Mind Quotes
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A mind grows by what it feeds on.
J. G. Holland
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My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them.
Paul Auster
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You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.
Scott Westerfeld
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Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's work, whatever its blessings, however better it is than ours, but from our own poor scratched-over pages. For these we can hold up to life. That is, we are born with a mind and heart to hold each page up to, and to ask: is it valid?
Eudora Welty
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Think joy, talk joy, practice joy, share joy, saturate your mind with joy, and you will have the time of your life today and every day all your life.
Norman Vincent Peale
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I grew up in a way where I didn't realize there were limitations.I always thought I could speak my mind.
Sandra Bullock
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The haters out there, I don't really pay attention to them, because I feel like I'm doing the best I can, and I just don't want that negativity into my heart and into my mind.
Ainsley Earhardt
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The immediate reviews were very hostile, but they didn't bother me-I had the attitude that I was right. The poor guys who were critics just didn't understand the works at all. I was sorry about that, but it didn't weigh on my mind a bit.
William Eggleston
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Love sees with the heart and not with mind.
William Shakespeare
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No cowboys for Canada. Canada got Mounties instead - Dudley Do-Right, not John Wayne. It's a mind-set of "Here I come to save the day" versus "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.
Sarah Vowell
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Sink or swim! You never really feel ready, there is always sometime more that your mind tells you you should be doing. However, the trick is to be able to show up and perform no matter what the circumstance.
Natalie Cook
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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
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The momentum now is inevitable. Now it's about each of us individually arranging the furniture of our own mind to deal with what has become inevitable.
Terence McKenna
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Energy is a state of mind. Tell yourself you're tired and you will be. Tell yourself you feel great and you will
Chalene Johnson
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I wouldn't mind being a lord.
Peter O'Toole
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Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.
Satyajit Ray
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You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Too many words are the locusts of the mind, which darken the air of the understanding and eat up our meaning.
George Holyoake
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I do love comedy, but I'm not brave enough to tackle a script whose goal is to make you laugh. That's tough. The ones that can do it, I tip my hat off to them, but I don't have that kind of humor or mind.
William H. Macy
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Mind training matters. It is not just a luxury, or a supplementary vitamin for the soul. It determines the quality of every instant of our lives.
Norman Doidge
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I wouldn't mind spending a little more time and effort and money on good skin care. And I'm sure they'll come out with, as they are doing, with more and more treatments that are noninvasive and healthy ways to keep your face looking as good as it can.
Catherine O'Hara
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Loneliness is not so much where you are, but instead is your state of mind.
Nick Bilton
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
Seneca the Younger
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
Joseph Joubert