Mind Quotes
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One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
Edward Albee
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The thing with 'Mortal Kombat' is we really deal with that: What is the right thing to do? When somebody does something bad, do you, then, in your mind, rectify the situation by doing something bad to them?
Mark Dacascos
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It is possible for every man to go deep within and saturate his conscious mind with inner happiness with that unlimited intelligence that dwells at the source of thought.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Faith is a state of mind which may be induced, or created, by affirmation or repeated instructions to the subconscious mind, through the principle of auto-suggestion.
Napoleon Hill
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I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I've lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow.
Ziggy Marley
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the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes
T. S. Eliot
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The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Remember this son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can’t sing. Words have to find a man’s mind before they can touch his heart. And, some men’s minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly, no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.
Patrick Rothfuss
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Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.
Dave Winer
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Posh people blow my mind. Apart from empathy, they're good at everything - true survivalists.
Katherine Ryan
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Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.
Francis Bacon
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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.
Eliza Farnham
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What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. What is the soul? It is immaterial.
Thomas Hood
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In the extraordinary ancestral compost heap of your unconscious mind, I have burrowed too long.
Brian Aldiss
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I lived so completely in my mind - a place of unchecked delusion and complete fantasy!
Jenny Zhang
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Being a great horseman does not rely on physical strength but more on the mind and sensibility.
Charlotte Casiraghi
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I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.
Faith Ringgold
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You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind.
Paula Abdul
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Bookstores contain groceries for the mind!
Jen Selinsky
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IT'S PRETTY HARD for the Lord TO GUIDE YOU IF YOU HAVEN'T MADE UP YOUR MIND WHICH WAY TO GO.
Sarah Breedlove
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The ego always needs to be 'doing,' and repeating a mantra guides my mind to a deeper, less active experience.
Jeff Kober
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Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.
Jules Feiffer
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Big religion was started with one goal in mind: to make money. And I'm not knocking anyone's faith, because I think there are a lot of good values to be found in any faith. But when any faith starts to get in the way of love, that's where you can tell that greed and fear have stepped in and that those things come from man.
James Edward Olliges Jr.
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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
James Humes