Mind Quotes · Page 498

“I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things.”

— Thoreau

“The time we are living in is a crucial time in the mind of God”

— Sunday Adelaja

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

— Aneurin Bevan

I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.

— J. G. Ballard

“Abiding in the space of the nature of mind, we not only are free, we are freedom.”

— Tenzin Wangyal

Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.

— Sybil Adelman

Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure.

— Marshall McLuhan

Never mind what my name is,” the man said. “No one can pronounce it anyway. Just call me Sir.

— Anonymous

Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies.

— Samuel Prout

“It was not fear of ridicule, to which everyday life as a winged red person had accommodated Geryon early in life, but…

— Anne Carson

Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and…

— James J. Gibson

“He was just one of those people ... one of a thousand expats who'd dragged their unhappiness to the other side of…

— Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Something impacts me emotionally, art is a kind of outlet, and I figure it's the same for a lot of artists. The…

— Ryan Coogler

Country music has its way of getting into the minds and hearts of people. I will say - you never know how…

— Brantley Gilbert

“He took off his hat and shook it (having hurried home as though his own coronation were waiting), and moved now with…

— William Gaddis

Some people have iconic directors in their mind, or they want to make particular styles of films they have seen before. I…

— Takashi Miike

One of the things I tried to do is to kind of talk my actors through the scene, but at the same…

— James Wan

It's refreshing, honestly, to be able to have more intellectual conversations about sex and the meaning of sex, and intimacy and what…

— Lizzy Caplan

Alistair Crowley used to define magic as anything in which you can exercise your will in the world through the use of…

— Jason Silva

Apart from thoughts, there is no independent entity called the world. In deep sleep there are no thoughts, and there is no…

— Ramana Maharshi

I often use music as a handle for very emotionally explosive substances: love, sex, God, fear, doubt, politics, the economics of the…

— Jon Foreman

You're trying to figure out a way to meet a horse to where he can understand. And to me, it's not to…

— Buck Brannaman

When you come into a creativity-driven environment, things are very different and there is the danger that a traditional managerial mind-set could…

— John Kao

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these…

— James Truslow Adams

Keep your brain in your head put your mind where your hands be

— Yung Ocean

I'd love to play a femme fatale. And I wouldn't mind working with George Clooney.

— Laurie Holden

In the long-term, security comes from an asset you create or acquire, not a position in someone else's asset.

— Chris Guillebeau

“More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.”

— Roy T. Bennett

The longest journey in life, is from your head to your heart.

— Anonymous

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public

— Adlai E Stevenson

I change my mind quite a lot about things, which isn't always a good thing.

— Little Simz

I've been very blessed to accomplish everything I've wanted to. Anything I've put my mind to, I've done it.

— Johny Hendricks

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

— Lois Lowry

My mind still wants to do everything; my body can't anymore. My mind would want to continue until I was 100.

— Karen Carney

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.

— George Mason

There is not a doubt in my mind that the people of America are hunkered down. They are afraid.

— Ann Richards

Perfection is what we create in our own mind. I prefer the flaw.

— Noelle Scaggs

Kindness boggles my mind. It's the only force in nature that increases simultaneously for the giver and the receiver.

— Daniel Lubetzky

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

— Felix Frankfurter

Meditation practice is relevant because in meditation our conceptual mind relaxes and we can feel who we are at heart.

— Sakyong Mipham