The Mind Quotes

Why do I put myself in a position to be cast aside or not considered as I would like to? Because I am a creative mind, because I still aspire to be one.

I think there is a metaphysical problem of the relation between mind and body. Thinking that there is no metaphysical dimension to the problem is an error.

Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.

He who is our Eternal Father has blessed you with miraculous powers of mind and body. He never intended that you should be less than the crowning glory of His creations.

the creative mind is as delicately balanced as the needle trembling in a compass; the presence of antagonistic metal deflects it instantly.

Religion stills a thinking mind.

...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.

Surrender to alcohol intoxication provides a partial and subjective shortcut to a more correct state of mind.

I never had disagreements with [Adolf Hitler], I never saw him in an unpleasant frame of mind.

IBM is helping to greatly advance and expedite quality sampling while providing our project investigators peace of mind that the information they are gathering is securely stored and protected.

Boredom is your mind and body's way of telling you you're not living up to your potential.

An open mind isn't the same thing as an empty head.

Hard work and a proper frame of mind prepare you for the lucky breaks that come along -- or don't.

I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive.

Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.

A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it.

For me, a garden is peace of mind. It immediately takes my mind off the thing I'm puzzling about in my work and gives me repose.

Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.

Fashion is just a name for one of the things that happen where mind and body intersect.

I am perpetually bringing or losing babies, both very dreadful operations to me, and which tear mind and body both in pieces very cruelly.

First you don't want me to get the pony, then you want me to take it back. Make up your mind!

There is the joy that is one's state of the being and there is the joy that is one's state of mind. The first is permanent and the second is impermanent.

Sourav Ganguly is the new Steve Waugh of mind games.

At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.

To see truth as truth, we don't need a lot of study. It's not complicated. What we need is pure observation. An open mind and fresh eyes will serve us well.

Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.

Peace of mind is much better than giving them a piece of your mind.

To his mind, free will was a privilege, not a right.

The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.

You can't separate the mind and body. It's impossible.

In our current frame of mind, or paradigm, or whatever you want to call it, we like to think that marshalling government policy is the way to get things done.

I don't mind playing somebody who's not likable, or makes the audience feel slightly conflicted.

With an open mind, we gain insight into ideas and expressions that we may have overlooked or not noticed at all.

But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.

The pressed oil of words can blaze up into music, into image, into the heart and mind's knowledge. The lit and shadowed places within us can be warmed.

I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter.

Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance.

I feel like I've got an open mind as far as sounds, for me, as far as I'm concerned I just wanted to make music that had really good melodies.

Happiness is the default state of mind, lets reconfigure to reach the default state !

I'm not suffering from withdrawal symptoms. I would say that I have a balanced state of mind.

All the rest of the world could only kill or devastate my mind and body. Bones alone held the power to demolish my soul.

To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape.

Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.

No one ever died from an open mind.

That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.

The errors of the observer come from the qualities of the human mind.

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

A sketch will not serve more than one state of mind & will not serve to drink at again & again — in a sketch there is nothing but the one state of mind — that which you were in at the time.

That state of mind - of being beside yourself - is wonderful. As you get older, you're just very aware of a sense of an ending. You're grateful for every day.