Mind Quotes
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
Bodhidharma
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I've always thought of modeling as a performance, so I don't mind kind of pretending. I kind of pretend in a lot of my poses that I am a ballerina or a hip-hop dancer or a grunge performer.
Coco Rocha
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A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.
Antonio Damasio
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I don't mind playing somebody who's not likable, or makes the audience feel slightly conflicted.
James McAvoy
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My own heart let me more have pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind, Charitable; not live this tormented mind With this tormented mind tormenting yet.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents." Translation by Sharon Lebell.
Epictetus
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Is there a secret? Yes. Anaïs Nin and Pauline Réage and Anne Rampling and Erica Jong all knew it. E. L. James knows it. It is the secret behind all of our writing. And our reading. Arousal starts in the mind. And grows in the mind. The brain is the most erogenous zone in a woman’s body. That is our secret. And it is what we share.
M. J. Rose
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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
Douglas Adams
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If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.
Bill Gosper
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Drugs are a bet with your mind.
Jim Morrison The Doors
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Even when you disagree with her, she electrifies your mind.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
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There is nothing there. What you see is not what you see. What you see is nothing. Nothing but shapes, lines, colors. What you see is whats in your mind. What you see is something somebody told you to look for. Look out for anything you see! Watch it! Watch out! Take care! Don’t leap before you look out.
Ad Reinhardt
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For after all, a poster does more than simply supply information on the goods it advertises; it also reveals a society’s state of mind
Armin Hofmann
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I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym.
Joanna Lumley
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Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
William Warburton
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Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can imagine, and they can imagine very few things.
Madeleine de Souvre
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We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit.
Laurence Fishburne
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If you are mindful of death, it will not come as a surprise-you will not be anxious. You will feel that death is merely like changing clothes. Consequently, at that point you will be able to maintain your calmness of mind.
Dalai Lama
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Open your heart and mind like the wings of a butterfly. See then how high you CAN fly.
Zeenat Aman
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By visiting places of pilgrimage like Benares and Rameshvaram, a man cannot attain Mukti. What is essential is keeping the mind steady for a moment by introversion.
Bhagawan Nityananda
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You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams.
Jason Giambi
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Animism is a monist metaphysical stance, based upon the idea that mind and matter are not distinct and separate substances but an integrated reality, rooted in nature.
Emma Restall Orr
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I want my mind to be a sail, susceptible to any breeze that might be blowing across the lake of consciousness.
William Collins
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I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground.
Dominic West