Mind Quotes
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When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.
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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
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Of all hateful occupations, housekeeping is to my mind the most hateful.
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I don't mind what they say as long as they're not being mean.
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What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind to make and remake the world.
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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.
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Thanksgiving is not just a warm, cozy holiday. It's not merely a time of recreation and relaxation and watching football all day. As we give thanks, we need to put our mind, soul and spirit into our thanks and into our praise.
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If 6 turned out to be 9, I don't mind.
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It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
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if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.
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Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it. So I don't think I could successfully pull off being on a project like that without really losing my mind.
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Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.
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Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.
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The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.
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So plastic is mind, so receptive, that the slightest thought makes an impression upon it. People who think many kinds of thought must expect to receive a confused manifestation in their lives. If a gardener plants a thousand kinds of seeds, he will get a thousand kinds of plants: it is the same in mind.
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The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind. Bailey was the son she liver with, her only boy.
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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.
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Nature's first great title - mind.
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Every time you think a thought it 'registers', and comes back to you according to the vibrations and wave lengths sent out from your mind.
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Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.
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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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Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates the spirit.
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Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
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Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.
