The Mind Quotes

The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.

Life is not the body; it is not the mind; it is not the soul. It is a force.

Our minds have the need to know. When we dont know we make assumptions - they make us feel safer than not knowing. And we are pretty much always making assumptions.

All around the world, people believe that there is a great conflict between good and evil. Well, it's true that there's a conflict, but it only exists in the human mind.

You aren't staying in heaven because you still need to purify the mind. Your faith is powerful, but it is invested in what you believe you are, and most of what you believe about yourself is a lie.

Every prayer is an agreement with yourself. The mind is asking the real you, which is life, to guide your decisions for every single choice that you make.

If I worry about what everybody is saying, there is going to be a lot on my mind. I don't want that. I want to do everything I can to play basebal.

He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.

I would not describe myself as a left-wing filmmaker. I don't think this is the first thing that would pop into my mind when talking about my work.

Strength of body, strength of mind, strength of character, qualities to be admired in any person.

When a book is read an irrevocable thing happens — a murder, followed by an imposture. The story in the mind murders the story on the page, and takes its place.

I think Donald Trump always speaks straight from his mind and straight from his heart.

No one who isn't an extremist can understand the mind of an extremist.

Dads - and people in general - should keep in mind that we as mothers put enough pressure on ourselves. We don't need outside pressure put on us.

I didn't get the Russian Jew part because they didn't think I looked Russian or Jewish enough - and, mind you, I am both Russian and Jewish - so I was cast as the racist Mexican.

My Dad always told me that casting agencies are like artists picturing their paintings in their mind. They know what they want for a role and not to take it too seriously [if I dont get the part].

I like keeping my mind as far away from money and the material aspects of my job as possible.

Your painting is a measure of your mind.

Beauty is the mind, heart and balls of the person seeking to be beautiful.

In my mind, the sexiest thing in the world is the feeling that you’re wanted.

If I can muster up any allure in my life, at this stage, I wouldn't mind doing that.

Truthfully, I guess I would like to be remembered as a great writer and a kind person. I wouldn't mind if an expensive bag were named after me, like Jane Birkin.

A woman with a mind, a body with a soul. A heart full of love, that won't let go.

The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium.

Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams.

I nodded, pretending I was relaxed. I watched the sunlight sparkling on the water and practiced mind-body integration for a few seconds by quietly hyperventilating.

It's amazing the fantasies your mind can put together.

Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader.

This one commercial said, "Forget everything you know about slipcovers." So I did, and it was a load off of my mind. Then the commercial tried to sell slipcovers, but I didn't know what they were!

The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better.

If people are looking for someone who has never changed their mind and is unwilling to admit they make mistakes, that's not me.

I don't mind that people have questions and would look for someone to respond to their questions, particularly if their faith is not terribly well-known.

I honestly just love being in my studio working on music. That's all the inspiration I need. And I don't write with an end result in mind, I just write for the simple love of writing.

My parents always raised us with the idea of having college in mind. You sort of need a college education. It's part of life. It's something that you do - like going to your prom.

We dominate a horse by mind over matter. We could never do it by brute strength.

The mind can absorb no more than the seat can endure.

I tried to get into the mind of my opponent and psyche him out.

I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -

No mind should submit their mind to another mind He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still -- that's my motto. I won't be brainwashed.

Lasting change can occur only when it takes in the spirit of the mind.

The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.

Do not slip into writing for the mind and the mind alone. In other words, do not play merely upon our ability to reason. And do not focus only on visuals. Write for the whole person.

I wouldn't mind doing Broadway, but I am definitely trying to get a album out there first.

So the big, bad, and able-to-mind-control angel thinks you’re his. As in ‘I don’t share my woman.

We forget, we have a short memory and we're human. This morning my Scripture was Isaiah 26:3, which said, Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee for he trusteth in Thee.

Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.

When you do not know what to do or which way to turn, smile. This will relax your mind and let the sunshine of happiness into your soul.

Every mind needs friendly contact with other minds, for food of expansion and growth.

The Creator gave us the complete, unchallengable right of prerogative over the one thing, and only thing we own, our mind.

Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds.