Morris Graves Quotes

All good and genuine draftsmen draw according to the picture inscribed in their minds, and not according to nature.

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.

When you do something, if you fix your mind on the activity with some confidence, the quality of your state of mind is the activity itself. When you are concentrated on the quality of your being, you are prepared for the activity.

To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.

Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate...Give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Freedom from mental distraction equals power. Body mind masters eventually come to the realization that this and every moment, on or off the field, is the moment of truth.

Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.

When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.

Words, living and ghostly, the quick and the dead, crowd and jostle the otherwise too empty corridors of my mind ... To move among this bright, strange, often fabulous herd of beings, to summon them at my will, to fasten them on to paper like flies, that they may decorate it, this is the pleasure of writing.

The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.

I carry around a little journal with me, a little notebook and a pen and just write all the time. Not necessarily actually sitting down and writing lyrics, just free-form writing, whatever's going on in my mind.

What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.

Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.

Unclog your mind. Unclog your room. Arrange your room in a way you wish your mind would be.

Prayer and contemplation are both exercises in concentration. The normal deluge of conscious thought is restricted and the mind is brought to one conscious area of operation. The results are those you find in any concentrative practice: deep calm, a physiological slowing of the metabolism and a sense of peace and wellbeing

There's a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time.

If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.

Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.

When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.

I try to clear my mind of everything, I try to think of nothing. I just let my body act, the body can take control and do what it's trained to do.

He moves smoothly and slowly, carrying his concentration like a brimming cup.

I am a firm believer in 'negative thinking' when used correctly. We need to be AWARE of negatives so that we can steer clear of them. A golfer needs to know where the bunkers and sand traps are - but he doesn't think continuously about the bunker - where he doesn't want to go. His mind glances at the bunker, but he DWELLS upon the green.

Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.