Mind Quotes
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I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.
John O. Brennan
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You have absolute control over just one thing, your thoughts. This divine gift is the sole means by which you may control your destiny. If you fail to control your mind, you will control nothing else.
Napoleon Hill
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Does one scent appeal more than another? Do you prefer this flavor, or that feeling? Is your practice sacred and your work profane? Then your mind is separated: from itself, from oneness, from the Tao.
Lao Tzu
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The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind.
Rudolf Arnheim
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Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.
Ann Rule
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Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
Jim Valvano
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Anybody can be a hellene, by his heart, his mind, his spirit.
Socrates
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Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.
Aldo Leopold
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Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.
Patty Hearst
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You either control your mind or it controls you.
Napoleon Hill
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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
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If we go on as we are, we are protecting the mind of the American public from any real contact with the menacing world that squeezes in upon us. We are engaged in a great experiment to discover whether a free public opinion can devise and direct methods of managing the affairs of the nation. We may fail. But we are handicapping ourselves needlessly.
Edward R. Murrow
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I don't mind writing so I didn't find that difficult, it's just a question of finding the time to do it. I kind of like the direct connection with the fans actually, it's pretty neat.
David Cronenberg
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The mind has an outlook which transcends the natural law by which it functions.
Arthur Eddington
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Horror alone brings peace of mind.
Ernest Becker
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I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.
Dale Carnegie
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God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.
Blaise Pascal
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Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of positive attributes, a meeting of mind, body and soul that is all the more powerful as it is not weighed down with neediness and unreasonable expectation.
Mariella Frostrup
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One thinks of toys and play as an area of great novelty and potentiality where all sorts of responses can be developed. The fact that adults are allowing their imaginations to have activity through toy kinds of objects is a further reflection of the belief in the imagination of the adult mind.
Brian Sutton-Smith
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Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
Robert Frost
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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
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I used to measure the heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Although my mind was heaven-bound, the shadow of my body lies here.
Johannes Kepler
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Have Ithaka always in your mind. Your arrival there is what you are destined for. But don't in the least hurry the journey.
C.P. Cavafy
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Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart –The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd – To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom.
Lord Byron