My Mind Quotes

Sometimes people can't afford to work for you, or they're not interested or available, and you hate to have written the whole movie with somebody in mind and not get them.

Crowds of minds can be wise, but crowds of bodies just aren't.

In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.

Chess is a cold bath for the mind

Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.

And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.

She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.

A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties.

Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.

I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made.

I believe L. Ron Hubbard resolved the human mind, and in resolving it he has also resolved human pain - that's what I really think has happened here.

We've shared good (times) We've shared good fries We've shared good (beers) But never goodbyes... Till now Mind how you go, good buddy

You're 60 But honestly it doesn't show Mind you, you reached the age of consent About 50,000 consents ago!

The only way I've learned to change anyone's mind politically is to make them laugh. My whole career has been about that.

When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it.

I would take songs that I'd loved as a child and redo them in my mind for the new voice I had, the low voice.

I started pulling gags on Al [Pachino]. That was the moment I realized that he was absolutely out of his mind. I mean that he's certifiably insane. I wouldn't spend a night in a room where he's at.

I have toyed with the idea of playing it straight. But, like I say, I really believe we are all out of our minds at some level.

I don't mind not having recognition. If it happens, fine, but it doesn't bother me that it's not there.

Joe Henderson, who I maybe, to me, if I had to pick one improviser in my life that I saw live that blew my mind most, especially as a teenager.

If you want to make [your own way in music] it as a player, which is very difficult, as Art Blakey said to me, "We're blessed to have the opportunity to do this." So just keep that in mind.

It's okay that the mind drifts away but you just bring it back.

You can bring together the body's various systems to fine tune the body and mind in order to navigate life's ups and downs in a way that minimizes stress and maximizes well-being and satisfaction.

The mind that has not been developed or trained is very scattered. That's the normal state of affairs, but it leaves us out of touch with a great deal in life, including our bodies.

weeping...betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.

I would say if you are having a tough time in your life, then going to a club and getting laughs, it does make you feel better for that hour and a half show. It gets your mind off of it.

I am not trying to be young again. But I do feel the need to capture that energy in story form before it slips from my mind, to recount those adventures if not relive them.

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.

Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.

Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas.

Don't hold me to anything in the book. I'm a waffler. I like wafflers. They said John Kerry was a waffler, but I admired him for that - showed he could change his mind.

I know I've lost my mind. But I'm not concerned, because it's the first thing I've lost in a long time that actually feels good.

Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in our heels, we just can't resist the gravity of alternate worlds.

Writing is physical for me. I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my mind.

One doesn't mind adverse criticism so long as it isn't stupid.

I made up my mind that nothing,, nothing was going to stop me Not even me.

I don't mind if smiles come at my expense, I'm a small price to pay.

When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

And, is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?

I have heard of a man who had a mind to sell his house, and therefore carried a piece of brick in his pocket, which he shewed as a pattern to encourage purchasers.

You know, being able to, in my mind, have a song that you know doesn't really have any loose ends or you know, extra fat in it, so to speak.

Note to self: It's hard to attain a state of no-mind when you're incredibly pumped up on tea and sugar and have to urinate every three and a half minutes.

The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure. The Divine Mind intuitively grasps that form immediately, as men do a triangle.

The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.

A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.

Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.

I have often wondered that learning is not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune. Since they have the same improvable minds as the male part of their species.

There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.