Mind famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
-- A. A. Milne -
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
-- A. E. Housman -
If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude...
-- A. E. Housman -
Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.
-- A. G. Mohan -
The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.
-- A. G. Mohan -
Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
-- A. H. Almaas -
The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
-- A. N. Wilson -
You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.
-- A. Powell Davies -
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.
-- A. R. Ammons -
The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.
-- A. S. Byatt -
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
-- A.C. Grayling -
Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?
-- A.J. Ayer -
Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them
-- A.J. Cronin -
A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind.
-- A.L. Kennedy -
And unlike the rest of you, he hasn’t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he won’t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.
-- Aaron Allston -
Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadron’s mission." "We don’t mind running. Even when we don’t have to.
-- Aaron Allston -
The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.
-- Aaron Copland -
The road to national rebirth is a hard one, but there is no other.
-- Aaron David Miller -
Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
-- Aaron Hill -
Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.
-- Aaron Hill -
If I can slow it down in my mind, things will be fine.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
Playing behind a first-ballot Hall of Famer, who also is the all-time record holder for consecutive starts by a quarterback, it's a different mind-set. You just have to challenge yourself in ways that you never challenged yourself before.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.
-- Abdoulaye Wade -
A developed India by 2020, or even earlier, is not a dream. It need not be a mere vision in the minds of many Indians. It is a mission we can all take up - and succeed.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension
-- Abdul Kalam -
The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.
-- Abdullah Ibrahim -
No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
-- Abel Stevens -
Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
-- Aberjhani -
The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
-- Abigail Adams -
As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
-- Abraham Verghese -
Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.
-- Abraham Zaleznik -
You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
I'd rather stimulate your mind than emulate your purpose
-- Aceyalone -
We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.
-- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -
I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I don't mind.
-- Adam Foulds -
So thirsty," Jack groaned. "So worried,"said the frog. I hope we don't starve to death." "Yes,"said Jill, "not starving to death would be nice." "So would not thirsting to death," said Jack "Thirsting isn't even a word," said Jill "It isn't?" "No." "Then what's the word?" "I dont know. You just can't." "Oh." This is, of course, the kind of inane conversation that occurs when people are slowly losing their minds.
-- Adam Gidwitz -
Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.
-- Adam Gopnik -
Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
-- Adam Gopnik -
Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
-- Adam Gopnik -
There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.
-- Adam McKay -
I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
-- Adam Osborne -
Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.
-- Adam Savage -
By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world.
-- Adeline Yen Mah -
Keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as opportunity.
-- Adeline Yen Mah -
Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.
-- Adi Shankara -
The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.
-- Adi Shankara -
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.
-- Adolf Hitler -
No mind, no wisdom--tempora ry mind, temporary wisdom--eternal mind, eternal wisdom.
-- Adoniram Judson -
When I go out on the field, I just put it in my mind that I'm playing for my family.
-- Adrian Peterson -
I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
Britney Spears can't hold a conversation. (mind controlled) The ultimate meltdown was Britney Spears. But she (Spears) can't hold a conversation. No. They have someone who feeds her what she is supposed to say. Like she can't hold a conversation.
-- Adrienne Bailon -
I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
-- Adrienne Rich -
I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.
-- Adrienne Rich -
Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It's an openness to whatever is happening.
-- Adyashanti -
A meditative mind is at ease because it's not trying to acquire anything.
-- Adyashanti -
A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.
-- Adyashanti -
The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought.
-- Adyashanti -
The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.
-- Adyashanti -
This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it. It doesn't know where to find it.
-- Adyashanti -
The concept of absolute, hence (or whence) springs, in the moral field, the moral laws or norms, represent, in the field of knowledge, the principle of identity, which is the fundamental law of the thought; norms of logic springs from it, that govern the thought (or mind) in the field of science." ("Le concept de l'absolu, d'où découlent, dans le domaine moral, les lois ou normes morales, constitue, le principe d'identité, qui est la loi fondamentale de la pensée; il en découle les normes logiques qui régissent la pensée dans le domaine de la science.
-- African Spir -
Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow are going to blow your funky mind!
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
-- Agatha Christie -
The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.
-- Agatha Christie -
The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.
-- Agathon -
The greatest distance in the world is the 14 inches from our minds to our hearts.
-- Agnes Baker Pilgrim -
Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
-- Agnes Denes -
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
-- Agnes Martin -
Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
-- Agnes Martin -
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
-- Agnes Martin -
When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
-- Agnes Martin -
I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
-- Agnes Martin -
You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.
-- Agnes Martin -
I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect - completely removed in fact - even as we ourselves are.
-- Agnes Martin -
When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
-- Agnes Martin -
Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
-- Agnes Martin -
It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
-- Agnes Repplier -
The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
-- Agnes Repplier -
It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
-- Agnes Repplier -
When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
-- Agnes Repplier -
A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.
-- Aharon Appelfeld -
I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims with this question in mind: to what extent does it feed into existing stereotypes and established prejudice?
-- Ahdaf Soueif -
The most beautiful smile is the one for someone who isn’t there, who just popped on your mind.
-- Ahlam Mosteghanemi -
Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
-- Ahmed H. Zewail -
The hardest thing to open is a closed mind.
-- Ahmed Kathrada -
Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is! How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as 'facts.' Yes, I know that in this case one 'fact' was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a 'fact,' and act on it as if it were true.
-- Aidan Chambers -
Nothing should so occupy the mind of the Christian than discovering God each day.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer
