Mind Quotes

• And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them; as if there is an unconscious healing process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.

  

  Colleen McCullough
  • Up
  • Memories
  • Process

• With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.

  

  Marketa Irglova
  • Music
  • Character
  • Feeling

• I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

  

  John Cheever
  • Mind

• I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.

  

  Eric Davis
  • School
  • High
  • Baseball

• The great thing in hitting is, not to be half-hearted about it; but when you make up your mind to hit, to do it as if the whole match depended upon that particular stroke.

  

  W. G. Grace
  • Up
  • Great
  • Half

• You can drive yourself crazy and tie yourself in knots trying to anticipate what someone's going to like or not like, and doing test screenings and opinion polls. But pay too much mind to that, and you'll wind up with a big pile of mush.

  

  Kevin Feige
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Crazy

• I have a temperament that doesn't adapt well to politics. It's because I speak my mind so much.

  

  Joaquim Barbosa
  • Mind

• See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body.

  

  Yagyu Munenori
  • Eyes
  • Eye
  • Determination

• A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.

  

  Zeno of Citium
  • Bad
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• Why does my brain insist on counting the steps every time I walk up a flight of stairs? I just can't help myself. There's something about my mind that always wants to keep counting.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Up
  • Time
  • Why

• A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Mind
  • Danger

• I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Family
  • Man
  • Light

• When I think about 'Since U Been Gone,' I think the first thing that comes to mind is 'Livin' On A Prayer' - they're kind of like sisters, a little bit. And 'Call Me Maybe' was so wildly original, and so quirky, and so satisfying.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Mind
  • Prayer

• There is no difference in our souls...That is what yoga teaches. When you and I meet together, we forget ourselves -- our cultures and classes. There are no divisions, and we talk mind to mind, soul to soul. We are no different in our deepest needs. We are all humans.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Different
  • Together
  • Soul

• Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • War
  • Earth
  • Poverty

• The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Mind
  • Buddha

• When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Mind
  • Truth

• There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Inspiration
  • Strength
  • Repose

• Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Kind
  • Effort
  • Relax

• I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Think

• As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Good
  • Mind

• Perseverance is the essential requirement in the practice of yoga. It has to be done day by day, week by week, year by year, until the mind is brought to the 'still point' where it is open to the grace of God.

  

  Bede Griffiths
  • God
  • Done
  • Practice

• When I go home and get off tour, I'd like to have a peace of mind. I like to chill. I don't like everything to be all chaotic like how it is when I step outside, you know?

  

  Micheal Ray Stevenson
  • Home
  • Peace
  • Chill

• It's not my fault that people don't know me. I'm going to speak my mind, no matter what the consequences are.

  

  Randy Moss
  • People
  • Mind
  • Speak

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