Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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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.
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To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
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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.
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The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
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Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.
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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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No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.
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Some things tend not to work so well for science - things that rely on substantial written contributions by key experts are a case in point - but even there I tend to keep an open mind, because it may just be a case of finding the right formula.
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Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.
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Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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My wife being a trainer helps, because when I'm at home, everything we keep at the house is pretty healthy.
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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
