What Is Mind Quotes

It is not that sport, over-indulged in, coarsens the mind; it is that it dulls it.

I have no idea what my limits are. I believe that if I set my mind to it, within the next fifteen years, I would be the President of the United States.

I set myself challenges every time I work. Ideally I approach everything as though it's the first time - with a beginner's mind and an amateur's love.

Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the leveling wind.

The only thing that can stop you is the doubt that you carry in your mind.

Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.

Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.

When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer.

Impossible, that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.

Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.

How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

Would the cook were o' my mind!

It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.

Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Excellent value relative to the week investment of time....To my mind, this is the definitive course on leadership.

But without effort [God] sets in motion all things by mind and thought.

But a haiku by Buson came into his mind: 'I try to forget this senile love; a chilly autumn shower.' The gloom only grew denser.

When you burn the chair, you suddenly realize that the chair in your mind did not burn or disappear

Not recognizing natural mind is simply an example of the mind's unlimited capacity to create whatever it wants.

I do not really believe there is such a thing as al-Qaida, the organization; there is al-Qaida, the mind-set

As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.

You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.

Review your list as often as you need to get them off your mind.

The motion of the mind is conveyed along a cloud of meaning.~ There is this paradox that we get to meaning only when we strip the meaning from symbols.

Your every act can open hearts and minds.

Whatever I hold in my mind tends to manifest itself in my life. What we believe and assume creates most of our reality and our experience.

I'm just finding that when I'm sitting down and drawing the pages, it always takes me in a different direction than what I had in mind in my head.

The mind may find unique ways to express what it conceives of reality, but reality remains unchanged by the mind's efforts.

Keep in mind that your individual vote doesn't mean anything.

...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.

Movement is the unifying bond between the mind and the body, and sensations are the substance of that bond.

The most insane things can become normal if you have them around you long enough. A mind can’t seem to hold anything too crazy for too long without finding a way to make it seem normal.

In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds.

A quiet mind is more important than a positive mind.

The difference between my world record and many world class runners is mental fortitude. I ran believing in mind over matter.

What's fascinating about acting is that you put yourself in somebody else's mind or in their shoes.

I don't believe in hours and hours of meditation. The mind gets tired and starts to fold in on itself.

Being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do.

I get audited almost every year.And in a way, I should be complaining. I'm not even complaining. I don't mind it. It's almost become a way of life. I get audited by the IRS. But other people don't.

You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not.

I trust my instincts. I don't distrust them. They haven't led me astray. It's when I've made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.

For a few minutes, everything is so cute that the mind reels.... And then, believe it or not, things get worse. So I shot myself.

I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.

What good is all the cash if it doesn't buy time and what good is bein famous if I'm never on your mind?

The thing that has been weighing on my mind this week is that I wanted to go and save all the little live lobsters in restaurants and throw them back in the ocean. Imagine me being arrested for that.

I know I have a first-rate mind, but that's no source of pride to me. Intelligent people are a dime a dozen. But I am proud of having character.

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

things which in my mind blossom will stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear capable of fragility and indecision

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.