Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Quotes to Explore
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I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
Larry Bird
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To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
Nancy Mitford
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I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.
Maggie Stiefvater
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It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
Nathalie Sarraute
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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
J. M. Coetzee
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Proactive giving is what you do when you've found your passion. It expresses your values, interests and concerns. It engages not just your dollars, but also your mind, time, skills and networks - the philanthropic equivalent of leaning in, rather than leaning back. Most importantly, proactive giving is something you want to do.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
Qandeel Baloch
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All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
Napoleon Hill
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I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
Oscar Levant
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It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.
Saint Ignatius
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The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
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Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.
Sam Kean
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
Galileo Galilei
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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.
Jack Youngblood
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Nothing that the mind of man can conceive is impossible.
Orison Swett Marden
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I constantly compare myself to artists who have, like, 10 times the budget I do. My mind is the biggest challenge, honestly.
Verite
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An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.
Cynthia Ozick
