Rene Descartes Quotes

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

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• I don't mind having these relatives. I'll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Mind
  • Victory
  • Give

• There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Song

• I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.

  

  Tecumseh
  • People
  • Mind
  • Rules

• I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Reading

• For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Know

• I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Mind
  • Past
  • Day

• At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Important
  • Country
  • Book

• I think, for every phase of your life, you take something out of it, you learn from it, you grow from it. You just have to try to take what you can from it and then move on to the next phase of your life to be better.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Better

• If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Mind
  • Funny
  • Matter

• Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Mind
  • Money
  • Unhappy

• Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I'd rather be involved and somebody say, 'Hey, coach, here's what I need you to do. Go down to the D-League and work with guys'... I want the D-League coach to learn how to be a head coach.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Work
  • Want
  • Learn

• When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.

  

  Abdullah Ibrahim
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Knowledge

• When you're headlining, people are paying to come see you specifically. It's a different kind of pressure, because you've got to deliver. You've got to give these people what they paid for. It's a different mind state, a different type of mentality, but it's honestly a pretty good problem to have, you know?

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Mind
  • Heaven
  • Spirit

• I love road trips. If you haven't been on one in a while, it's time to put a trip on your calendar. Driving can help clear the cobwebs of your mind, and you can learn a lot about your fellow Americans while you're at it.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Love

• Perhaps cliche is nothing more than the weight of the past pinning down your mind. In this sense, imaginative freedom is a way of finding the future, though it isn't so easy to do.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Mind
  • Future
  • Past

• All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of the mind.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Mind
  • Emotional
  • Conviction

• A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it.

  

  Judy Davis
  • Mind
  • Directors
  • Killers

• Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Courage
  • Leadership
  • Lying

• Economic crimes are complex in nature, difficult to untangle, and they must be investigated according to the procedures set by the law.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Law
  • Difficult
  • Crime

• There are good and bad movies, and long ones, and pretentious ones, and fun ones, and it's kind of healthy not just being able to switch off after ten minutes, but have patience.

  

  Susanne Bier
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Healthy

• In France, I have lots of opportunities. Maybe now I'll be offered films in America. It's the encounter, with the director and the story that counts.

  

  Jean Dujardin
  • America

• In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Mind
  • Learn
  • In Order