The Mind Quotes

I have a hard time visualizing anything, which is why I'm not a director, and which is why I try to work with ones I know have a strong idea in mind.

He tried to reconstruct the story in his mind, but it kept getting confused, bleeding into itself like watercolors.

The most important goal I had in mind was to convince people to stop blindly trusting algorithms and assuming that they are inherently fair and objective.

My mind's sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn't like you if you were the best of women, -or stop loving you, no matter what you do.

Moments are precious, sometimes they linger and other times they're fleeing, and yet so much could be done in them; you could change a mind, you could save a life and you could even fall in love.

Don't mind all those people who say that you should be back to normal in a month or two. Grieving is all part of helping yourself anyway.

When the mind is un-agitated, when the mind is calm, that mind is most conducive to creative problem solving.

My job description is to enlighten minds, open hearts and create world peace.

It's a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable to one who can read their minds

Sookie, it is not your blood I love. I love you. Your heart, your mind, your soul... you have brought light back into my life

Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water.

A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.

terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat across my mind

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

I don't mind there being some medievalists around for ornamental purposes, but there is no reason for the State to pay for them.

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!

If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.

They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles.

You are always training yourself to be, mind and body, as clear as crystal, and you always are, and never change; whereas I am a muddy, solitary, moping weed.

Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly.

... As to sleep, you know, I never sleep now. I might be a Watchman, except that I don't get any pay, and he's got nothing on his mind.

"Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must make up his mind to, in this life. "

I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.

When we hate a person, with an intimate, imaginative, human hatred, we enter into his mind, or sympathize -- any strong interest will arouse the imagination and create some sort of sympathy.

He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind.

I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself.

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.

Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.

I enjoy looking at your face... Whenever I look at your face, a question always comes to my mind... Will man ever succeed in reaching the moon?

Dreams are practical reflections of feelings and concerns that were present in your mind at the time you had the dream. You are smart and practical. So are your dreams.

Is it not the play of the mind we are after? Is it not that that shows a mind is there at all?

A delicate thought is a flower of the mind.

The stars know everything, So we try to read their minds. As distant as they are, We choose to whisper in their presence.

When filled with holy truth the mind rests.

When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone.

You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.

You don't have to look poor, you don't have to look down; For money is a medium of exchange, and that's all; but it is not a mind regulator unless you allow it to be.

Mostly every shirt and cover you see has come from my mind.

Because Guillermo's [del Toro] obviously a painter painting a picture and my job is just to provide the color that he probably already has in his mind.

I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.

The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.