Mind Quotes

I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go

They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.

We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.

Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.

All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.

We disjoint the mind like the body.

Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule and contempt.

When we read our own writing, we all think it clearly expresses what we mean, because when we read it, we are only reminding ourselves of what we had in mind when we wrote it.

To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny...though...I do not too much mind being somewhat like a cat.

in mad people fear goes on constantly, night and day, wearing one ditch in the mind that all thoughts must travel in.

Anytime you take a book and make it into a movie, you're going to have people who have their version of it in their minds and whatnot. You can't please everybody.

You got a little bit of an attitude, Mr. English, if you don't mind my saying so. I don't mind.

Kit, you're forty. You look thirty. You act...well, never mind. You're carrying on like you think you're seventy

It's human nature to work on ourselves, to get better in mind, body, and spirit, so there's nothing wrong with trying to live life to your fullest potential.

After a brief period in which I had let many a Southern Californian convince me that it was all 'in my mind,' I am once again officially allergic to dogs.

One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it with images of whatever it is you want to remember.

I don't mind saying what's on my mind.

I'm not a gamer. But I am very aware of the escapism of drugs. In my mind those kind of do the same thing. They dull us to the aches and pains of our status quo.

I wish you to be persuaded that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own industry; but the industry which I principally recommend is not the industry of the hands, but of the mind.

A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind.

You exist in the minds of other people.

How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place? I read his mind. I matched his DNA. I smelled him. I also did that.

You know, the thing that I do to waste time is think of things I want to make. That's how my mind is employed.

Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.

I think yoga builds strength, flexibility, and calming of the mind - which is never a bad thing.

The more we keep our mind on ourselves and our wants, the more unhappy we become. God wants us to love others and meet their needs.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what's been on your mind so you can think about what you've been thinking about.

Don't reason in the mind just obey in the spirit.

I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director.

Grown people with rational minds somehow do not know what's best for them.

Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?

Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?

If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express.

I think the inner person is the most important.... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.

Be careful what you wish for,her mind thundered.

He wondered if she'd mind if he threw her down on the blanket and tore off her clothing. (..) She looked heartbreakingly innocent. Alex sighed. She'd probably mind.

But when Anthony kissed her, she felt as if she were losing her mind. And when he kissed her twice, she wasn't even sure if she wanted it back!

No man of any intelligence would pretend to know a female mind.

I knew I was in good hands [with Didier Dubot] and we could accomplish whatever I had in mind.

I had a strong identity in mind but then of course I had to trust Didier Dubot's expertise. They've been doing jewelry for so many years.

I have never done jewelry before so, of course, I had an idea in mind, but I needed it to be feasible and I don't really know about the materials, like what's possible, what's not possible.

The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.

Did you know that there is no exact rhyme in the Russian language for the word 'pravda'? Ponder and weigh this insufficiency in your mind. Doesn't that just echo down the canyons of your soul?

Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?

In my mind, there's no question that Donald Trump has energized the Latino community more than any other presidential candidate. Unfortunately for him, he's done that in a negative way.

The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development lies the origin of civilization.

Every god is a jealous god after the breakdown of the bicameral mind.

The vestiges of the bicameral mind do not exist in any empty psychological space.

What I enjoy is a collaboration. Working with other like-minded people. People who have brilliant minds and big hearts.

A lot of my past is gone from my mind.