Rene Descartes Quotes
For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
Quotes to Explore
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.
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I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
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The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.
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I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
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When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
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Had 'Dhruva' not succeeded, I don't mind calling these films experimental.
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If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.
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If there were teenagers who had a video camera and saw what I did on a daily basis, they'd be bored out of their mind.
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Your look reflects what's happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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I feel vulnerable because my mind - because of the stroke, my mind doesn't focus. And then I feel vulnerable because I don't understand the world around me.
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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
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I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.
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Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.
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I couldn't beat people with my strength; I don't have a hard shot; I'm not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.
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I had the naive, simplistic idea that producers and writers and artists of the time helped in a minuscule way to change the mind-set of America.
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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Happiness is always a coincidence.
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Some people die, others just run out of fuel.
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Our ancestors relied upon their advanced brains to survive during times of food shortage, and fortunately, the human brain is able to utilize body fat as an extremely efficient fuel to sustain function when glucose-providing food is unavailable.
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What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
