Mind Quotes
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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.
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In the world of tomorrow, the new man will 'think' the place he wants to go, then his mind will take him there.
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Chance favors the connected mind.
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I don't mind the term 'feminist.'
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I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.
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We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.
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I am happy doing standup so I don't ever want to stop doing it. But I wouldn't mind venturing off and doing other things that are creative.
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Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest. Love of country must spring from willing hearts and free minds.
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Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more thoroughly his than it could else be. The preliminary activity of mind which his success implies, the concentration of thought necessary to it, and the excitement consequent on his triumph, conspire to register the facts in his memory in a way that no mere information heard from a teacher, or read in a schoolbook, can be registered.
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If we want to be comforted, we must make up our minds to believe every single solitary word of comfort God has ever spoken.
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A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.
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The impossible is not quite impossible if you put your mind to it.
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Men, knowing not how to handle the tool of the mind, have become used to leaning on others and on habit; and, owing to that, this splendid tool, the human mind, has in fact become unreliable through neglect.
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Dreams are practical reflections of feelings and concerns that were present in your mind at the time you had the dream. You are smart and practical. So are your dreams.
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We feed upon each other's mouths and minds like ants with social stomachs.
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The more you think of harmony, of health, of success, of happiness, of things that are desirable, of things that are beautiful, of things that have true worth, the more the mind will tend to build all those things in yourself, provided, of course, that all such thinking is subjective.
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I tend to have a very analytical mind, I'm constantly thinking about how things can be better or different.
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We can all be free Maybe not with words Maybe not with a look But with your mind
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He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.
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Pain is nothing. Pain is in the mind. If you can walk you can run.
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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.
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What is this world condition? Body is the world condition. And with body and form goes feeling, perception, consciousness, and all the activities throughout the world. The arising of form and the ceasing of form-everything that has been heard, sensed, and known, sought after and reached by the mind-all this is the embodied world, to be penetrated and realized.
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Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
