Mind Quotes
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It appears these days I don't have much of a life because my nose is often stuck in a book. But I discovered that reading builds a life inside the mind.
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Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.'
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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
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I don't mind aging - I'm glad to be aging. I'll never die young.
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The mind passes in an instant from east to west; and all the great incorporeal things resemble these very closely in speed.
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If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
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Holiness is the habit of being of one mind with God, according as we find His mind described in Scripture. It is the habit of agreeing in God's judgment, hating what He hates, loving what He loves, and measuring everything in this world by the standard of His Word.
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Sometimes touring can warp reality because you're never in one place long enough to get a feel for it. You don't interact with people long enough to know what real life is. That's why a lot of artists write songs about longing and missing people when they're on the road. I do my best to keep my mind open and I read a lot when I'm on tour, so I hope I have good things to write about. I'm constantly in the songwriting process.
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Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.
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When you feel strong and you accomplish something physical that you didn't think you were capable of, your heart and mind open up to many possibilities that previously felt out of reach in other areas of your life.
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I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game.
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The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.
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Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.
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I needed reassurance from the doubts that were beginning to surface in my mind since I'd first given voice to them in conversation with Amy.
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The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures.
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The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
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As sight is in the eye, so is the mind in the soul!
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One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.
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My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.
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A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold, rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen, instead.
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Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
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If you disagree with them you may be tempted to interrupt. But don't. It is dangerous. They won't pay attention to you while they still have a lot of ideas of their own crying for expression. So listen patiently and with an open mind.
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It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.
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We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.
