Mind Quotes
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Doomed Lord's Passing. For the mind of man alone is free to explore the lofty vastness of the cosmic infinite, to transcend ordinary consciousness, to roam the secret corridors of the brain where past and future melt into one...And universe and individual are linked, the one mirrored in the other, and each contains the other.
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A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together.
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Never pass up new experiences Scarlett, They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler
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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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The difference between an echo chamber and a filter bubble in my mind is an echo chamber you choose to in with likeminded people, a filter bubble chooses you and you don't really see it.
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To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.
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Outta sight, outta mind is what you'll always be.
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Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind.
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Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
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I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.
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The human mind is a powerful thing in many ways, but in others it's endlessly fragile—it takes only a single moment of pure terror to tear a hole in it, like a finger through a cobweb, leaving you forever just a shadow, a half-person.
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And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys than to be among the most sought after women at a ball.
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You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.
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It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.
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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?
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The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.
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It becomes necessary to realize that the body is not conscious, but we are conscious of the body, also that the mind is not conscious but we are conscious of the mind.
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My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad-I've never changed my mind about that.
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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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Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.
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Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it.
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It is not that sport, over-indulged in, coarsens the mind; it is that it dulls it.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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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”.
