The Mind Quotes

Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden

You have to live with your mind your whole life.

The mind has a complex life that can seem quite autonomous - dreams, obsessions, unwilled memory are all instances of this.

Immigration comes up, but the issue that is on everybody's mind is the economy.

Always live your life with your biography in mind," Dad was fond of saying. "Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly.

Her mind emptied of everything but the gusting wind and how fragile Wolf looked in that heartbeat, like one movement could break him open.

SCIENCE! thou fair effusive ray From the great source of mental Day, Free, generous, and refin'd! Descend with all thy treasures fraught, Illumine each bewilder'd thought, And bless my labour'g mind.

Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.

Fear in the mind causes stress in the body.

And then I thought that I had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to a remarkable degree so that I did not notice how much it was hurting inside my head.

Sufficient sleep, exercise, healthy food, friendship, and peace of mind are necessities, not luxuries.

The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.

I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.

Having a dog or cat will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind. Having both a pet and a book... absolute heaven.

Something really serious has shifted in the minds of Republicans and certainly others.

So in my mind I own a lot of house records still

Rowan Joffe is very specific. I mean, he wrote it as well and he has a very orderly writer's mind and the same applies to his directing.

I have confidence that whatever I set in my mind will happen. Everything I strived for I reached.

Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.

Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.

There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.

The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

What's exciting about using our mind is that we can short circuit all the excuses thrown up by our fears.

I wouldn't mind being taller or stronger.

I also fear that nothing really ends at the end. Things just keep going as long as memory can wield its ax, always finding a soft part in your mind to cut through and enter.

Dave Chappelle asked me to come do his show. I read the script, and I said, 'Has he lost his mind?'

current research is showing that true leaders enjoy using their power and are comfortable with it - so comfortable, in fact, that they don't mind sharing that control when it is appropriate to do so.

Empathy: Emptying our mind and listening with our whole being

NVC gives us tools and understanding to create a more peaceful state of mind.

Once the game begins, I play to that song in my head. I run to rhythm, and that allows my mind to be free.

It is perhaps typical of very creative minds that they hit very large nails not quite on the head.

The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever it appears in your mind.

When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author.

How dear to the mind of the sage are the thoughts that are bred in loneliness; for there is as it were music at his heart, and he talketh within him as with friends.

To be accurate, write; to remember, write; to know thine own mind, write. And a written prayer is a prayer of faith, special, sure, and to be answered.

Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter; For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay.

None is poor but the mean in mind, the timorous, the weak, and unbelieving; none is wealthy but the affluent in soul, who is satisfied and floweth over.

The sun of the mind, and the life of the heart is Wisdom. She is pure and full of light, crowning grey hairs with lustre, And kindling the eye of youth with a fire not its own.

For life, good youth, hath never an illWhich hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot kill;And stubborn realities never shall bindThe free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind.

Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas.

Rashly, nor ofttimes truly, doth man pass judgment on his brother; for he seeth not the springs of the heart, nor heareth the reasons of the mind.

Insight occurs just because it is high time.

There are three conversions necessary (for the Christian life): the conversion of the heart, the mind, and the purse.