What Is Mind Quotes

Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.

Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.

Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies.

Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind - -vividly, forcefully.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago.

Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

Your mind is an automobile and words are your wheels.

After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.

When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.

And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.

I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.

It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate.

I know that he, Matthew Broderick, doesn't have his laundry done, and that he hasn't had a hot meal in days. That stuff weighs on my mind.

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

Never believe that body is permanent. Body is like a water bubble. Mind is like a mad monkey.

Your sight must become an insight; it must be turned within and used to purify and clarify your mind.

Make the mind, the voice and the actions agree in harmony. That is the right way of life.

All religions teach one basic discipline - the removal from the mind of the blemish of egoism, of running after little joys.

In my mind, so-called "cultures of innovation" really boil down to one word: curiosity.

The way I perform best is with a clear and happy mind.

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.

The problem with working with a coach isn't that we don't know what to do. The real problem is that we don't want to change our mind.

People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

The mind, of course, is just what the brain does for a living.

Training our mind through meditation does not mean forcibly subjugating it or beating it into shape.

Motivate the mind and set your body free!

I will catch a wave every day, even in my mind.

I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'

The only times that we can have what we long for are those moments when we stop grasping for it. At such times, all things are possible: "to a mind that is 'still' the whole universe surrenders".

I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.

And I flunked anger management the moment I put the counselor through a stone wall. You might want to keep that in mind. [Thorn]

If it turns out that Mario doesn't really fit into the type of game I want, I wouldn't mind using Zelda as the basis of the new game.

If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one.

Our mind should be free from traces of the past, just like the flowers of spring.

The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the experts, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all possibilities.

Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.

Big mind is something to express, not something to figure out. Big mind is something you have, not something to seek for.

Neither the wrath of Heaven nor the attacks of enemies are as fatal as Pleasure alone when she infects the mind.

I hate belongings. I hate clutter. It really bothers me because I can't think properly. If you've got distractions in front of you, your mind goes nuts.

I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.

Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.

Still the bubbling mind; herein lies freedom and bliss eternal.