Mind Quotes
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
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I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.
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Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.
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Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
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He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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The sword was odd. The Arab Movement was one: Feisal another (his name means a flashing sword): then there is the excluded notion, Garden of Eden touch: and the division meaning, like the sword in the bed of mixed sleeping, from the Morte d'Arthur. I don't know which was in your mind, but they all came to me - and the sword also means clean-ness, and death.
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A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind.
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When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon.
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Actually I made up the term 'object-oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.
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Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.
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We're living in what I like to call the 'Thank You Economy,' because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old-fashioned way - and do it authentically - are going to have a prayer of competing.
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I've always been like this - insecure - because I'm striving for something that can't be attained. I don't just want to be OK at this: I want to be the best at it, and I've never achieved that in my mind.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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A secret is a secret in my mind.
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Any fool can make a ruleAnd every fool will mind it.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly - with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.
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It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
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Endurance is mind over matter.
