The Mind Quotes

I have one thing in my mind. How can I get people to start taking care of themselves? That's all I think about.

I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy

The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people apart, breed feelings of inferiority.

Human spirit, things that aren't tangible, fascinate me, so I'm always researching mind, spirit, soul.

When you are truly meditative, there is no time and space for you. Time and space is just a creation of the mind.

Your thoughts and emotions are the drama that you create in your mind. You must be able to end it somewhere.

Meditation means to go beyond the limitations of body and mind.

With yoga, not only your body should become flexible - your mind and emotions, and above all your consciousness should become flexible.

My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.

To survive, our minds must taste redwood, and agate, octopi, bat, and in the bat's mouth, insect. It's hard to think like a planet, but we've got to try.

O charitable philosopher, I beg you to help me. My mind is weak but my soul is strong. Kindle that soul, and the sacred fire shall never be extinguished.

Books and minds only work when they're open.

Credit is money of the mind.

The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play.

It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country its truest and most durable celebrity.

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

They [Erasers] were bad fliers," Angel chimed in, "And in their minds, they weren't all kill the mutants, like they usually are. They were like, remember to flap!

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

Luck, good or bad, is the invisible play of mind upon affairs, the effect of mental aptitudes and habits which are not in sight, but which work and bring forth their due issues.

It's a horrible feeling - there's nothing worse for any player than to be thinking at the back of your mind that there's something wrong with you.

Interesting is when one can produce a picture that is pretty, but with undercurrents. The metaphor that comes to mind is in the poems of Robert Frost.

Insomnia is only mind over mattress.

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff... and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? And if it does, then who's in charge here, anyway?

The best thing you can give someone is the freedom to make their own mind up - and then, if it's not working out 5 years later, you can give your opinion.

From the moment you are in that cell, when they tell you you're going ot be electrocuted, you contemplate it all the time. It never leaves your mind, and they never let it leave your mind.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

The image gets built one way or another... it doesn't get done by following the natural order of things, but arises instead from an order that you have in your mind.

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to the sport.

Ah! mon Dieu! how the mind shrinks by loving! it is true that the soul does not, but what can one do with a soul?

You might be a redneck if you have started a petition to change the National Anthem to Georgia on My Mind.

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.

It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

That was the summer of 1963, when everybody called me ‘Baby,’ and it didn't occur to me to mind.

Bye, Tess. haunt me if you like. I don't mind.

Someone else's body is a place for your mind to go.

The anger of the LORD will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his mind.

Hindsight plays tricks on our minds.

We see things based on autopilot. Our mind identifies something in a certain way, no matter what the eye sees. The eye tells you one thing and the brain tells you another.

If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation.