John Locke Quotes
If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.
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Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
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Minds ripen at very different ages.
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People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.
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Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.
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We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating. There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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I'm about what goes through people's minds. The stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches.
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In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.
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I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
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Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.
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I want to inspire people to really open up their minds and not be one-sided or biased or hypocritical.
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As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
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The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.
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Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.
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Children are happy because they don't yet have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong." They don't have a mind-set that puts "Things to Fear" before "Things to Love." Unless we can be like little children, we can't enter into the kingdom of heaven; unless we can be like little children, we can't be happy. Children are happy because they don't have all the facts yet.
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Old-school Dire Straits songs are on heavy rotation: 'So Far Away,' 'Romeo and Juliet' and of course 'Sultans of Swing.'
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I just like doing standup, that's all I'm interested in or good at.
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If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.
