Eqbal Ahmad Quotes

We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.

Eqbal Ahmad

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• I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Dark
  • Minds
  • Dark Side

• Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Religious
  • Minds
  • Normal

• I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • People
  • Change
  • Me

• Maybe all people with minds like Isaac's were the same. She knew he would make a much larger contribution than she ever would - he cared only about things much bigger than his own life. Ideas, truths, the reasons things were. As if he himself, his own existence, was somehow incidental.

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Ideas
  • Existence
  • Minds

• Minds ripen at very different ages.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Different
  • Minds
  • Ages

• People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.

  

  Han Suyin
  • People
  • Minds
  • Souls

• Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.

  

  Tami Hoag
  • Family
  • Hope
  • Minds

• We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Poetry
  • Generation
  • Minds

• 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.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • People
  • Up
  • Stuff

• 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.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Mind
  • Attention
  • Simple

• 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.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • People
  • Truth
  • Pretty

• 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.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Life
  • Nature

• I want to inspire people to really open up their minds and not be one-sided or biased or hypocritical.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • People
  • Up
  • Minds

• 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.

  

  Billy Joel
  • People
  • Live
  • Love

• Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Children
  • Minds
  • Resource

• We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Love
  • Light
  • Value

• Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Minds

• If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place. It is magical not because it tricks us or changes unexpectedly into something else, but because it can be so vividly and brilliantly.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • World
  • Eyes
  • Changes

• Most people, I suspect, still have in their minds an image of America as the great land of college education, unique in the extent to which higher learning is offered to the population at large. That image used to correspond to reality. But these days young Americans are considerably less likely than young people in many other countries to graduate from college. In fact, we have a college graduation rate that's slightly below the average across all advanced economies.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • People
  • America
  • Image

• Old-school Dire Straits songs are on heavy rotation: 'So Far Away,' 'Romeo and Juliet' and of course 'Sultans of Swing.'

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • School
  • Far Away
  • Romeo And Juliet

• You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

  

  Alva Ross "AJ" Kitt IV
  • Guy
  • Control
  • Sports

• Silence, and then Eve said, "Okay, that was extra creepy, with whipped creepy topping. And this is me, changing my mind.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Mind
  • Silence
  • Creepy

• We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.

  

  Eqbal Ahmad
  • Minds
  • Dominated
  • Modern Times