The Mind Quotes

The games we have the ability to play in our minds amaze me.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.

A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.

I am in my own mind. I am locked in the wrong house.

I hate taxing my mind with analysis. I'm not a good analyst. I cannot talk about acting. I hate talking about it. I hate talking about analyzing.

Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.

When I think about myself, my thought seeks itself in the ether of a new space. I am on the moon as others are on their balconies. I participate in planetary gravitation in the fissures of my mind.

Pray silently with simplicity every day to stay cool and calm in mind, composed and collected in heart; courageous and connected to own soul, to lay the way for a peaceful life.

If you get your mind right, you get your life right.

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.

A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

I want to reach your mind - where is it currently located?

When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.

The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.

The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him--The reasoning mind.

Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.

Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads.

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.

The effect to be sought is the dislocation of the opponent's mind and dispositions - such an effect is the true gauge of an indirect approach.

As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.

Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.

Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person's mind.

I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.

People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind, and the heart, and the soul. This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive.

We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.

So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.

The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other minds.

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

Keep your head up, keep your heart strong. Keep your mind set, keep your hair long.

Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.

What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.

Disease preys on a weak and malnourished mind.

When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing ... will win arguments and straighten people out.

I...am an evolved being who deals solely with the source of light...in all of us in our own minds. No middleman required.

So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.

It's my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.

I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

Red lights, green lights, stop and go jive. Headlines, deadlines, jamming your mind.

When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.