Mind Quotes
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I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?
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The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.
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But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.
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By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine; but the exercise of ourselves in a visible way of worship, upon our believing it to be indispensably required at our hands, that if we neglect it for fear of favor of any mortal man, we sin and incur divine wrath.
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True love is so hard to find, and they say that once you found it you lost your mind.
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The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.
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He had called girls to him before. There was nothing so easy whether you were walking into a classroom, a club, or down the street. All you had to do was send out the right signals, give her the right look, turn your body the right way, and never for a moment let it cross your mind that she might not be interested.
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If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
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The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking people to pay. You don't play an instrument. You want people to pay to hear what's in your mind. You don't have low self-esteem. You might have other problems.
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Let your mind alone, and see what happens.
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Now and again, an actor will blow my mind by doing something really unexpected, like Mickey Rourke or Christopher Walken - you have absolutely no idea what they're going to do, which is really thrilling to watch.
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You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind.
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If you're asking me what I love, it's that point where I'm just scribbling and trying to make myself laugh and trying to outrage myself. Getting in that frame of mind where the more you laugh the more you laugh - I think that's what I'm attempting to do.
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This recording was very special in the sense that I was free to create and play my best. Chick is a very intelligent person and sensitive to people and situations. ... The way he communicates is not going to close your mind, it's going to open your mind.
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Color is just in a small area of our vision, and the rest we add with the mind.
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To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.
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This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture... The basic attitude from which such activity arises, we call-to distinguish it from egoism and selfishness-idealism. By this we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.
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When the subconscious mind must chose between deeply rooted emotions and logic, emotions will almost always win.
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Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.
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The more adept we become at cultivating an altruistic attitude, the happier we will feel and the more comfortable will be the atmosphere around us. But if our emotions fluctuate wildly and we easily give in to hatred and jealousy, even our friends will avoid us. So even for people with no spiritual beliefs, it is important to have a peaceful mind.
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There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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That kind of skeptical, questioning, 'don't accept what authority tells you' attitude of science - is also nearly identical to the attitude of mind necessary for a functioning democracy. Science and democracy have very consonant values and approaches, and I don't think you can have one without the other.
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Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind.
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The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
