Mind Quotes
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Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page.
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Perfection is what we create in our own mind. I prefer the flaw.
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To be able to create you have to have peace of mind on some level.
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Evolution is a laughing matter for anybody that's got a rational mind.
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The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
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Yet we are constantly annoyed, and the legislatures are kept constantly busy, by the people who have made up their minds that it is wise and conducive to happiness to live in a certain way, and who want to compel everybody else to live in their way.
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Don't you know how much I hero-worshiped you when I was a kid? You were Marie Curie crossed with Emily Bronte crossed with Joan of Arc to me when I was ten. And when i told you that, you said my cultural references were the sign of a colonized mind.
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The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.
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There is no greater weapon than a prepared mind.
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Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience again. A polyp would be a conceptual thinker if a feeling of 'Hello! thingumbob again!' ever flitted through its mind.
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I always want to listen with an open mind.
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Think of your mind, your emotions, and your spirit as the ultimate garden. The way to ensure a bountiful, nourishing harvest is to plant seeds like love, warmth, and appreciation, instead of seeds like disappointment, anger, and fear.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind.
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There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and happiness.
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Publication - is the auction of the mind.
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I think if the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set.
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My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to be blown to the end of the earth, to some land I had never seen or heard of, where my mind and body would separate forever. “Hold tight,” I would tell myself, but there was nothing for me to hold on to.
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We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.
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To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.
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I wrote 'Flatliner' with Dierks Bentley in mind in 2013.
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Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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It is unjust to call imaginary the diseases which are, on the contrary, only too real, since they proceed from our mind, the only regulator of our equilibrium and our health.
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Reality has been so politicized such that people truly believe, mostly, that there are two versions of reality: a conservative and a liberal version. In my mind, there's only one version of reality and then those who lie about it. Much as in a court of law.
