The Mind Quotes

The first thing I think of when I think about coming to Las Vegas and playing is always Elvis; its always the first thing on my mind.

‎"To Parlin's mind, nothing showed affection like a hunk of something dead and bleeding on the table.

The sun was in mind to come out but having a look at the weather it was in lost heart and went back again.

Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart

Your mind is like a garden - unless you cultivate flowers, weeds will flourish. To keep your mind positive, substitute positive thoughts for negative thoughts.

My mind becomes tired, and perhaps some of yours do. If so, go and exercise your bodies.

To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.

I've been in a relationship for almost two years now, so I'm kind of locked in there. My mind doesn't even really remember when I was single, to be honest.

My holidays are very important. Mind you, I take a very long one every year.

The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself. If we can't find peace within ourselves, where is the hope for peace in the world?

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it.

There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.

He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets.

We're actually making not one but 30 choices at a time: Our mind is making a choice. Our heart's making choices.

Clean up a pigsty," she commented one evening, "and if the creatures in it still have pig-minds and pig-desires, soon it will be the same old pigsty again.

In my mind it strolls, as well as in my apartment. A cat, strong, sweet and delightful.

Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.

whiskey makes the heart beat faster but it sure doesn't help the mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just from the deadly drone of existence?

The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of this reflection upon another's mind.

Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.

No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.

Worry erases the promises of God from your mind.

A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.

Do not try to make the gospel tasteful to carnal minds. Do not hide the offense of the cross, lest you make it of no effect.

No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my own faith and my own convictions in the seclusion of my own mind.

I often have a theme in mind when I'm starting. I know that I want everything to be in a world of, say, evolution, or guilt.

His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss.

Manage your mind. When we direct our thoughts and words toward the outcome we most desire, we ignite grace.

I do not mind at all that Newton is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of attraction.

I come from a show-business family, so wanting to become an actor never crossed my mind. It was just a part of my life.

I want to be a positive influence in little girls' eyes. Little girls need to be confident and grow up with a healthy state of mind. It's a tough, tough world out there.

And if you think I won't say bulls**t to the President, I say move on, cause I'll say what's on my mind.

A promise unkept will take a man's mind.

A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.

The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.

If you mind losing more than you enjoy winning, don't bet.

At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand.

Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a wonderful kind of play!

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

If the mind is dominated by hatred, the best part of the brain, which is used to judge right and wrong, does not function properly.

No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the subjective nature of the mind.

All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy.

Patience as we wait to take action is a kind of compassionate mind. Impatience on the other hand can be a source of failure.

We need to make material progress, but we need inner development too ... remember that the real development we seek is not in the buildings but in our hearts and minds.

The very purpose of meditation is to discipline the mind and reduce afflictive emotions.

A mind that is characterized by unrest will not be tranquil even in the presence of great calm.

Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind's attachments and just go for the ride freely, no matter what happens.

Often a retrospect delights the mind.