Mind Quotes
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Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.
William Christopher Handy
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When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing political mechanism bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.
Ana Castillo
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Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position.
Viswanathan Anand
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The main problem is to free your mind when you play. I find that in my own playing, whenever I feel any kind of tension, I'm restricted to playing the most fundamental kinds of things.
Art Farmer
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I do not know what to do, my mind's in two.
Sappho
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To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
William Hazlitt
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I have definitely written a happy song about someone and then we ended up splitting up, but you have to put those kind of things to the back of your mind and tell yourself that it's a good song and it works on the album.
Joe Jonas Jonas Brothers
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Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.
Isaac Watts
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Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take.
Willis Harman
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The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms.
John Searle
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One has to keep in mind the countless human tragedies that played out in these days. Through the middle of a city, where several thousand connections existed daily, despite administrative division, the concrete pillars were driven into the border, which was expanded like a Chinese wall.
Willy Brandt
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I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind. I want to come down to their physical limitations and up to their sense of wonder and awe.
Shinichi Suzuki
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The mornings themselves were becoming bad now as I wandered about lethargic, following my synthetic sleep, but afternoons were still the worst, beginning at about three o'clock, when I'd feel the horror, like some poisonous fog bank roll in upon my mind, forcing me into bed.
William Styron
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Joseph Addison
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Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.
Timothy Thomas Fortune
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The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.
Charles A. Reich
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Feel yourself grounded to the earth, while your mind is focusing on the sky of clarity.
Nawang Khechog
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
Philip James Bailey
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Have you seen these Japanese hospital droids, or humanoids, or whatever they call it? They've perfected the skin, and the skin looks so real. They have these motors between the eyes for when they smile. It's just mind-blowing.
Joel Kinnaman
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No matter what you do, your person comes through. You can't completely change yourself on the screen. I had in mind someone colder and more in control, but I couldn't do it. This human note just crept in and maybe it's better.
Leslie Caron
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You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.
Napoleon Hill
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Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.
Confucius
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Keep in mind that in 1975, when you became a cook, it was because you were between two things: you were between getting out of the military and... going to jail. Anybody could be a cook, just like anybody could mow the lawn.
Mario Batali
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I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
Brian Eno Roxy Music