I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.
I believed that our own public would keep this in mind even in this serious crisis, and stand firm if only we at the front continued to stand firm too.
I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.
I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.