The Mind Quotes

In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the perfect mind to me.

I myself have seen the floating ships And nothing will ever be the same The shouts, The harrowing voices within the house. I stand apart with an army: My mind is graven with ships.

I have many, many old friends, and I always think that it's important, when you get into politics, to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand what's on their minds.

It wasn't until 1998 that I ever seriously thought about running for office. And I didn't make up my mind to do that until 1999, and then I ran for the Senate. It was really hard for me.

I still support the right of local communities to make up their own minds about whether or not they want to permit fracking.

You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind.

I don't really want to force anyone to feel a specific way, but if they can keep their body and mind "floating" with my music, that pleases me.

If you're talking 100 years, there's no doubt in my mind that all jobs will be gone, including creative ones. And 100 years is not far in the future - some of our children will be alive in 100 years.

When it comes to practically everything, we seem to be of two minds.

To my mind any phenomenon is paracinematic if it shares one element with cinema, e.g., modularity with respect to space and time.

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

Servants, when their lords no longer sway, Their minds no more to righteous courses bend.

There is no fouler fiend than a woman when her mind is bent to evil.

The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.

Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.

Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.

Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.

What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.

What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.

Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.

The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.

How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.

Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind.

Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.

The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.

Our present era, to my mind, is characterized by a profound forgetting of the past. "The future, the future, the future." The 21st century, all the technology obsession.

The interesting thing about doing press is that I learn what the album is about - I now know, a year later, looking back, what was on my mind at the time.

I don't mind being called a liberal. I just don't really think it's true.

All SEALS in my mind are equally elite. It doesn't matter if you're SEAL Team Two, One, Six, 10, it doesn't matter. All SEALS are equally elite.

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.

The dealer for a nickelLord, will sell you lots of sweet dreamsAh, but the pusher ruin your bodyLord, he'll leave your, he'll leave your mind to scream.

It is the energy projected by an individual's own mind which creates his experience.

I had girlfriends, but settling down was the last thing on my mind.

There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.

I'm kind of A.D.D., and so my mind wanders a lot.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don't mind admitting any of them.

I have always hated bowling, and I don't mind admitting it.

We came down here to see this teddible scene: people all pissed out of their minds and vomiting on themselves and all that and now, you know what? It's us

A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.

The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual nature".

As the mind shrinks at the will of the initiate, thought flows in to fill the spaces so created.

Mind is the Soul speaking and Conscience is the Spirit speaking.

The movie industry is one big collaboration. Music gives me that freedom to create things straight from my heart and my mind.