Mind Quotes
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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 was like, "If I don't change my mind, if I don't change my heart, if I don't develop some skill, I'm always going to be sleeping in my car."
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Shoji Hamada's drawings were little one-line notations of something he wanted to remember about a pot or a piece of furniture or a landscape or something like that, and they were just done very quickly and they had, he thought, no artistic quality. They're not great drawings, but they served to remind him of something he had in his mind, so that when he then went to the studio, that would stick in his mind and he could explore the making of the pot with the clay on the wheel.
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I think the country's in trouble. And I think I have a pretty clear sense of the values and principles that have made this country great. I've had a chance to govern and lead with those in mind, with some significant success in Minnesota. And I think the country needs that kind of leadership and insight and perspective.
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What do you hang on the walls of your mind?
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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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Pain is nothing. Pain is in the mind. If you can walk you can run.
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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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It is not that sport, over-indulged in, coarsens the mind; it is that it dulls it.
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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.
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He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
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Dress loose,take a great deal of exercise ,and be particular about your diet and sleep sound enough,the body has a great effect on the mind.
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I have never seen a more lucid, more lonely, better balanced mad mind than mine.
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The best answers come when you silence your mind.
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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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I don't mind looking to the camera - it's people that throw me.
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A confused mind is one that is open to the possibility of change.
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I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.
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Sometimes I'll have an end in mind, but it's always false, always corny, just a dumb idea anyone could have, sitting on a barstool. An abstract thesis with no real life inside it. And then I start writing and the writing itself confounds me, taking away the comfort of knowing the end in advance. How is that even possible? Doesn't the conclusion come at the end? How can you begin with one - that seems odd, right?
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If you were to gather all the glory, enjoyment, pleasure and happiness of the world and put it all together, it would not approach one tiny fraction of the bliss that you experience upon realizing the nature of mind.
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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.
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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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The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business, and often to get into trouble.
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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.
