Rene Descartes Quotes

For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.

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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.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • People
  • Mind
  • Man

• 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.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Always

• I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Morning

• 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.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Lazy
  • Concentrate

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

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Reading

• When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Habit

• 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.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Had 'Dhruva' not succeeded, I don't mind calling these films experimental.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Mind
  • Calling
  • Experimental

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

  

  Jack Benny
  • Mind
  • Funny
  • Matter

• 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.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Mind
  • Compelling

• 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.

  

  Ian Harding
  • Mind
  • Daily
  • Bored

• Your look reflects what's happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.

  

  Nas
  • Mind
  • You
  • Look

• 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.

  

  Ram Dass
  • World
  • Mind
  • Focus

• A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Stretch

• I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • People
  • Mind
  • Laugh

• 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.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Music
  • Mind
  • May

• 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.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • People
  • Work
  • Mind

• 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.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Mind
  • America

• I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.

  

  Eric Davis
  • Mind
  • School
  • High

• I thought it was possible that O.J. could have done something. It crossed my mind. I was thinking about the events of everything and going, Why did I hear that? I was going, No, it can't be, and just all that stuff was adding up.

  

  Kato Kaelin
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Truth
  • Small

• If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social.

  

  William Weld
  • Political
  • Opportunity
  • Economic

• When you're experiencing what's happening right now, all of a sudden everything that happened to you in your entire life melts away.

  

  Bryan Kest
  • Life
  • Experiencing

• For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Mind
  • Prime
  • Possessed