Mind Quotes
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Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.
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Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.
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I was downright obnoxious. In second grade, we had some program where we kept a public list of all the books we read. I think it even included the number of pages. In my nerdy mind, having the longest and most impressive list was somehow going to make up for the fact that I couldn't climb a rope or do a backwards summersault in PE.
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Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
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What we do as comics can be a service to people. It can make them laugh and take their mind off their problems for a few minutes.
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In my mind, I still think - and wish - that I'm going to be a journalist or a writer. That's been my dream job my entire life.
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I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.
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A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words.
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The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to.
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If you get your mind right, you get your life right.
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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.
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Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.
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Christ did not make the atonement when he shed his blood upon the cross. Let this fact be fixed forever in the mind.
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I wish I could help everyone to understand this one simple fact: we believe in God because of things we know with our heart and mind, not because of things we do not know. Our spiritual experiences are sometimes too sacred to explain in worldly terms, but that doesn't mean they are not real.
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Since we desire the true happiness that is brought about by a calm mind, and such peace of mind arises only from having a compassionate attitude, we need to make a concerted effort to develop compassion.
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You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.
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There is no mysterious essence we can call a 'place'. Place is change. It is motion killed by the mind, and preserved in the amber of memory.
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My father is an amazing guy - he's a total, total patriot... He loves America ... and he says what's on his mind... He's not like the typical politician who has to pander to everybody.
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For as we abolish the ills and pains of the flesh we multiply those of the mind, so by the time mankind are finally delivered from disease and decay - all pasteurised, their genes counted and re-arranged, filled with new replaceable plastic organs, a
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We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being dropped into our laps for us to create human-machine interfacing, control of genetic material, redefinition of social reality, re engineering of languages, revisioning of the planetary ecology, all these things fall upon us.
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my mind is a world in itself, which I have peopled with my own creatures.
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The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence is inherent in everything that is alive, allowing our yearning for supernatural miracles to be subsumed by our joy in the countless miracles that surround us.
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This whole world is mind's world, the product of the mind.
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
