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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Any guy in his right mind would die to play Batman.
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I'm keeping my fingers crossed and hoping everyone loves what I do and loves what's on screen.
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Nothing gets us down more than watching violence on television or reading about war and brutality in the newspaper. The truth is, there's a massive reduction in the amount of violence around the world.
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Well, no. I believe that it's not at all impossible that some of the performances that I've heard so far by some pianists may be superior to my own playing because those are two totally different acts altogether.
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Every role that I have taken on has demanded some kind of emotional range. I really, really would love to do a comedy, but that opportunity really hasn't opened up.
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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
