Quotes about Frame of Mind

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. Votes: 6

The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect. Votes: 6

Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already. Votes: 6

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman. Votes: 6

To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape. Votes: 5

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. Votes: 5

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success. Votes: 5

A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me. Votes: 5

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer. Votes: 5

Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind. Votes: 5

I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession. Votes: 5

To be happy when you are travelling, you need to be happy inside before you leave. A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me. Votes: 5

I have a European frame of mind and Europe is my home. Votes: 4

Running helps me stay on an even keel and in an optimistic frame of mind. Votes: 4

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind. Votes: 4

For this game you need, above all things, to be in a tranquil frame of mind. Votes: 4

The secret of a balanced life is to live each moment in the right spiritual frame of mind. Votes: 4

Composing is sort of an intuitive act. You have to put yourself in the right frame of mind. Votes: 4

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation." Votes: 4

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation. Votes: 4

Different fragrances promote different emotions, and I find that fragrance gets me in the frame of mind for that person. Votes: 4

Every problem offers an opportunity for a solution. if you are in the right frame of mind to find it. Votes: 4

Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose. Votes: 4

All places are places of worship to a Christian. Wherever he is, he ought to be in a worshiping frame of mind. Votes: 4

Keep your turn of mind and frame of mind in check so that you do not cash in your checks bright and early. Votes: 4

Tea was more than boiling water. There were decisions to be made and a frame of mind to develop, no matter how imperceptible. Votes: 4

Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness. Votes: 4

A long walk and grooming with a well-mannered dog is a Zen experience that leaves you refreshed and in a creative frame of mind. Votes: 4

. . to cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous. Votes: 4

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you. Votes: 4

That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself. Votes: 4

A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind. Votes: 4

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain. Votes: 4

Obedience unlocks the riches of the Christian experience. Prayer prompts and nurtures obedience, putting the heart into the proper "frame of mind" to desire obedience.Of Votes: 4

Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field. Votes: 4

I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand. Votes: 4

It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice that I'm trying to sing with. Votes: 4

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind. Votes: 4

There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else. Votes: 4

Never think of revising as fixing something that is wrong. That starts you off in a negative frame of mind. Rather think of it as an opportunity to improve something you already love. Votes: 4

The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind. Votes: 4

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping. Votes: 4

Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind. Votes: 4

Rage is the opposite of thought, whoever has put you in this frame of mind has more control over you right now, than you have over yourself. If he is your opponent and you will face him today, you will be defeated. Votes: 4

I think a really rich world to live in is where you're thinking in terms of human behavior and human types and not being super literal. In order to see the deeper truth, you need to break out of literal frame of mind. Votes: 4

I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living. Votes: 4

My secret to survival has been embracing life's challenges and not letting them dictate my frame of mind or determine my fate... Learning to stand strong in the face of challenge and adversity is the only way to get through the tough times. Votes: 4

The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiased by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind. Votes: 4

I've pursued dreams and achieved them, but I don't think anybody should think their life is incomplete if they don't follow some dream. Happiness doesn't come from achievements, or money, or any sort of treasure. Happiness is a frame of mind, not a destination. It's appreciating what you've got and building relationships with those around you. Votes: 4

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too. Votes: 4

Happiness is the choice I make today. It does not rest on my circumstances, but on my frame of mind...In cultivating the habits of happiness, I attract the people and situations that match its frequency. I smile more often, give praise more often, give thanks more often, and am glad more often. For such is my choice today. Votes: 4

I have often started off on a walk in the state called mad-mad in the sense of sore-headed, or mad with tedium or confusion; I have set forth dull, null and even thoroughly discouraged. But I never came back in such a frame of mind, and I never met a human being whose humor was not the better for a walk. Votes: 4

In 1938, Louise Rosenblatt introduced reader response theory or the transactional view of reading. She asserted that what the reader brings to the reading act - his or her world of experiences, personality, and current frame of mind - is just as important in interpreting the text as what the author writes. According to this view, reading is a fusion of text and reader. Votes: 4

If a team is in a positive frame of mind, it will have a good attitude. If it has a good attitude, it will make a commitment to playing the game right. If it plays the game right, it will win-unless, of course, it doesn't have enough talent to win, and no manager can make goose-liver pate out of goose feathers, so why worry? Votes: 4

I feel so lucky to have lived the life that I did and to be surrounded by the people I love. I've got eight kids, and they're always laughing all the time. It's like music to my ears. I think that my frame of mind these days is probably happier than I've ever been, which is kind of odd, coming close to the finish line. Votes: 4

A while later, I lingered in the hinterlands of sleep. Sometimes I think there is more rest in that place between wakefulness and sleep than there is in true sleep. The mind walks in the twilight of both states, and finds the truths that are hidden alike by daylight and dreams. Things we are not ready to know abide in that place, awaiting that unguarded frame of mind. Votes: 4

Being poor is a frame of mind. Votes: 3

The frame frames a frame of mind. Votes: 3

He was in the frame of mind when a weaker man would have started writing poetry. Votes: 3

A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too. Votes: 3

I never had disagreements with [Adolf Hitler], I never saw him in an unpleasant frame of mind. Votes: 3

Anyone with an engineering frame of mind will look at [accounting standards] and want to throw up. Votes: 3

Hard work and a proper frame of mind prepare you for the lucky breaks that come along -- or don't. Votes: 3

Regardless of how dark and heavy the character is the actor has to approach it with that frame of mind. Votes: 3

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another. Votes: 3

Anybody can use science and technology without fundamentally altering his own frame of mind which governs how they are used. Votes: 3

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds. Votes: 3

What goes on when people overfetishize safety is that they're relapsing into that old frame of mind that what we're doing is BAD. Votes: 3

Pointsman is finding it much easier to of late to slip into a l'etat c'est moi frame of mind--who else is doing anything? Votes: 3

Here's my advice: Go ahead and be whacky. Get into a crazy frame of mind and ask what's funny about what you're doing. Votes: 3

Youth is a frame of mind. If you get out there and enjoy it, you can have it at any time of your life. Votes: 3

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change. Votes: 3

You put yourself in the receptive frame of mind with which we approach music or poetry, which you can measure the difference on a neurological scanner. Votes: 3

Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms. Votes: 3

Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then"A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope. Votes: 3

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself. Votes: 3

Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope. Votes: 3

you don't need talent to be an artist. 'Artist' is just a frame of mind. Anybody can be an artist, anybody can communicate if they are desperate enough. Votes: 3

Since I came at 'Godot' from a God-based frame of mind, it didn't strike me as absurdist. It struck me as characters waiting for proof of God's existence. Votes: 3

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice. Votes: 3

What you need to do in conflict resolution is to bring the people who believe that the answer to their political ambitions will be achieved through violence into a frame of mind that they accept that their political ambitions will be delivered by politics. Votes: 3

I had to lull Mom and Hank into believing I was in the right frame of mind to be taken into public. If I exited my bedroom foaming at the mouth and dressed in black LOVE SUCKS tee, my plan would never get off the ground. Votes: 3

Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature. Votes: 3

Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain. Votes: 3

I am a person that believes in different emotions with music. Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind. Votes: 3

The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social as well as to physical problems, and we must carefully guard ourselves against supposing that the scientific frame of mind is a peculiarity of the professional scientist. Votes: 3

We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel. And because of this sensibility, we come to the European Union with a frame of mind that is more practical than emotional. Votes: 3

It's easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it's easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. Votes: 3

...when you are constantly prevailing upon the kindness of strangers-as a hitchhiker must-it keeps you in a positive frame of mind. Call it Zen and the Art of Hitchhiking. The Way of the Lift. The chrysanthemum and the Thumb. Heady on beer and the sound of my own voice, the aphorisms spilled out unchecked. Votes: 3

I simply constructed a project to try to snap Kurt [Cobain] out of a frame of mind. I sent him a plane ticket and a driver, and he tacked the plane ticket to the wall in the bedroom and the driver sat outside the house for 10 hours. Kurt wouldn't come out and wouldn't answer the phone. Votes: 3

It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head. Votes: 3

One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything. Votes: 3

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background. Votes: 3

Hell is just a frame of mind. Votes: 2

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. Votes: 2

The mental framework that makes science enjoyable is accessible to everyone. It involves curiosity, careful observation, a disciplined way of recording events, and finding ways to tease out the underlying regularities in what one learns. It also requires the humility to be willing to learn from the results of past investigators, coupled with enough skepticism and openness of mind to reject beliefs that are not sup-ported by facts. Votes: 2

Living threads more numerous than stars frame the universe of my mind. Votes: 1

Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life. Votes: 1

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world. Votes: 1

A lot times you have your frame very much in mind and you're waiting for things to fall in place. Votes: 1

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil. Votes: 1

To please the fancy is no trifling good, Where health is studied; for whatever moves The mind with calm delight, promotes the just And natural movements of th'harmonious frame. Votes: 1

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind. Votes: 0

You a lame so yo dame playin mind games; I'm a pimp so I stay in that mind frame. Votes: -1