiring for peace from that which binds, making it a matter concerning himself, I know of no other thing as helpful as giving close attention to the mind.

Our minds are so undisciplined that our doubts rule our lives and we don't master our imagination - it masters us.

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

The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity.

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

All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

The whole point is to discipline the mind.

To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.

If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.

First and fore-most, you must have confidence. Your second mental problem is concentration. Think the shot through in advance before you address the ball. Draw a mental image of where you want it to go and then eliminate everything else from your mind, except how you are going to get the ball into that preferred spot.

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

I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place.

The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.

What we think is, in the adult person, very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to think, and what we feel is very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to feel. Moreover, what we think is very much a matter of what we wish and seek to think, and what we feel is very much a matter of what we wish and seek to feel. In short, the condition of our mind is very much a matter of the direction in which our will is set.

The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.

You either control your mind or it controls 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.

Mind your till, and till your mind.

You are the one who must decide whose thoughts you will entertain. You are free to choose-but you are not free to alter the consequences of those choices. You will be what you think about what you consistently allow to occupy the stage of your mind.