Mind Quotes
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Classical music always had a great influence on me. In fact some of my songs have a classical theme in mind.
Billy Joel
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The future is to heal back to the mind again. Recognizing that the mind is all powerful - it controls every cell to every degree of its genetic expression.
Bruce Lipton
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Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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Some people have heard of The Method, which originally goes back to Stanislavski... he gave you six major pointers whereby you became that character and tried to fool your mind psychologically. That's it in a nutshell. Daniel Day Lewis is an example of somebody like that who stays in character between takes.
David Wenham
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If you really want to find out something about immortality, you have to live in the mountain forests for 30 years. If you succeed in perfecting your eyes and ears there, if you harmonize the heart and the will so that your mind becomes clear and pure and free of all that is evil, you will be able to discuss the matter.
Wang Yangming
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My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.'
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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It's a movie that bewilders some viewers and mesmerizes others. A man I met while we were exercising our dogs told me it was the greatest film he had ever seen, and one of my editors claims it's the closest any movie has ever come to photographing the inside of his mind.
Peter Greenaway
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A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health.
Ellen G. White
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Change is the law of God's mind and resistance to it is the source of all pain.
Craig Ferguson
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Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability. Propositions, for instance, which set all the truth upon one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain, if they can enter at all, and sooner or later the mind expels them by instinct.
William Butler Yeats
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I have been Merlin wandering in the woods Of a far country, where the winds waken Unnatural voices , my mind broken By a sudden acquaintance with man's rage.
R. S. Thomas
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What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all.
Willie Mays
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It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one's mind is the essence of the Buddha's teaching.
Dalai Lama
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The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.
Learned Hand
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A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.
Elizabeth Missing Sewell
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We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.
Catherine Fahringer
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Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and good for the mind. It prevents the fruits of idleness, which many times come of nothing to do, and leads many to do what is worse than nothing.
William Penn
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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
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Desire is God tapping at the door of your mind, trying to give you greater good.
H. Emilie Cady
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The mind has an outlook which transcends the natural law by which it functions.
Arthur Eddington
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My body is a little bit sore from all of the practicing and playing and training, and your mind gets a little tired of it, too. It's nice to be able to recharge and come back fresh for the remainder of the year.
Tiger Woods
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You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.
Edward Moore