Undisciplined Mind Quotes & Sayings

The human mind isn't a computer; it cannot progress in an orderly fashion down a list of candidate moves and rank them by a score down to the hundredth of a pawn the way a chess machine does. Even the most disciplined human mind wanders in the heat of competition. This is both a weakness and a strength of human cognition. Sometimes these undisciplined wanderings only weaken your analysis. Other times they lead to inspiration, to beautiful or paradoxical moves that were not on your initial list of candidates. — Garry Kasparov

Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing - too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes a life. It ensures that a person's capacities stay dormant, that talents remain undeveloped, that the mind and spirit become lethargic and that the heart remains unfulfilled. — Stephen Covey

Whether our action is wholesome or unwholesome depends on whether that action or deed arises from a disciplined or undisciplined state of mind. It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one's mind is the essence of the Buddha's teaching. — Dalai Lama XIV

No more harmful nonsense exists than [the] common supposition that deepest insight into great questions about the meaning of life or the structure of reality emerges most readily when a free, undisciplined, and uncluttered (read, rather, ignorant and uneducated) mind soars above mere earthly knowledge and concern. — Stephen Jay Gould

The undisciplined mind is like an elephant. If left to blunder around out of control, it will wreak havoc. But the harm and suffering we encounter as a result of failing to restrain the negative impulses of mind far exceed the damage a rampaging elephant can cause. — Dalai Lama XIV

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering. — Dalai Lama XIV

The only competition you will have is the competition between your disciplined and undisciplined mind. — James Arthur Ray

The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses. — Mahatma Gandhi

When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love. — Barry Long

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

The mind was a capricious and undisciplined creature. You couldn't always keep it on a lead, and it was for ever dashing off into the undergrowth of the past, digging up some decayed bone of memory, and bringing it back, with tail wagging, to lay it at your feet. — David Lodge

Motivated by compassion for all sentient beings, Buddha Shakyamuni observed all these problems, and he reflected on the nature of his own existence. He found that all human beings undergo suffering, and he saw that we experience this unhappiness because of our undisciplined state of mind. — Dalai Lama XIV

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind. — Gautama Buddha

An undisciplined mind is a wasted one, which will be reflected in the life of the one who possesses such a mind. — Stephen Richards

Perpetual emotion is the past time of the undisciplined mind. — Ervin Seale

I look at people's lives and you see what's not working in their lives and it usually comes from an undisciplined mind. — Tony Robbins

More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm. — Gautama Buddha

The undisciplined mind confuses misfortune with mistakes. — Mark Caney

For the emergent process, as noted by the geneticist Theodore Dobzhansky, is neither random nor determined but creative. Just as in human order, creativity is neither a rational deductive process nor the irrational wandering of the undisciplined mind but the emergence of beauty as mysterious as the blossoming of a field of daisies out of the dark Earth. — Thomas Berry

To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I have great discipline when I write - but only for about ten minutes. — Roseanne Barr

Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind. — Andrew Weil