Mind Quotes · Page 281

Red lights, green lights, stop and go jive. Headlines, deadlines, jamming your mind.

— Billy Squier

I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen.

— Neil Simon

The muscle and the mind must become one. One without the other is zero

— Lee Haney

Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.

— Edmund Waller

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

— Horace

I cannot afford to have one thought in my mind that is not in His

— Bill Johnson

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.

— Sally Pearson

Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into…

— Edward Hirsch

“It was not an inordinately large ass, yet the heft of it seemed to connect him to an immense source of gravitation,…

— Michael Chabon

I love strong flavors too. Like I don't mind if it looks clean and clear and you know what you are eating…

— Wolfgang Puck

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford... The New Deal, in my mind, has become…

— Richard Lamm

Oh, nobody would ever want to know me in Hollywood. I'm far too puffin-faced for that, too weird-looking. No, I think I'll…

— Tamsin Greig

I am protective of my own personal life, but I must confess that I enjoy watching people that don't mind telling it…

— Tyra Banks

To see truth as truth, we don't need a lot of study. It's not complicated. What we need is pure observation. An…

— Ilchi Lee

Any divine communication from God to man is called revelation. Revelation comes in many different forms. All true revelation comes by the…

— Brent L. Top

The mind may tell you one thing but the heart can tell you a different story. Why is that? Because the heart…

— Serenity Karma

Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and…

— June Jordan

The mythos-over-logos argument points to the fact that each child is born as ignorant as any caveman. What keeps the world from…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Peter Hyland's poems are both elegantly wrought and meditatively wild. They testify to an original, restless intelligence. He can cast his imagination…

— Tony Hoagland

“The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or…

— Henry David Thoreau

You may be saying: 'I have failed in life and shall always be a failure.' That is because you are ever looking…

— Prentice Mulford

“He presses two fingers against each eye and attempts to account for this crippling melancholy, but is having trouble with rational thought.…

— David Nicholls

I'm pretty good at fleshing out characters. I like to crawl inside their minds and imaginations and sort of loll about. Sticking…

— Gina Ochsner

You always seem to come to mind. Most often, at the times when I don't want you too.

— Anonymous

If you lose an argument it doesn't mean you change your mind but you have to accept the decision.

— Claire Fox

Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.

— Lucretius

Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds

— Elspeth Huxley

“A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.”

— Plutarch

Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds.

— Deborah Tannen

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.

— Ovid

The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.

— Terence McKenna

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

— Paul Theroux

Whatever people see - TV in my mind forms people's opinions.

— Bob Dylan

The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.

— Fulton J. Sheen

EXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains,

— Rebecca Solnit

Drop the whole subject and put it out of your mind and let your subconscious do its thing.

— James Webb Young

Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?

— Judy Blume