Mind Quotes
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The thing that you learn in directing is that when you're on the floor, no matter how complex the shooting is...you have to remain absolutely sensitive to every nuance of the behavior of the people around you. Because, ultimately, if you don't keep in mind the overall humanity, then the machine takes over and suddenly all you have are technically fine shots, technically good performances. The story's being told, but something's lacking, something mysterious, indefinable.
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So I humbly accept the honor, keeping in mind the words of a British playwright, John Mortimer it was, 'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense and relatively clean fingernails.' Well at best I've got one of the two of those.
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So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.
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I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series of opinions, and if it's a good work of art, these opinions become so deeply embedded in complexity and richness that I won't even be bothered by the opinions. I'll make my own mind up.'
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-But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.
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I really didn't have any childhood. When you don't know where you are going to sleep for the night.. or find food.. you can't think with the mind of a child. You have to think with the mind of a man.
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Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.
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I understand that people have a critical mind towards my position. And receive a lot of confusion too.
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The characteristic of the really great writer is the ability of his mind to to suddenly leap beyond his ordinary human values, into sudden perception of universal values.
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There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.
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For Komen, for myself, the mission was always foremost in everyone's mind. The mission and the women that we serve. The only group that made this issue political has been Planned Parenthood.
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It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.
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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.
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What the human mind can conceive and believe it can accomplish.
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I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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It is a curious foible of a certain type of mind that it is unable to imagine a newspaper editor as one who may, on some public questions, honestly have the same view as that held by other persons.
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I once got sacked for laughing ... mind you, I was driving a hearse at the time.
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Your mind believes what you tell it.
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How many Buddhists does it take to change a lightbulb? Many in body, one in mind.
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One of the things that I miss the most about cricket and batting in particular is that meditation of cricket, that involvement of myself - mind, body and spirit - to delivering that one specific process, which is to execute a cricket shot. It is a beautiful feeling; it is very hard to replicate.
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In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.
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What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
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Inspiration comes from a clear mind. Right straight through. We have nothing to do with it.
