Mind Quotes
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Can the brain understand the brain? Can it understand the mind? Is it a giant computer, or some other kind of giant machine, or something more?
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It's all so personal, isn't it? It's hard to talk about work without talking about things that are personal. Work is personal. I don't want to talk about my personal life, but it's on my mind, and it's in my work.
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After the first shock of recognition - a sudden sense of "this is what I'm going to write" - the novel starts to breed by itself; the process goes on solely in the mind, not on paper. I feel a kind of gentle development, an uncurling inside, and I know that the details are there already, that in fact I would see them plainly if I looked closer, but I prefer to wait until what is loosely called inspiration has completed the task for me.
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If they want to criticize me, I don't care; I don't mind. But they must criticize me fairly. Usually, the criticism is not fair. Or the praise, even the praise sometimes is not fair.
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Practice the healing power of the compassionate mind.
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A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!
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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
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Medical School is the next step in my career. There is no doubt about that. My mind is still hungry and I want to continue my education.
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Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.
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The mind is still there even when thoughts are not.
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As a Believer, keep the Word at the forefront of your mind at all times.
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Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
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One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.
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One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.
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I rarely talk about work with writers, and I love getting together with writers. I think writers are great to get together with, because we can talk about everything. I think that's why I enjoy it. Writers tend to be pretty open-minded, and pretty profane and loose. They have fun minds.
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Age carries all things away, even the mind.
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I have never seen a more lucid, more lonely, better balanced mad mind than mine.
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The dog has an enviable mind; it remembers the nice things in life and quickly blots out the nasty.
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When I was just starting out, I met Cartier-Bresson. He wasn't young in age but, in his mind, he was the youngest person I'd ever met. He told me it was necessary to trust my instincts, be inside my work, and set aside my ego. In the end, my photography turned out very different to his, but I believe we were coming from the same place.
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A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself.
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Zealous conviction is a dangerous substitute for an open mind.
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The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.
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The Gospel that represents Jesus Christ, not as a system of truth to be received into the mind like I should receive a system of philosophy, or astronomy, but it represents Him as a beal, living, mighty Saviour, able to save me now.
