Mind Quotes
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When the body doesn't want to go on, the mind continues to fight.
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Your mind simply can't focus forward and downward all at the same time.
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I don't ever want to lose that mind-set where you've got to be able to realize different ideas-slash-fantasies-slash-possibilities in your life.
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The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.
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By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.
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God is directly perceived by the mind, but not by this ordinary mind. It is the pure mind that perceives God, and at that time this ordinary mind does not function. A mind that has the slightest trace of attachment to the world cannot be called pure. When all the impurities of the mind are removed, you may call that mind Pure Mind or Pure Ātman.
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Yeah, like, when I look back on my life, I just remember back what happened in '74, or something. It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies and all the funerals. That just doesn't come to mind at all. I guess I'm really blessed that way.
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Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this - that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art. For there are greater things than the object. The greatest thing is the human mind.
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I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.
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What's in my mind is that I'm investing in people. It might be through a building or a program, but I'm investing in people. And the people that I'm investing in are underprivileged or hold a core value that I believe in.
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It's good to mind about things but not to give it too much weight, because there are some things you cannot change.
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I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
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People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.
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The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
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When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear, encouraging me to go one more hour, one more day, one more week, reminding me of the rewards I would have if I carried on a little longer. In this way, she taught me how to endure — not just the physical trials of footbinding and childbearing but the more torturous pain of the heart, mind, and soul.
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You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.
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For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.
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The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
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If a warrior is not unattached to life and death, he will be of no use whatsoever. The saying that 'All abilities come from one mind' sounds as though it has to do with sentient matters, but it is in fact a matter of being unattached to life and death. With such non-attachment one can accomplish any feat.
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Timeless comes to mind. When you listen to it, you can't tell what year the thing was made. And you don't even care.
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A curious paradox: people have only the narrowest private interest in mind when they act, yet they are at the same time more than ever determined in their behavior by the instincts of the mass. ... The diversity of individual goals is immaterial in face of the identity of the determining forces.
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If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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Sail on down the line,About half a mile or so.And I don't really wanna know ahWhere you're going.Maybe once or twice you seeTime after time I triedHold on to what we got.But now you're goingAnd I don't mind.
