Yanni Quotes

Your only limitation is the one you set up in your own mind!

My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.

Who affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.

In the mind of the beginner, there are many possibilities. In the mind of the expert there are few.

[H]uman beings...make a limit in their mind of what their potential is. They decide, "I've been told this," or "this is what society tells me," or they've been made to believe something. If every human being actually threw away those thoughts...the potential of human beings is great, it's huge, compared to what they actually think of themselves.

Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds.

If your thinking is limited, your life will be limited.

What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.

Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal; for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before.

The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.

Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.

The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.

Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.

Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.

Don't choose. If you choose, you will be in the quagmire. Don't choose! A choiceless awareness is the goal. Just remain aloof; don't choose. The moment you choose, you have fallen into the trap of the world, or into the trap of the mind.

Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.

Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult.

You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.

Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.

Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

Still, you tend to believe what you always believed, think what you always thought, expect what you always expected

Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds.

The soul creates, the mind reacts. The soul understands what the mind cannot conceive.

When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.

My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?