Mind Quotes

A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine

How do you say a thing at all, at the end of the day? How do you say what's in your mind? And as soon as you say what you actually have in mind, it's wrong, isn't it?

My mind corrupted but my heart is still pure

The surest thing about me is that I will change my mind.

It's very hard from a distance to figure out who has lost their minds. One party, the other party, all of us, the president.

Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind.

Despite the obstacles of race and class, I was always taught that I could accomplish anything I set my mind to. African-American writers, for me, were a beacon, a guiding force.

The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.

We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.

Mental time-travel is one of the greatest gifts of the mind. It makes us human, and it makes us special.

There's nothing worse than a director that keeps changing their mind. Because, unlike the directors I work with, I'm not decisive at all.

His body and his mind went about their different businesses. The former, freed from conscious instruction, breathed, rolled, sweated, and digested. The latter went dreaming.

I was brought up on the proletarian left, and I remain there. The fair go for workers is fundamental, and I don't believe the free market has a mind.

Mocking Hugh Hefner is easy to do, and in my mind should be made easier.

LIBERAL, n. A man with his mind open at both ends.

I don’t mind being alone either. The only problem is that if you’re always alone, you get lonely.

Then let not what I cannot have My cheer of mind destroy. Whilst thus I sing, I am a king, Although a poor blind boy!

Doubt is a necessity of the mind, faith of the heart.

President Obama filled out his March Madness bracket. You can tell Obama's mind is elsewhere because his top two picks were Israel and Iran.

I need some meaning I can memorize. The kind I have always seems to slip my mind.

Take some time and educate your mind, in the long run I'm sure you're fine.

I get asked if I mind when someone burns my music. I'm just flattered that people want to.

There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.

If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.

Bear in mind that parts of the score may be devoid of direct musical relevance.

Sometimes I felt I got caught up kind of going into the clubhouse non-chalantly sometimes, because all of the other guys in the clubhouse didn't go there with one goal in mind.

Change is the law of God's mind and resistance to it is the source of all pain.

A person dies every second, but there’s also a six year old somewhere, every second, trying to move an apple with his mind.

Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.

Like most Latinas, I'm not afraid to speak my mind.

I think that there's some confusion in my own mind about what I believe.

Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles

It isn't the instrument that influences High-Minded or Low-Minded; it's the quality of Mind itself.

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.

Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

The mind is "ashamed" of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces.

A calm mind helps our human intelligence to assess the situation realistically.

Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness instead.

Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors in taming the mind.

We are the creators of our own happiness and suffering, for everything originates in the mind.

Affection is important because it counters anger, hatred and suspicion that can prevent our minds from functioning clearly.

Buddhahood is a state free of all obstructions to knowledge and disturbing emotions. It is the state in which the mind is fully evolved.

Once your mind is calm and full of love, there is no room for hatred or fear. Others will trust you because of your open heart.

May I examine my mind in all actions and as soon as a negative state occurs, since it endangers myself and others, may I firmly face and avert it.

Only through the development of mutual respect, and in a spirit of truth, can friendship come about. By these means it is possible to move human minds, but never by force.

What is important is to see how we can best lead a meaningful everyday life, how we can bring about peace and harmony in our minds, how we can help contribute to society.

Once you encourage the thought of compassion in your mind, once it becomes active, then your attitude towards others changes automatically.

External circumstances can contribute to one's happiness and well-being, but ultimately happiness and suffering depend on the mind.