My Mind Quotes

• It is on my mind every hour of every day that I have 168 hours this week to improve my life. It is really up to me to be a good steward of this time to accomplish my goals and change my life this week.

  

  Bob Cox
  • Goals
  • Improve
  • Change My Life

• To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Human being
  • My Mind

• The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it...

  

  Marcel Proust
  • My Mind
  • Tasted
  • Madeleine

• I've made my mind up that I will only do a film that I really, really love. I'm determined to lie low until a role comes along that really makes me want to work.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Film
  • Role
  • My Mind

• I think anything thats creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that Im going through in my life. If youre going through heartbreak, and you can write a song, its a wonderful win-win, because it takes your mind off the heartbreak, and you get to vent.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Win
  • My Life
  • Creative

• Well, you put a little piece of yourself into every character that you do. Even if you're playing some psychotic person, which of course I'm not, some part of you is in that character and it's hopefully believable. I always come back to the fact that my own instinct is better than something I build in my mind.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Character
  • Playing
  • Believable

• With lyrics for me, it's usually musically-based. It's not really poetry- or writer-based. It's rock-based. It doesn't mean that I'm aping rock lyrics, but I'm writing from a music standpoint. I'm thinking more of music heroes, if they're in my mind. Not William Blake or John Ashbury. Sometimes maybe I thought of him a little bit. Or Wallace Stevens. I don't even really fully understand either of them.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Rock
  • Poetry
  • Heroes

• I try and picture you reading this -- there is a sense that as I write I try and get nearer to you, connect in my mind with you.

  

  Elise Valmorbida
  • Reading
  • Write
  • Connect

• I try to be aware of the life that surrounds me as much as my mind permits me. It's the only time I have new blissful moments, and I love bliss.

  

  Alicia Sixtos
  • I Love
  • Bliss
  • Surrounds

• So I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty-five days a year. Watanabe: Wow, and did your search pay off? M: That's the hard part. I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Search
  • Perfection
  • Hard Part

• The inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is something that weighs heavily on my mind.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Safety
  • Laws
  • My Mind

• Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad.

  

  Claude Monet
  • People
  • Bad
  • My Mind

• Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Songs
  • My Mind
  • Continuity

• This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Life
  • Reading
  • Comfort

• Now therefore, that my mind is free from all cares, and that I have obtained for myself assured leisure in peaceful solitude, I shall apply myself seriously and freely to the general destruction of all my former opinions.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Solitude
  • Opinions
  • Destruction

• The master said, 'Quietly to store up knowledge in my mind, to learn without flagging, to teach without growing weary, these present me with no difficulties.'

  

  Confucius
  • Knowledge
  • Master
  • My Mind

• And I try to remember if this happened before, because this is a memory I would want to keep. But there is no echo of it in my mind.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Remember
  • Memory
  • Echo

• "I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind."

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • I Believe
  • My Mind
  • Whispers

• At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand.

  

  Confucius
  • Study
  • My Mind
  • Directed

• What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Body
  • Working
  • My Mind

• I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Night
  • Works
  • My Mind

• I felt a Cleaving in my Mind- As if my Brain had split- I tried to match it- Seam by Seam- But could not make it fit.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Brain
  • My Mind
  • Seam

• I always thought it would be really, really cool to play Edgar Allan Poe, because when I was a kid, he was one of the authors who really blew my mind open to all sorts of weird dark and twisted places.

  

  Ezra Miller
  • Dark
  • My Mind
  • Authors

• I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Confidence
  • Ruin
  • My Mind

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