Mind Quotes
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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.
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My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the mouth speaking the line, the body delivering the gesture, while the mind looks back, observing, analyzing, judging, worrying, and then deciding when and what to say next. Enjoyment while performing was rare - enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that comedy cannot afford.
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Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.
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The only man who can't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one.
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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”.
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It takes a certain kind of mind to narrate, to work through character motivation, to be unforgiving to one's writer-self when it comes down to creating the minutiae of detail. Writing fiction requires stamina, a sense of how people's lives work, how people work toward and against one another and, above all, precision.
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The having of the ideas is quite otherworldly. And then the making of the art itself is quite scientific. It's a combination. L Doing figurative work or taking pictures, and looking at how light actually reflects and refracts on bodies, or how your perception of something changes based on distance. But I think the getting of the ideas, and having that space to just have the ideas, is otherworldly, and requires a clear mind.
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The mind, of course, is just what the brain does for a living.
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In football, the only game I know is the 90-minutes game. It's not mind games; I don't try to do that.
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A confused mind is one that is open to the possibility of change.
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It's about staying ahead of what happened yesterday. When you just in your mind think...nothing's going to stop me. I don't care how I felt yesterday. I'm gonna go out today and do what I know I can do. If you can just tell yourself...no I'm stronger than this, no I'm better than this, no I'm faster than this, no I'm tougher than this. I think you can make it through situations that your never thought possible.
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I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
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It's gratifying to know that you've appeared in someone else's dreams. It's proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and value outside the walls of your own mind.
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You have to try your best to have peace of mind, and whatever happens you know you did your best.
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Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time that allows us to link the mind with the world.
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You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.
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As Aristotle said, happiness is not a condition that is produced or stands on its own; rather, it is a frame of mind that accompanies an activity. But another frame of mind comes first. It is a steely determination to do well.
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Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
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It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.
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Closing your mind to religion is no different than the close-mindedness that religions can cause.
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Focusing on the good isn’t just about overcoming our inner grump to see the glass half full. It’s about opening our minds to the ideas and opportunities that will help us be more productive, effective, and successful at work and in life.
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I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.
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The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.
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Basically that was the moment when I thought I'd like to do this forever. I never changed my mind.
