Mind Quotes · Page 307

To be successful in reality, you must first be successful in your mind.

— Renee Veldman

What the conscious mind can't recognize, the heart might know

— Marilyn Monroe

'While there is life, there's hope,' he cried; 'Then why such haste?' so groaned and died

— John Gay

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

— Taiye Selasi

I've come up with my own cure for a closed mind: try it once, and see.

— Georges St-Pierre

“He . . . felt as if, wanting to be needed by everyone, he were merely becoming some sort of semi-invisible messenger.”

— Iris Murdoch

Even if you disagree w/me-I HAVE TO STAND,like you FOR WHAT I BELIEVE IN.WITH ALL MY HEART AND MIND

— Ian Somerhalder

There are three conversions necessary (for the Christian life): the conversion of the heart, the mind, and the purse.

— Martin Luther

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely…

— Sara Teasdale

“He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet,serious, and retiring manners, and…

— Jane Austen

When our Founding Fathers wrote the historic words 'all men are created equal,' they probably didn't have people like me in mind.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

Today, let's set our minds and hearts on feeling more thankful for what we are than guilty for what we're not. Let's…

— Lysa TerKeurst

More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain -…

— Antonio Damasio

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I'm not much interested in travelling scholarships for women - or in fact in scholarships, tout court! - they'd much better stay…

— Edith Wharton

By honest I don't mean that you only tell what's true. But you make clear the entire situation. You make clear all…

— Richard P. Feynman

I recommend learning how to come into the presence of stillness and vastness. Learn any form of meditation. Spend twenty minutes every…

— Elizabeth Lesser

Nothing wrong with changing your mind. That's a very unwaffling thing to say: "Nothing wrong..." Who am I to say that there's…

— Jonathan Ames

But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret…

— Galileo Galilei

“An odd thing about perception is that when we identify some new thing with one or more of our five senses, it…

— Nigel Hey

Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is…

— Victor Hugo

There is no physical punishment in chess; suffering goes on inside the mind. You defend a bad position for hours, you suffer.…

— Lubomir Kavalek

How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Write on your doors the saying wise and old, "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!"…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I'm not a shock jock. I never ambush anybody. I just speak my mind and my heart and my soul.

— Skip Bayless

Afterlife, in my mind, is pretty much nothing. This is it. This is what we get, for me.

— Autre Ne Veut

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

— Gautama Buddha

I would leave school and be bummed out for 15 minutes, and then I would take my mind of things by making music.

— Charlie Puth

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama

— Edward Bond

Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.

— Taylor Caldwell

I love that when you're writing your mind is sort of figuring things out on its own, without you directing it.

— Lynne Rae Perkins

Our days are happier when we give people a bit of our heart rather than a piece of our mind..

— Anonymous

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

— Dana Brunetti

“He was out to get back everything he'd lost; there was no end to his loss; this thing would drag on forever.”

— Jack Kerouac

By living in harmony with Nature one gains a healthy mind and body.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

The mind is afraid of its own dissolution. Life always seeks life.

— Frederick Lenz

“My mind is like the Titanic, to many brain cells for the life boats.”

— Steve Merrick

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

— William Shakespeare

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

— Plato

[Margaret] Thatcher could fake her class background, but she couldn't fake the quality of her mind.

— Hilary Mantel