My Mind Quotes

For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention to the spirit, soul, and broader environmental issues.

I'm a very emotional person. If I've got something on my mind, that would stop me from giving my best.

In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work a poem.

I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing.

I was filled with dread at the thought my mind had skipped town and left me behind to pay the rent." --Dexter

We have flooded ourselves with the media in all its many forms. Our minds are now open to signals. We have become aerials.

I like delivering a message, but what I find interesting is providing those details in a different context. Then the readers can make up their minds what it means.

The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look, inspect, compare. From inside there is no comparison.

Part-black generally means all-black in Americans' minds. Just as part-Asian or part-Hispanic or part-anything-else usually puts individuals in those minority-groups' camps.

I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his mind on the proper balance between dignity and free speech.

I never sleep on the plane. I have to be awake and using my mind power to keep it in the air

I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner." He threw the rest of her sandwich at the swinging door as she passed through it.

Ignorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind.

I didn't know what would take my mind off the sexy Spartan, except for maybe a total lobotomy.

I've made my mind up that I will only do a film that I really, really love. I'm determined to lie low until a role comes along that really makes me want to work.

Facebook is that successful guy you're supposed to want to date, but you can't keep your mind off the beautiful freak in the corner. Twitter is my freak.

Insight is 'mental vision,' one of the ways in which the mind escapes the limits of the obvious or the familiar.

The lost wallet or purse law: No matter how careful you are, assume that you will lose a few. ... Keep grief to a minimum. It's bad enough your stuff is gone; don't lose your mind too.

Have you dared to eat my son?" I laughed. Actually, it started out as more of a giggle that grew. Because my mind went straight to the gutter.

All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.

Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.

You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.

It has crossed my mind that I would like to run or help to run a pro women's tournament, although I really don't know much about organizing an event (it seems overwhelming actually).

Without a doubt in my mind, I believe that vaccinations triggered Evan's autism.

I must admit that it seems like my mind really reconstructs some things, and in a very - I just know that it seems like some things are not as I remembered them when I do some investigation.

Dependence goes somewhat against the grain of a generous mind; and it is no wonder that it should do so, considering the unreasonable advantage which is often taken of the inequality of fortune.

I never want to sort of put all the cards on the table all at once, because that's somehow there's always a journey to go on. There's always something to be revealed, in my mind, about characters.

After the game, I'm a completely different person. I drink some beers with friends and try to get my mind completely off football.

I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won't do; it's all about the roles.

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

every mind is at least as heavy as mine

In my mind, I'm writing for everybody.

It's a great question about what is our mind. Undoubtedly a creation of our brain.

I am clearer in my mind and a bit less confused than I used to be.

When you take on a role you try to do as much as possible beforehand to get your mind into it. Just to prepare because it's a daunting prospect to go six months or whatever.

I speak my mind. That's who I am.

My mind is constantly in five different places, but golf is great because it forces you to focus completely and purely on what you're doing.

I don't mind giving everyone a shock - including myself.

There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.

Your mind is like, oh my God, I know this is wrong, but your body just gives in.

I speak my mind. I just speak my heart. I will not turn away from any question.

Since coming back from Iraq, there's been so many triumphs and obstacles standing in my way, so whenever I set my mind to something, I definitely just go full blast at it.

I don't mind auditioning. Sometimes, I think it's necessary.

I was raised in a household where I read Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky and Kant, and I was never taught that my mind was feminine. I'm aware that my body is.

As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison.

A mind that practices love cannot love.

To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.

Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.

The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.