The Mind Quotes

As you watch the Gary Condit interview, three words come to mind: stiff, unbending and impenetrable. And that's just his hair.

That strange, twisted, torn love. That conflict between what your heart knows is right and what your mind is told is right.

apparel, n.: There are times I don’t mind doing the laundry, because folding your clothes reminds me of the shape of you.

I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.

We just want to walk. Our legs need to move to keep our minds from collapsing.

Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.

I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.

The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.

America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal of tolerance, freedom, education, opportunity.

The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.

The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice.

The learnin' mind is the livin' mind, Meronym said, an any sort o'Smart is truesome Smart, old Smart or new high Smart or low.

How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?

At 60, the mind was sharp but the body complained. The legs were willing to make all the right moves but the muscles gave out too early.

In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.

...and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind

An unsatisfied appetite for knowledge means progress and is the state of a normal mind.

Adversity itself may lead toward and not away from God and spiritual enlightenment; and privation may prove a source of strength if we can but keep a sweetness of mind and spirit.

It's a closing of the mind that happens when you want to be lazy and go with the easiest answers, like the media do all the time in their sound bytes.

Try and inject into every commercial you make a touch of singularity; a bird that will hook on to the consumers mind

I know in my situation, my mind works more than everything else. I've been like that my whole career.

Sometimes when you're fighting, fighting, fighting, the mind needs some time off and you regroup and get back to normal.

I was into the music, but the idea of showing up places on time or having to tell people when you're not going to be somewhere - that just didn't even cross my mind.

...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

Radio has always been pictures of the mind; for me, the essence of radio has always been voices that talk to me and don't patronise me.

Healing is the process of reestablishing the integration between body, mind, and spirit, creating opportunities for the return of the memory of wholeness.

Meditation is like a bath for the mind; it clears and refreshes our windows of perception, allowing more light, love, and happiness to flow into lives.

The phrase 'sodomized by a bratwurst poltergeist' suddenly flew through my mind.

Beliefs are the eyelids of the mind.

I knew that the stronger that I was, the faster I was going to swim, and thats all I had in my mind at the time, was I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world.

I reserve the right to change my mind. But once I decide on something, I'm going to need a good reason to switch.

Our minds are big enough to contemplate the cosmos but small enough to care about who wins an Oscar

What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give your mind, heart, and soul. This is Grace.

Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.

A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness

Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul.

The mind can't take you where your heart longs to go.

...heaven may be only the mind's fear of the wonders it imagines.

I personally got to draw a take on a character that I've had in my mind since I was a teenager. That was pretty sweet!

Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe.

Forgiveness in the heart comes about when the walls of separation in the mind fall.

It is only because you take your mind to be yourself, and make it dwell on what you are not, that you lose your sense of well-being.

The more your mind is restful, the more you're capable of dynamic activity.

My colleagues thought I was an embarrassment because I was talking about mind, body, spirit. So I was called a quack. I was called a fraud, which I initially resented, but then I got used to it.

When we stop interfering and are wise enough to let the psychophysiological connection work for us instead of against us, our minds rush as quickly as possible towards perfect health.

When the mind is silent and quiet, then inner energies wake up and work miracles on your behalf without any conscious effort on your part.

When mind, body, and spirit are in harmony, happiness is the natural result.

Gregg Braden is a rare blend of a scientist, visionary, and scholar, with the ability to speak to our minds, while touching the wisdom of our hearts.

Reality is mind-made.