Mind Quotes
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One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.
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Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.
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The real aim of music is to co-ordinate the minds of the people into an intelligent reach for a better world and an intelligent approach to the living future.
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I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.
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There's a certain pleasure in violating the strictures of your education. The trick is, if you're going to explore ideas in a poem, to be suspicious of ideas and suspicious of your own mind at the same time. It's often a matter of orchestration and pacing. Of shaping some kind of dialectic flow.
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It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free.
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You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.
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I learned that if I put my mind to something vocally, I can pull it off. You just have to get your head-space right.
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He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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The stupidest word Jason could have imagined. Utter nonsense. Supposedly it would unmake Maldor. He repeated the odd syllables in his mind, varying the inflection. If it failed, he could always try "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious".
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We listen, we watch, we learn. We open our hearts and we open our minds, open our souls.
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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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I have come to a still, but not a deep center, A point outside the glittering current; My eyes stare at the bottom of a river, At the irregular stones, iridescent sandgrains, My mind moves in more than one place, In a country half-land, half-water. I am renewed by death, thought of my death, The dry scent of a dying garden in September, The wind fanning the ash of a low fire. What I love is near at hand, Always, in earth and air.
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The best answers come when you silence your mind.
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I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
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Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind.
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Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.
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A sound mind in a manly body.
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Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.
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Fulfilling our destiny and realizing our potential all begins in our mind. That's why the devil tries to bombard our thinking.
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Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind.
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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
