Mind Quotes
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Mindfulness is defined as nonjudgmental, investigative, kind, and responsive awareness. This sort of awareness takes intentional training of the mind.
Noah Levine
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I didn't write with a target audience in mind. What excited me was how much I would enjoy writing about Harry. I never thought about writing for children - children's books chose me. I think if it is a good book anyone will read it.
Joanne Rowling
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I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.
bell hooks
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I think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it's possible.
Viola Davis
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The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind.
Red Auerbach
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I can tell you that from the director's chair, young actors love to be challenged, to be given killer lines that take time to wrap their mind around.
Mark Waters
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The faculty of continual transformation... is a profound expression of the dynamic character of the mind.
Anagarika Govinda
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If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.
Sue Grafton
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A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
Gene Fowler
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
Rene Descartes
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We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
C. S. Lewis
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We cherish right and we cherish left, but more important, we cherish when you are able to use the whole mind that you were born with.
Angela Ahrendts
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Every problem offers an opportunity for a solution. if you are in the right frame of mind to find it.
Michael Arndt
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I worked on 'Cadillactica' with the mind to not sample as much and focus on creativity.
Justin Scott
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Yes, my kids come first, but as a parent I need to come to them with a fresh mind. I can't be too exhausted or too tired. And I am a better parent when I have more energy.
Molly Ringwald
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I must say here in France I had more serenity or security as I was working because I knew I was making the film the way I wished and that the film would be seen, ultimately, which is not always the case in Iran. In Iran, you always work having in mind this worry of will I be able to carry on my project as I wish and will the audience see the film.
Asghar Farhadi
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I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.
Edgar Allan Poe
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People used to say to my friend Mary, a quadriplegic, 'You still have your mind.' She would say, 'I still have my body.' The world tells me to divorce myself from my flesh, to live in my head. ... I didn't want to be fleshless.
Anne Finger
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My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.
Meg Rosoff
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I wouldn't mind being a talent show judge if it didn't run for too long.
Cilla Black
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I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.
Graham Nash
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My life and my mind, I realized, were screwed up enough without me adding to it with drugs.
M. William Phelps