Mind Quotes
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A mind is like a puzzle; you must unlock it to read its hidden secrets.
Melissa de la Cruz
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How did his brain come to derive comfort from fishing rather than from compulsive sexual behavior? At this point we simply don’t know. Neurofeedback changes brain connectivity patterns; the mind follows by creating new patterns of engagement.
Bessel van der Kolk
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It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective dangers someone takes. You don't have to fight snakes or wake up in a strange apartment to have a story; it's about what goes on inside your mind and soul.
Etgar Keret
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You can pray while you work. Work doesn't stop prayer and prayer doesn't stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to him: I love you God, I trust you, I believe in you, I need you now. Small things like that. They are wonderful prayers.
Mother Teresa
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On March 8 a poll showed Hart 9 points ahead of Reagan. So perhaps 60 million Americans, 55 million of whom had not heard of Hart a month ago, have suddenly decided thay want him to be leader of the free world. The public mind is not just soft wax, it's runny.
George Will
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Education is a priority over any sport because without a mind you can't contribute to society.
Tiger Woods
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All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder. For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd. I could tell you things about Peter Pan and the Wizard of OZ, there's a dirty old man!
Tom Lehrer
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You said that the mind is like the wind but perhaps it is we who are like the wind Knowing nothing, simply blowing through. Never aging, never dying.
Haruki Murakami
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Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.
Northrop Frye
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The mind is the cutting edge of the evolving event system.
Terence McKenna
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Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?
Thomas Hardy
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You’re in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way.
Carol S. Dweck
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Whatever you truly conceive of in the mind, is possible.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'.
Ray Bradbury
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In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the perfect mind to me.
Hilary Mantel
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.
Miguel de Cervantes
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I think of my body as a side effect of my mind. Like a thought I had once that manifested itself-- Oops! Oh no! Manifested. Look at this. Now we have to buy clothes and everything.
Carrie Fisher
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Mind conjures miracles out of time.
Terence McKenna
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Mind exists as a Principle in the universe, just as electricity exists as a principle.
Ernest Holmes
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
Seneca the Younger
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure
Virginia Woolf
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I like to connect with people through my work. That's my favorite way - meetings of the minds, fans at a show. Those are nice mediated ways of hanging out.
Carrie Brownstein
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Keep in mind: true revolution is only seven people, right?
Wyclef Jean Fugees
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I believe that my creative mind is my greatest weapon.
Tiger Woods