Mind Quotes
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Being smart in the arts is the same as being smart in engineering is the same as being smart in writing is the same as being smart in anything, really. It's the ability to manipulate all the pieces of the puzzle in your mind, try to fit them together, and when they don't fit quite right... you sand the edges/corners and make them all fit.
Gerald Jay Sussman -
No art comes from the conscious mind.
Steve Martin
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If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it.
Cennino Cennini -
If you want to change your life, you must change your mind and change your brain? on purpose.
Bill Crawford -
Until we are renewed in the spirit of our mind and illumined in every part, our very virtues are but taught practices grafted upon a corrupt bottom
William Law -
The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.
Chris Prentiss -
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.
Charles Garfield
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My mind becomes tired, and perhaps some of yours do. If so, go and exercise your bodies.
Brigham Young -
On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn't, he said: Do you mind if I mug you here?
Paul Merton -
You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.
George W. Crane -
I don't mind, it doesn't hurt me if anyone says I'm not normal. I don't know what normal is. Sometimes I'm just really tired, or I haven't eaten, and people get the wrong idea about me.
Craig Nicholls -
The best answers come when you silence your mind.
Katrina Mayer -
Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.
Steven Pinker
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure
Virginia Woolf -
Believe you can do it. Believing something can be done puts your mind to work for you and helps you find ways to do it.
George Shinn -
I came to realize clearly that the mind is no other than the Mountain and the Rivers and the great wide Earth, the Sun and the Moon and the Sky”.
Lord Byron -
When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have the last sentence in mind. But, no book I've ever written has ever ended the way I thought it would. Characters disappear, others come forward. Once you start writing, everything changes.
Paul Auster -
The more you use your mind, the more you'll have to use.
George Amos Dorsey -
With any medium you are working in, technical skills obviously help, but your mind is what you really need to expand. That is how you create work. That's the role of the artist - to change the way you view things.
Petra Collins
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Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite.
Elena Ferrante -
I haven't been afraid to speak my mind with anything, and I have always stood up for what I believe in.
Storm Reid -
Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.
Satyajit Ray -
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
Horace