Mind Quotes
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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
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One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect upon me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
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The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me.
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You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.
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Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.
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When Andy died, I just drank to dumb my mind.
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I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their soul and their mind that's taking place while they're writing music.
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I don't envy anybody else's career because I feel they've earned where they're at and worked hard. I wouldn't mind Jack White's gig, though. He does it all!
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow, and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined.An icy sweetness fills my mind, A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living, coiled, the spring.
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I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.
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The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
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We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body.
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The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying support on which the improvement of the human species rests. The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing [ Entwerfende ] part, the latter the executive part.
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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
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You can do anything you put your heart, mind and soul into. Far more than you can imagine. Be fearless. Do it.
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The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
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there's nothing in the human heart or mind, no place no matter how twisted or secret, that can't be endured - if you have someone to share it with.
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There is an objective reality in which my body and mind are one. But I am not here and never have been.
