The Mind Quotes

I do yoga daily as well. I need to start the day with some sort of physical activity. That combined with the meditation clears my mind and energizes me.

We can say what we need to say. We can gently, but assertively, speak our mind. We do not need to be judgmental, tactless, blaming or cruel when we speak our truths.

Money is not evil. There is no scarcity, except in our mind and attitudes. And what we believe we deserve will be about what we shall receive.

If I had a dollar for every time I smiled secretly having you in my mind I think my bank account would show up millions.

I'm a humanist. I'm an observer. I have a very scientific mind. I believe metaphysics and science absolutely blended are more the truth for me. It doesn't work just believing in what somebody says.

After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind.

That consciousness of quality, and the need to demand it can galvanize your energies, not just in your work, but in a rigorous exercise of mind and heart in every aspect of your life.

I'm at a point where I let my mind go with flow of the music I'm making and it's not interrupted by me trying to please everybody.

I like well-made clothes, and I don't mind spending a lot of money on something that looks super, super simple. I don't like knockoffs.

The moment that you start to read a script, you're watching the movie in your mind, and that's the one moment that you have. Then, you go off to make the movie and you become so lost in it.

When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

Nobody's going to go home for a year and come back. Nobody could ever enforce that. Nobody in their right mind would ever try to do it.

[Comics] were viewed as the literary equivalent of bubblegum cards, meant to be poked into the spokes of a young mind where they would produce a satisfying but entirely bogus rumble of pleasure.

You've got to get your mind connected to the workout. Pay attention to what your body's doing. It's about connecting mind and the body. Visualize the muscles moving.

The peace you seek is there, it's there between all the traffic in your mind, stop and rest for peace will find you if you let it.

No one sane would let a first-century dentist fill their children's teeth. Why then do we allow first-century theologians to fill our children's minds?

I don't mind the job of saying to white people, "Yes, this is what I think you need to know, this is what I think you've been missing." And it's my job to educate white folks every day.

I consider all my films an experiment, at least in my mind.

As you embrace the process-oriented approach described in The Practicing Mind, you'll achieve better results in any endeavor.

A curious mind armed with skill, experience, knowledge, and patterns can give birth to big brand revolution.

I have a nineteen-month old daughter. I totally don't mind devoting time to her. When you have a kid, it's hard to go out to the movies. I really don't know what's going on with comic book movies.

You can anchor the mind into answering a question a certain way by giving them a totally unrelated piece of information dropped before.

When designing a kitchen, always keep in mind the social aspect.

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decision, not mine. I'm going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart.

There's always a tension in my world between the pragmatic and the practical and the theoretical. I have a very theoretical turn of mind, but I also like to test things in place.

I like girls who don't mind that I hang out with my friends.

Listening is harvesting what is in the speaker's mind.

There's nothing worse than poisoning our children's minds.

Wait. Look. Notice. If you keep those three words in mind, you just might survive the next few days.

To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.

If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.

Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.

The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.

Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?

I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.

I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it.

Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.

A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.

The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and without eccentricity.

For me, surviving Compton is surviving the men, because Suge and Dre are from Compton. So in my world, in my mind, I survived their mentality.

When you work on a character, you form in your mind an image of what he ought to look like. Then you go and find one who resembles him.

If I have to try and write one more country single, I'll lose my mind.

My goal is to be a great-looking 70-year-old! I won't mind being 70, but I want people to say, "You're 70?"

I went to court-reporting school to study stenotyping. After awhile, whenever anybody spoke, in my mind my fingers would be punching it out. Even two years after I quit, my mind still did that.

Is this some sort of test?" "Everything that doesn't kill you is." "Mind you," he added, "surviving doesn't always mean you passed.

I don't mind when I hit a ball in the woods. I think of it as an adventure. That's when golf really starts to get interesting.

We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage.

The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we know. Albert Einstein said that if he were not a physicist, he would probably be a musician.

If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe.