Mind Quotes

• Trust arises from the mind's instinctive feeling after fixed realities, after the substance of every shadow, the base of all appearance, the everlasting amid change.

  

  James Martineau
  • Feeling
  • Trust
  • Shadow

• The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

  

  Jerome Lawrence
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Soul

• Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.

  

  Gene Fowler
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Enemy

• poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.

  

  Vernon Lee
  • Up
  • World
  • Nature

• Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others' retiring.

  

  Mary Wortley Montagu
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Passion

• 'An Unquiet Mind' wasn't hard to write in terms of the actual writing of it.

  

  Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Writing
  • Mind

• The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with the most perfect ease, so much so, that I have no recollection whatever of learning the alphabet

  

  Nat Turner
  • Great
  • Perfect
  • Learning

• I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.

  

  Audrey Tautou
  • Mind
  • American

• Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Mind
  • Art

• The most glorious vision of the intellectual life is still that which is loosely called humanist: the idea of a mind committed yet dispassionate, ready to stand alone, curious, eager, skeptical. The banner of critical independence, ragged and torn though it may be, is still the best we have.

  

  Irving Howe
  • Life
  • May
  • Alone

• I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind - an inability to chart a course whichever way the wind blows, whichever way the media encourages the people to go, you follow. If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • People
  • Wind
  • Ignore

• You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Soul

• If you can help other people understand those truths - and in my mind, the only way I know to do that is with large scale, multi-year research projects, where you start with a question and then very rigorously and comprehensively answer that question.

  

  James Collins
  • People
  • Help
  • Question

• We did this film in 13 days, mind you. And 13 days is not very long for a feature film. Nobody in their right mind would argue that. Nobody in their right mind would do that.

  

  Kurtwood Smith
  • Long
  • Mind

• Someone once inquired of a Far Eastern Zen master, who had a great serenity and peace about him no matter what pressures he faced, "How do you maintain that serenity and peace?" He replied, "I never leave my place of meditation." He meditated early in the morning and for the rest of the day, he carried the peace of those moments with him in his mind and heart.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Heart
  • Morning
  • Moments

• Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.

  

  John McDonald
  • Mind
  • House
  • Success

• I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.

  

  Lenny Kravitz
  • Mind
  • Reality

• Yoga makes my day better as I am less likely to fall victim to my otherwise foolish & forgetful mind.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Fall
  • Yoga
  • Foolish

• We need to create a world that is equitable, that is stable and a world where we bear in mind the needs of others, and not only what we need immediately. We are all in the same boat.

  

  Kofi Annan
  • World
  • Mind
  • Boat

• Rio 2016 is definitely on my mind, and I would really like to go to some more World Championships before that.

  

  McKayla Maroney
  • World
  • Mind

• It's very interesting to think about the distinction with mind, which I just made in very general terms, but it can be made more profound when we think that there are many species, many creatures on earth that are very likely to have a mind, but are very unlikely to have a consciousness in the sense that you and I have.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Earth
  • Interesting
  • Profound

• An organized mind leads effortlessly to good decision-making.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Decision

• Everything is contemplated in the mind without meditation. We make a very complicated response. Just to look at a floating branch evokes very complicated objective and nonobjective responses. The artist must slow all this down, mentally. It is this mental experience that makes the representation of beauty possible.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Meditation

• Look, I want to be able to make the stupidest movies ever, because they make people laugh and they make money. But that's not all I want to do. And I think I've proven to some people - the ones paying attention - that I can do more. Everybody else, well, they can wait and see and make up their mind.

  

  Marlon Wayans
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

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