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I wanted to say a certain thing to a certain man, a certain true thing that had crept into my head. I opened my head, at the place provided, and proceeded to pronounce the true thing that lay languishing there—that is, proceeded to propel that trueness, that felicitous trularity, from its place inside my head out into world life. The certain man stood waiting to receive it. His face reflected an eager accepting-ness. Everything was right. I propelled, using my mind, my mouth, all my muscles. I propelled. I propelled and propelled. I felt trularity inside my head moving slowly through the passage provided (stained like the caves of Lascaux with garlic, antihistamines, Berloiz, a history, a history) toward its debut on the world stage. Past my teeth, with their little brown sweaters knitted of gin and cigar smoke, toward its leap to critical scrutiny. Past my lips, with their tendency to flake away in cold weather—
— Donald Barthelme, Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts
Striving to convey to this beloved audience of one what was going on around me during those five years, I learned the power of language to map a life, to overcome a distance, to focus attention on what matters most.
— Scott Russell Sanders, A Private History of Awe
The language of mathematics differs from that of everyday life, because it is essentially a rationally planned language. The languages of size have no place for private sentiment, either of the individual or of the nation. They are international languages like the binomial nomenclature of natural history. In dealing with the immense complexity of his social life man has not yet begun to apply inventiveness to the rational planning of ordinary language when describing different kinds of institutions and human behavior. The language of everyday life is clogged with sentiment, and the science of human nature has not advanced so far that we can describe individual sentiment in a clear way. So constructive thought about human society is hampered by the same conservatism as embarrassed the earlier naturalists. Nowadays people do not differ about what sort of animal is meant by Cimex or Pediculus, because these words are used only by people who use them in one way. They still can and often do mean a lot of different things when they say that a mattress is infested with bugs or lice. The study of a man's social life has not yet brought forth a Linnaeus. So an argument about the 'withering away of the State' may disclose a difference about the use of the dictionary when no real difference about the use of the policeman is involved. Curiously enough, people who are most sensible about the need for planning other social amenities in a reasonable way are often slow to see the need for creating a rational and international language.
— Lancelot Hogben, Mathematics for the Million: How to Master the Magic of Numbers
She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.
— Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
I’m sorry.’ The two most inadequate words in the English language.
— Beth Revis, A Million Suns
I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.
— Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express
How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.
— Jack Gilbert
But the male lexicographers had somehow neglected to coin a word for the dislike of men. They were almost entirely men themselves, she thought, and had been unable to imagine a market for such a word.
— Carl Sagan, Contact
One must not be shy where language is concerned.
— Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us.
— Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
Everything is language.
— Octavio Paz, The Bow and the Lyre: The Poem, the Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History
That there should be a reality hidden behind appearances is, after all, quite possible; that language might render such a thing would be an absurd hope.
— Emil M. Cioran
He walked through the woods like a young Adam, naming creation. I learned to shape my mouth to the words—sasumuneash for cranberry, tunockuquas for frog. So many things grew and lived here that were strange to us, because they had not been in England. We named the things of this place in reference to things that were not of this place—cat briar for the thickets of vine whose thorns were narrow and claw-like; lambskill for the low-growing laurel that had proved poisonous to some of our hard-got tegs. But there had been no cats or lambs here until we brought them. So when he named a plant or a creature, I felt that I heard the true name of the thing for the first time.
— Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing
We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.I have no native tongue.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
But language is wine upon his lips
— Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
A conglomerate of complicated words, they confuse, condemn and cajole, created, he is sure, for the sole purpose of fuddling the listener, which in this case is regrettably him.
— Curtis Ackie, Goldfish Tears
I was impressed with Jack [Kerouac]’s commitment to serious writing at the expense of everything else in his life. At a time when the middle class was burgeoning with new homes, two-tone American cars, and black-and-white TVs, when American happiness was defined by upwardly mobile consumerism, Kerouac etched a different existence and he wrote in an original language.
— Sterling Lord, Lord of Publishing: A Memoir
You should never let a word control you, intimidate you, or make you uncomfortable, and that applies to people of all races. Intent is where insult lies, and hate. Not in language.
— Felix Clay
My French was neither good nor bad. I had enough to understand what people said to me, but speaking was difficult, and there were times when no words came to my lips, when I struggled to say even the simplest things. There was a certain pleasure in this, I believe – to experience language as a collection of sounds, to be forced to the surface of words where meanings vanish – but it was also quite wearing, and it had the effect of shutting me up in my thoughts.
— Paul Auster
Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator.
— Nataly Kelly
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue has exhausted their brains' capacity to cope with any further irregularity
— Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
You should really stay true to your own style. When I first started writing, everybody said to me, 'Your style just isn't right because you don't use the really flowery language that romances have.' My romances - compared to what's out there - are very strange, very odd, very different. And I think that's one of the reasons they're selling.
— Jude Deveraux
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
— Catharine A. MacKinnon
As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue.
— Nataly Kelly, Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World
Verbalize someone's actions back to them. Menace them with language, the language mirror. Death by feedback.
— Ben Marcus, The Flame Alphabet
Poetry translation is like playing a piano sonata on a trombone.
— Nataly Kelly, Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World
...you do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops.
— Nataly Kelly, Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World
AimlesslyIt pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. NoOne listens to poetry.— from "Thing Language
— Jack Spicer
Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete?
— Nataly Kelly
Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual.
— Nataly Kelly, Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World
I fell in love the moment I saw her in her grandfather's kitchen, her dark curls crashing over her Portuguese shoulders. 'Would you like to drink coffee?' she smiled.'I'm really not that thirsty.''What? What you say?' Her English wasn't too good. Now I'm seventy-three and she's just turned seventy. 'Would you like to drink coffee?' she asked me today, smiling. 'I'm really not that thirsty.''What? What you say?' Neither of us has the gift of language acquisition. After fifty years of marriage we have never really spoken, but we love each other more than words can say.
— Dan Rhodes, Anthropology
I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't give what I crave: ecstasy, transcendence, a thrill of mysterious connection. For, more than anything else, readers are thrill-seekers, though I don't read thrillers, not the kind sold under that label, anyway. They don't thrill; only language thrills.
— Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books
To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.
— Nataly Kelly, Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World
...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Have you heard," he said "that many of our people believe if you know five colloquial expressions in their tribal language, they must always provide you with nourishment and shelter? But-" He paused as though to make sure she was paying attention. "But if you know fewer than five, they owe you not even a sip of water."She nodded, understanding his point, but he pressed it."Learn those five phrases, Miss Sweeney," he said.
— Masha Hamilton, The Camel Bookmobile
Because different cultures see a particular animal as representing a certain human virtue or vice, the use of animal imagery also allows for more colorful commentary on the human condition.
— Larry Herzberg, Chinese Proverbs and Popular Sayings: With Observations on Culture and Language
There is another system, more beaded than weather or murder, that is moving up into the province. As Les leaves the chair to investigate his son’s crying a thousand zombies form an alliterative fog around Lake Scugog and beyond, mouthing the words Helen, hello, help. This fog predominates the region; however, other systems compete, bursting and winding with vowels braiding into dipthongs so long that they dissipate across a thousand panting lips. In the suburbs of Barrie, for instance, an alliteration that began with the wail of a cat in heat picked up the consonant “Guh” from a fisherman caught in surprise on Lake Simcoe. The echoing coves of the lake added a sort of meter, and by the time these sounds arrived in Gravenhurst, the people there were certain that a musical was blaring from speakers in the woods. All across the province, zombies, like extras in a crowd scene, imitate a thousand conversations. They open and close their mouths on things and sound is a heavy carpet of mumbling, a pre-production monstrosity. In minutes the Pontypool fog will march on the town of Sunderland and over the barriers south of Lindsay.
— Tony Burgess, Pontypool Changes Everything
My Japanese isn’t much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid.
— Gil Asakawa, Being Japanese American: A JA Sourcebook for Nikkei, Hapa . . . and Their Friends
Cussing doesn’t come from a lack of vocabulary – I know all the other words. None of them speak the same language that my fucking heart does.
— Anis Mojgani
German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it’s almost like a meeting.
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
No," I replied testily. "I'm pretty sure 'digital' is Latin for 'fingeral,' so finger cancer equals digital cancer. This is all basic anatomy, Dr. Roland." The Dr. Roland told me that he thought I was overreacting, and the "fingeral" wasn't even a real word. Then I told him that I though he was underreacting, probably because he's embarrassed that he doesn't know how Latin works. Then he claimed that "underrecating" isn't a word either. The man has a terrible bedside manner.
— Jenny  Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
Radio and television speech becomes standardized, perhaps better English than we have ever used. Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident of human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.
— John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
We feel more than we can express, we see more than we can say.
— Marty Rubin
Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.
— George Orwell, Essays
How beautiful to touch another's soul with a word, a gesture, a thought.
— Marty Rubin
Because you think your language is the best language? That because you were born and your parents babbled to you in this tongue, that it is the best language to speak? How small is your mind.
— Jeff Wheeler, The Wretched of Muirwood
Loose and forbear!
— Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper
This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger.
— Mark Twain
...it was another year or two before I discovered that drat and draft were different words. During that same period I remember believing that details were dentals and that a bitch was an extremely tall woman. A son of a bitch was apt to be a basketball player. When you're six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank" (27-8).
— Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.
— Richard Chenevix Trench
Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out at every joint and motive of her body.
— William Shakespeare
I phoned the Admiral back.'It's no use, Admiral, the French speak nothing but French.'There was a short pause on the end of the line then his voice rattled into life like a sabre.'They're lying, Tim!''What?''The French Navy must by law speak English, as English is the international maritime language of the sea.''Has anyone told the French that?'The line went dead for a moment before he thundered, 'Yes Nelson. At the battle of Trafalgar.'I tried to stifle an irresistibly British giggle not knowing if the Admiral was making a joke or not. I got it right. He was serious.
— Tim FitzHigham, In The Bath: Conquering the Channel in a Piece of Plumbing
The more clearly we are able to express ourselves, the less room there is for ambiguity. The more elaborate and the more precise our vocabulary, the greater the scope for thought and expression. Language is about subtlety and nuance. It is power and it is potent. We can woo with words and we can wound. Despots fear the words of the articulate opponent. Successful revolutions are achieved with words as much as with weapons.
— John Humphrys, Between You and I: A Little Book of Bad English
A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates.
— Bernard Bloch
Going around in life using German, which Margaret had learned only a few years before, was like walking around in high heels--although it drove up the aesthetic rush of going out on the town, it was dreadfully uncomfortable after a while, and there were certain places you couldn't go
— Ida Hattemer-Higgins, The History of History
Music is a language - and language, at its finest, should be music.
— T.L. Rese
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
— William Penn
Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don’t “purify” it.
— Roland Barthes, The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France, 1977-1978
The English language is a work in progress. Have fun with it.
— Jonathan Culver
Where there is meaning, there is paradigm, and where there is paradigm (opposition), there is meaning . . . elliptically put: meaning rests on conflict (the choice of one term against another), and all conflict is generative of meaning: to choose one and refuse the other is always a sacrifice made to meaning, to produce meaning, to offer it to be consumed.
— Roland Barthes, The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France, 1977-1978
Today, information: pulverized, nonhierarchized, dealing with everything: nothing is protected from information and at the same time nothing is open to reflection -> Encyclopedias are impossible -> I would say: the more information grows, the more knowledge retreats and therefore the more decision is partial (terroristic, dogmatic) -> “I don’t know,” “I refuse to judge”: as scandalous as an agrammatical sentence: doesn’t belong to the language of the discourse. Variations on the “I don’t know.” The obligation to “be interested” in everything that is imposed on you by the world: prohibition of noninterest, even if provisional . . . .
— Roland Barthes, The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France, 1977-1978
I still have enough faith in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on the page, they will start to speak with sounds of their own.
— Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
Only big words for ordinary things on account of the sound.
— James Joyce, Ulysses
They are the efforts of someone who, overarced by stars that are human handiwork, and who, shelterless in this till now undreamt of sense and thus most uncannily in the open, goes with his very being into language, reality-wounded and reality-seeking.
— Paul Celan
It would seem that, through touch, through kissing, we might have gouged a worm-size channel through which crucial information could pass, sublingual messages, the kind of pre-verbal intimacy that should flow with thunderous force between the bodies of people so bonded. We should have been able to bypass a mere inability to exchange language.
— Ben Marcus, The Flame Alphabet
I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity
— Brian Kiteley
The language of the heartIs the only languageThat everybody can understand.
— Sri Chinmoy, Sri Chinmoy's Heart Garden: A Book of Aphorisms for Joy and Inspiration
To speak only one language is to do yourself a great injustice.
— Michelle Templet
And on the way home I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.
— Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a writer telling a story without concern for precision or freshness in the use of language. Some of this storytelling reads as if it were spoken rather than written, stuffed with tired images that pop into the writer's head because they are so familiar. The top of the head is fit for growing hair, but not for generating fine prose.
— Sol Stein, How to Grow a Novel: The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Overcome Them
I think we can all agree that the official language of the United States should be Latin.
— Michelle Templet
Argot is both a literary and a social phenomenon. What is argot, properly speaking? Argot is the language of misery.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, tome I/3
Gratitude also opens your eyes to the limitless potential of the universe, while dissatisfaction closes your eyes to it.
— Stephen Richards
You must match your energy, your vibration, with that of the universe, bringing it to a higher frequency where it synchronizes with the object, person, or situation you require.
— Stephen Richards
When we focus our thoughts on something, we resonate with it. When that resonance is constant and directed, we draw it to us.
— Stephen Richards
Everyone has their own idea of the perfect partner, but they usually do not consider what it is they have to offer one.
— Stephen Richards, The Ultimate Success In Love
Remember: the universe neither judges, nor interprets, nor second guesses your will. If it did, there would be no poverty, no hunger, no suffering.
— Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering is neither a religion nor an elaborate program. You have everything within you to succeed: right attitude and right intentions.
— Stephen Richards
The universe is infinite, so there is room for everyone, for every belief, for every custom, and for every desire. You are in competition with no one but yourself.
— Stephen Richards
You must wake up to the truth that whoever you are, that whatever you have or think you do not have, you are perfect in the here and now. Unless you can accept yourself, you will never be satisfied with anything, because it all begins with yourself.
— Stephen Richards
The principle of vis inertiae (...) seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics. It is not more true in the former, that a large body is with more difficulty set in motion than a smaller one, and that its subsequent momentum is commensurate with this difficulty, than it is, in the latter, that intellects of the vaster capacity, while more forcible, more constant, and more eventful in their movements than those of inferior grade, are yet the less readily moved, and more embarrassed, and full of hesitation in the first few steps of their progress
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Purloined Letter
If it is about education, then all who are college graduates should be wealthy, but we know that there are many highly educated, highly qualified, and highly experienced people who just manage to scrape by, if at all.
— Stephen Richards
Sand did not suddenly come into being because we had need for glass and silicone. Neither did wild flowers suddenly spring up because a bunch of environmentalists in Texas wanted alternative ways of helping the world without dumping more chemicals into it - these things were already there.
— Stephen Richards
It's all in the mind, conquer it!
— Haresh Sippy
A master is one who can effortlessly alternate between a free mind and a controlled mind.
— Haresh Sippy
If an obstacle in the real world can be eliminated in the mind then it can no longer resist to exist in the real world!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Each one of you carries the potential to blossom like flowers. When you blossom, petals of your mind open and the fragrance spread far and near.
— Banani Ray, Flow Yoga The Mindful Path of Action for Transforming Stress into Happiness
Our insecurities drive us. Our fears control us. We try to hide the first and deny the second and it is exhausting us.
— David Amerland, The Sniper Mind: Eliminate Fear, Deal with Uncertainty, and Make Better Decisions
What we think, we become.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Let's get mind stretched by God's love letters written just for you
— John M Sheehan
The mind of had the ability to alter the state of matter itself, and, more important, the mind had the power to encourage the physical world to move in a specific direction
— Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
The only reason why our minds are controlled is due to the fact that we don't make the conscious effort to control what goes in them.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
An intelligent, informed mind is more powerful than a loaded gun.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
Each moment means a new possibility. Mindfulness is not resisting things to happen but allowing life to unfold its wings.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath
VISION OF A WISARDHow many of you wish to be Wizards when you grow old?How many of you want to fly?I wished to become a dragon – he saidAnd he looked at us with eyes filled with fireThe Wizard of Earth’s SeaDescended to tell us a secret ofABRACADABRAGet to know – he said - God’s true nameThe word will initiate PowerGate keepers of Ancient KnowledgeWill open their doors Mythological Archetypes will start their danceLeading you to your tribal cloutSkeletons scattered over the burial groundsAncestors with their weapons and spearsSaints and DemonsDoctors and GypsiesHealers and WitchesWill join you to celebrateThe Birth of SelfPower of Mind over BodyThe Vision of the Dominion of Light
— Nataša Nuit Pantović, Tree of Life
The human mind is a rover, it constantly returns to think about times past, cogitates upon the future, and actively considers the entire range of alternative plans to meet our daily survival demands.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
When your mind is rich in the wisdom, and your heart is sensitive and filled with love, you are a person, who can change the world.
— Ehsan Sehgal
The only prison we can be is prison of our mind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We came into this world with a blank slate. Our minds were clear, yet open to the most subtle impressions; our spirit knows our purpose, let these en grained impressions shape our perceptions.
— Napz Cherub Pellazo
You are where your energy is and you get something from where your energy goes!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If our minds can hold us back, then they can push us forwards too.
— Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
Comfort, though can be a real reason for mediocrity and conformity, improves speed and enhances mind power greatly!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
People who don’t know the power of their mind shall only have power without power
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The reverse gear of time is the mind!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I hear many people share with me that they just 'have to do this thing' before they can relax and slow down.The truth is that taking the time to be still and reflective actually increases productivity and gives more joy to what you're doing when it's time to take action again.
— Maria Erving
I tell you the truth, if you will leave your life based on the whims and caprices of men, you shall be like the corn in popcorn machine
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Your mind is not just the wonderful power house that empowers your action and steps or the driver of your life but a wonderful city. A city in which people and things you think about dwell. Create therefore an effective and efficient licensing office in the city of your thought that will ensure that the right people and things live there. Do well to ensure that you differentiate between people and things that should stay permanently, those that should be just passersby and that which should not even get closer to this wonderful city. If you allow anything at all into this city, the city shall be filled with anything at all and you shall think about anything at all. Mind your mind!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Life is nothing other than what we internally translate it to be.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
When I met with Dr. Treffet in his hometown of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, he told me that these innate skills are, in his words, "factory-installed software", or "genetic" memory.......Why the brain suppresses these remarkable abilities is still a mystery, but sometimes, when the brain is diseased or damaged, it relents and unleashes the inner genius.
— Jason Padgett, Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel
When you are always present in the now, you will never be shocked or surprised by anything: because you will see or sense the signs of the change or changes in something or someone as it/they happen right in-front of your very eyes.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
Trey Gate's maternal grandmother, Adelle Maxwell, was also an important influence on him, encouraging him to read as much as possible, pushing him to excel in all that he did, challenging him to use his mind. They played card games together frequently, especially games like Concentration that required mental agility.
— James Wallace, Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
You are the slave of your mind!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Take it easy when you are busy! It shall never be easy but, take it easy!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
As Gates had told the pastor that day in his house. "I can do anything I put my mind to".
— James Wallace, Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
In your Mind you live with thousands characters.
— Tushar Saxena
Courage of the mind far surpasses that of the body.
— Stephen Richards
Innovation lies in a creative mind
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Letting go of anger is the best way to find peace of mind, a healthier pain-free body, and an indomitable spirit.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
I love skyscrapers. Visiting cities lush with tall buildings has always been a treat for me. The implications of these immense towers are tremendous - a representation of the power of mind over matter. It never ceases to amaze me that within our minds exist the power to transform earthly materials into these colossal giants. For me, a walk among skyscrapers is a pleasant reminder of the boundless potential of human thought.﻿
— Todd William
The artist has the master picture in his mind, before he begins to paint.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In your Mind you live with n number of characters
— Tushar Saxena
Mind power is my art …… so bring the canvas of your mind closer and I will create a masterpiece.
— Stephen Richards, Success is Only One Thought Away: Motivational and Inspirational Quotes from Mind Power Professional Stephen Richards
The subconscious mind is nothing but an energy field or mental level that resonates in line with the universal subjectivity.
— Stephen Richards, Be First: Achieve Every Dream
Of all the thoughts that hover in your mind, the one you deliberately choose and act upon - changes your LIFE!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
With positive mindset you can overcome any madness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Our power to think is infinite, consequently that means our creative power is unlimited!
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
Allowing a negative sentence in your head to end itself forms the very nucleus of negative thoughtforms!
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
Once you clear that mind clutter out, the doorways for what you desire are open.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
Avoid Law of Attraction counterfeits. Build solid foundations for your consciousness and your subconscious will soon play ball with you.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
By priming your subconscious mind you are allowing it to run in the background, and that way you are actually sending out positive thoughtforms from your subconscious in the waking state!
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
The only way is to keep going forward. Ceaseless attention isn’t what creates success. Yes, give one thought the initial boost it needs, and want it like a lifeline to a new life, a new beginning, a new whatever! Then just let it go!
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
We have to believe that the thought we have is piecing together for us the thing we are thinking of and is actually carrying it closer and closer to us!
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
During a Zen Satori moment we have zero fear, zero anxiety and zero melancholy. All we have are powerful thought forces, yet in the fully conscious state our self-limiting beliefs can continually send the things we actually desire further away from us!
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
You simply feel out for the thoughtwaves of those others with a similar thought, the attraction between minds. As you are all aware, like attracts like!
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
The real Law of Attraction has many counterfeits which are more or less fascinating, but the results are worthless.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
Remember: worry, fear, and negative thoughts produce a yield from those thoughts that have to be inevitably reaped after they have been sown!
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
If I could take you all back to being babies and just clear those bad habits you learned into adulthood away then the manifesting part would be so easy.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
The great fact is that the source of all you desire comes from within! The answers to these needs will be found within you.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
Just feel it, feel that connection and allow it. You will soon find that you attract similar influences.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
If a painter started out with a canvas and a brush and changed his/her mind every fifteen minutes, what result could he/she expect? So why should we expect any different a result in molding the greatest of all substances – thoughtform?
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
Subconscious thought is what we bring into play when true manifesting is practiced.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
Conscious thinking is something we do naturally, and any type of manifesting from this part of the mind shows up in all facets of our lives if we realize it or not.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
It is what we employ from the subconscious mind that is the most productive for manifesting!
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
With regards any type of manifesting, when you are inspired or not inspired, you created it!
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
If you could look back at a notation of all the things that you thought or felt on a subject you could in all probability spot what thoughts and feelings created the results that you are experiencing right now.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
Because sure enough, the more you try to eradicate those limiting thoughts from bouncing around in your head, those negative thoughts are going to be bouncing around in your head more and more!
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
A number of people thinking along the same lines will produce a great volume of power by virtue of a combination of their thought currenting into great streams of mental force.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
If you can learn to be more trusting you will find how easier it is to go on to manifest successfully.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
Most people fail in the process of manifesting money or the things they truly desire when they rush to take action without aligning themselves to whatever it is they desire.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
Ah-ha, but those with enthusiasm and a high vibrational output still managed to do well even in that recession! This is how NAPS works! By embedding powerful and positive commands into it you are setting off a chain-reaction for success!
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
The real problem is not the down time that you experience: it is what you do with it.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
It’s rather like the economic crash some years ago, many were impacted by it and their vibrational output slowed right down. They believed in the crash so were vacuumed in to it!
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
The gatekeeper to the subconscious mind has to be overcome first before NAPS can work, and it is in the theta state when the gatekeeper can be bypassed. This is when NAPS works!
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
Imagine your conscious mind being a locked door to your subconscious mind, all of that lingering doubt blocking the way for the powerful messages you want to embed into your subconscious mind. Well now with NAPS you get to crash through those once locked doors!
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
Without first addressing any self-limiting beliefs within your mind you may find your NAPS are useless! We can say the same thing over and over to ourselves, but self-limiting beliefs within our mind will simply ignore what it is hearing!
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
After you clean your subconscious, you can insert new beliefs into your mind otherwise your old beliefs can sabotage the new ones.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
You have to look at many different aspects of a person’s life to decide what self-limiting belief is still active. For instance, if you are poor then that is an obvious self-limiting belief to tackle about your hang-up over having money.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
If you are overweight then what is the basis of this self-limiting belief, and so on and so on. All of these things come about because people still have limiting-beliefs inside their subconscious minds.
— Stephen Richards
Once you clear that mind clutter out, the doorways for what you desire are open when you start using NAPS!
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
Clear out those things which compromise your consciousness, and then you have completed the first of a two part action to manifesting your desires.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
If you do not use clean language in your NAPS the negative words can be literally taken as part of the NAPS, and then you wonder why your NAPS has gone adrift, or that it only partly worked for you.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
These new gurus even wrote text about what it was they were teaching, but the true meaning, power and role of the Law of Attraction was shrouded by the need for these new gurus to expunge payment for what they now offered.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
The original teachings about the Law of Attraction at its very basic level states that everything is created by thought and that thought attracts to itself physical things, people, situations and circumstances.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
What the gurus were now selling was rehashed woo-woo! Now with NAPS you can truly use the Law of Attraction to its full potential, making all of those self-help books and audios obsolete!
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
In fact you need do nothing to be connected with the Law of Attraction! Whether you like it or not, since the very beginning of time, it is an unyielding, never bending, unbreakable universal rule. You cannot escape it!
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
Many have rehashed the great works of Plato, and coming forward to the 20th century even Napoleon Hill gave us rehashed woo-woo when he replicated Wallace D. Wattles.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
Napoleon Hill also rehashed 'thoughts create things' when he wrote Think & Grow Rich in 1937 (although it had taken him 25 years to complete).
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
Going one step beyond the Law of Attraction when using NAPS takes us back to the original way it was invoked, before the rehashed woo-woo!
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
Start to use the Law of Attraction as it was originally intended all of those thousands of years ago today by just using simple, positive words in your NAPS without the woo-woo!
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
Wherever you get your inspiration from, it is down to you to secure it or find your source. We are each in our own race, some slow, some still at the starting lines and some, well … not even in it! However I am sure you will agree that you have to be in it to win it.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
Now here is the fascinating thing, it is actually your own race! And just as a horse in a race, you do not look over to see what the next horse is doing. You are focused and you run your own race. That is how to create NAPS, create it for you and listen to yourself express those words with meaning and conviction.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
I mean if we all looked at how much Bill Gates has in his bank and allowed that to act as a distraction then it could be very off-putting for some.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
But this is how some get lost in the race of life, they spend their lives judging how much they will do or how much they should do based on what everyone else around them is doing.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
Ask yourself this, 'How much more would YOU accomplish if YOU stopped looking over at the person beside YOU'?
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
It is about looking straight ahead and not shifting that focus. Keep your eyes on the prize!
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
Law of Attraction teaches that what you focus on you will attract, so as you focus on what everybody else is doing or not doing, then you will get more of that.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
Running your own race means embracing your dreams and shifting towards them and not letting anyone discourage you from your goals or dreams. Create your NAPS with this in mind!
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
Think about it, if you can pick up on the vibes and thoughts of others then surely you can send out your own vibes and thoughts to others with a little conscious effort!
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
You can influence a whole plethora of things, and just as they can influence you then you can influence them.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
Going one step further, imagine if you could influence your subconscious mind to send out the right vibes to your conscious mind! That is what you are doing with NAPS.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
Now where do all of those thoughts and feelings go that you send out? Well look all around you, and look upwards, too. The ether around you carries all of your thoughtwaves in all directions! Ping, ping, ping, ping … there they go!!!!
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
Sometimes breaking down is the only solution to stepping up.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
Hitting rock bottom is the most precious level of our lives: because then we can choose which foundation to build, direction to take, and mental programs to embrace.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
If I could offer only one tool to help you attract more of what you want, it would be what is commonly called NAPS (Night Audio Programs).
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
I am a huge fan of NAPS, and by using them correctly we are able to access our subconscious minds and change our negative or neutral beliefs into positive ones.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
Expanding on the age-old system of learning while you sleep through audio recordings, NAPS uses the exact same method as you would use for listening to any audio whilst sleeping.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
In developing NAPS even further than just learning while you sleep, I have expanded on how others have brought this to the fore of subconscious power … I have gone beyond that.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
... there is one BIG factor to take into account before listening to any NAPS recording, and that is clearing yourself of self-limiting beliefs and fears of overcoming!
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
Unless you clear those once stubborn self-limiting beliefs and fears you will find the NAPS you have recorded is simply a waste of your time in doing so.
— Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
If you want to avoid emotional mediocrity, be on time for every present moment.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
Besides your mouth, your mind is a powerful tool given to you by God. Use your mind; control your mind, don't let it control you! Your imaginative power is your creative ability.
— Paul Silway
It has taken me a lot of years, but I find silence is sometimes the best answer.
— Stephen Richards
I tell you I'm tired of hearing it. There ain't nothing that happens to a person that ain't that person. The world out there only does what you tell it to do. The world is happening to you the way it is happening because you're telling yourself the story that way. If you want to change the world so damn bad, Ida, then where you got to start is how it is you're looking at it.
— Tom Spanbauer, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
I don't care about faces, personalities or clothes . . . I only care about the soul.
— Kaciana Bru, For The Raised Consciousness of The New Era: Commanding The Spirits Within: The Subconscious Mind Is A Spirit With A Separate and Distinct Personality
If you are going through hell, why the heck are you stopping to worry?
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana
Face it and it will be less …
— Stephen Richards
Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?
— Onyi Anyado
The power of a successful salesman is not putting his hand in the customer's pocket to pull his money out. but rather manipulate the customer's mind to let him put his hand and happily pull the money and give it to you
— Hisham Fawzi
Ghosts are just our minds telling us that subconsciously we feel guilty about something we should have done, would have done, but never took the time!
— Nell Rose
A positive MIND is a solid WEAPON.
— Henry Johnson Jr
Not aware of any boundaries or any rules or any traditions abiding upon them, the water flows free and wild. Not bothered about anything gone or left behind she eagerly rushes to the new dimension of her life knowing the best is yet to come.Learn to be like that soul clean, compassionate, loving and strong enough to endure.
— Harshada Pathare, You Complete Me
Let us go forth and unconquer the world!
— Tom Althouse
When you're scared, when you close your eyes ... just know there is nothing left to fear!
— Stephen Richards
Successful people got to where they did because they did something, and all successful endeavors exist because of those who acted.
— Stephen Richards, How to Get Everything You Can Imagine: Volume 1: How Mind Power Works
Your life you are living now is a creation of your mind, but if you search deep down you will discover the capacity to create an even better life ... try it!
— Stephen Richards
Your Thoughts Create Your Reality..
— Paul Jackson, Ho'oponopono Secrets
I don't know whether it is beautiful or sad, that I find such blissful happiness within the confines of my own mind, than I do in the reality that surrounds me.
— Kendal Rob