Mind Quotes
-
I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are much more powerful and flexible ways to organize your mind.
-
1980's: not a time period but a state of mind.
-
Most illness begins with a negative mind.
-
Every day practice emptying your mind of all unhealthy attitudes.
-
Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
-
The world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity, to be eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject at any time to destruction. To inquire what is beyond it is no concern of man; nor can the human mind form any conjecture concerning it.
-
There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.
-
Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.
-
if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.
-
A vigorous mind shut out from outer stimuli finds in this circumstance the time to develop leisurely, finds a freedom from distraction that leads to clear views of life and a proper expression.
-
But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that vanish, that are taken away. We fix them in our minds forever by yearning, by pain, by crying out. Pain, the pain that seems unbearable at the time, is memory's first imprinting step, the cornerstone of the temple we erect inside us in memory of the dead. Pain is part of memory, and memory is a God-given gift.
-
We have only the Champions League in mind and we are focusing exclusively on Barcelona.
-
Indeed, a Christian ought to be disposed and prepared to keep in mind that he has to reckon with God every moment of his life.
-
A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.
-
If you sit there and dwell on the fact that you did something... you will lose your mind.
-
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
-
How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.
-
People don't want drama 365 days a year. I'm a sense of relief; it's my job to take your mind off what's bad for that brief second you're in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I'm doing.
-
There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour - if I believed in progress, I suppose that's what I'd call it.
-
I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.
-
Wars and conflicts begin in the mind, then they are expressed in words and then executed through physical action, so personal transformation is intricately connected with the social and political transformation.
-
The number one metaphor I have in my mind for writing a screenplay is that...you're trying to climb a mountain blindfolded. And the funny thing about that is, you think, 'Okay, that's hard because you're climbing up a rock face, and you don't know where you're going, and you don't know where the top is, you can't see what's below you...' But actually the hardest part about climbing a mountain blindfolded is just finding the mountain.
-
The poet I saw once... but whose words have long been in my mind, windows of invincible candles..
-
Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind.
