The Mind Quotes
If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought 'American Graffiti' or 'Star Wars' would work.
I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.
The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.
In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.
The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them
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One of the ideas that runs through this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] is this Buddhist notion that the mind is incredibly powerful; not the brain but the mind.
I wanted to make sure the last chapters of my life were full, and painting, it turns out, has helped occupy not only space but opened my mind.
Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed.
I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.
Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.
All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.
I could quite happily just make music because it conjures up a whole visual world for me in my mind.
Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love.
What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words.
To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful results.
Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins.
Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of two may still leave you feeling lonely.
It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism.
The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked.
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel and comprehend the vast pressure of the creative passion.
Never, ever lose sight of the power of one individual American. They can have an unbelievable magnifying affect just by the very fact they make up their mind to do so!
I really didn't have any childhood. When you don't know where you are going to sleep for the night.. or find food.. you can't think with the mind of a child. You have to think with the mind of a man.
The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist.
Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is new, And all is lovely.
Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches.
When the prayer becomes the vibration of the mind and self, then we can create a miracle.
In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.
Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.
Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty!
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.
All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.
It is not an easy thing for a parent of today to bear always in mind that every child of his is as truly an individual as he was when he was a child.
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most illuminatedmoments are.
I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.
Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?
That most sensitive, most delicate of instruments -- the mind of a little child!
...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which is in itself a satisfaction to sense.
A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.
