The Mind Quotes
I try to clear my mind of everything, I try to think of nothing. I just let my body act, the body can take control and do what it's trained to do.
Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.
When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started...
Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.
Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is élan, esprit de corps and determination.
To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.
I've always found drugs and alcohol somewhat pedestrian. It's like, I don't need an external agent to open my mind. I'm here, conscious, alert, present. Why would I alter that?
Follow your bliss. That which you love you must spend your life doing, as passionately and as perfectly as your heart, mind and instincts allow.
The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.
You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be.
As a handful of sand thrown into the ocean, so are the sins of all flesh as compared with the mind of God.
To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.
I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.
Any idea that is held in the mind, that is emphasized, that is either feared or revered, will begin at once to cloth itself in the most convenient and appropriate form available.
There is no longer serious doubt in my mind that human life exists from the very onset of pregnancy.
No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly
Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that requires peace of mind.
But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes. the subconscious identically creates.
It doesn't matter how you grew up, or what you've struggled with in life - your mind is unscathed by any circumstance you've yet to live... and it's phenomenally powerful.
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds. Have no fear for atomic energy, 'Cause none of them can stop the time.
Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart. The important things.
Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
The ultimate source of my mental happiness is my peace of mind. Nothing can destroy this except my own anger.
I watched the land for as long as I could, until it disappeared behind its shawl of mist, and until I had it fixed in my mind - unchanged, mysterious and beautiful
Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he's got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw away things, lose them, and find lightness.
Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true liberation.
