Mind Quotes
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I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past.
John Lennon The Beatles
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Your private life, exposed, has a lingering effect on your mind and your game.
Tiger Woods
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Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brain, he invites onrushing deadlines to trample him flat. Broadcasting the contents of empty minds is what most of us do most of the time, and nobody more relentlessly than I.
Russell Baker
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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.
Norman Vincent Peale
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I always have on my mind the thought that next year I must do something greater, something more wonderful.
Harry Houdini
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I think it's often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but for me, poetry is the great unsettler. It questions the established order of the mind. It is radical, by which I don't mean that it is either leftwing or rightwing, but that it works at the roots of thinking.
Alice Oswald
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I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn't want to chance ruining the machine.
Richard Feynman
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
John Maynard Keynes
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Judicious mothers will always keep in mind that they are the first book read, and the last put aside, in every childs library.
Charles Lenox Remond
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Funny how a little politeness can change people's minds.
Sherman Alexie
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Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
William Feather
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I just wrote a really cool script. It's called "One Track Mind." It's an origin story about the most successful and the most foul-mouthed, outrageous songwriter in history.
Catherine Hardwicke
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I don't mind looking to the camera - it's people that throw me.
John Lennon The Beatles
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If I could reach from pole to pole or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the Man.
Isaac Watts
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My mind's sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn't like you if you were the best of women, -or stop loving you, no matter what you do.
Catullus
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His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.
Emily Dickinson
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There are three conversions necessary (for the Christian life): the conversion of the heart, the mind, and the purse.
Martin Luther
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I'm not asking you to agree with me, but at least open your mind.
Tony Blair
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After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he knew saying that he was in the hospital but never mentioning why. One day he had a better idea. To everyone he knew he wrote that he was going on a very dangerous mission. "They asked for volunteers. It's very dangerous, but someone has to do it. I'll write you the instant I get back." And he had not written anyone since.
Joseph Heller
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Every film you do, you always look at it and you think, "I could do better," but I'm never going to tell people what I could do better. I think it's up to them to make up their own mind.
Cate Shortland
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Thoughts of your mind have made you what you are and thoughts of your mind will make you what you become from this day forward.
Catherine Ponder
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I have an unshakable belief that mankind's higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same.
Helen Keller
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I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.
Morgan Freeman
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I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
Terence McKenna