Mind Quotes · Page 697

You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a positive income…

— Miley Cyrus

The intoxication of the faro drinker only shows itself at first by an increase in noise which is only deafening, and finally…

— Gerard De Nerval

It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that…

— Wendell Berry

My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are…

— Franz Liszt

Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind…

— Alain de Botton

I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about this difficult…

— Rick Moody

I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot of contamination must…

— Charlotte Bronte

I've been in the frame of mind in Charlotte that, O.K., I'm going to play defense. But I've never been in a…

— Larry Johnson

I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture…

— Terence McKenna

Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The Frankenstein of Communism is the product of the Jewish mind, and was turned loose upon the world by the son of…

— Kenneth Goff

Little kids' minds are very, very strong. They bend. There's a lot of tensile strength and they don't break. We start our…

— Stephen King

I don't watch teams other than Dodgers on TV and I watch the Dodgers games sparingly. I like to refresh my mind…

— Vin Scully

“He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh,…

— Haruki Murakami

“Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain…

— John Lubbock

Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you. In your central nervous system and in your conscious…

— Nirmala Srivastava

We can't escape from the world anymore; we can't escape from the mind. We need to enter surrender while we are in…

— Eckhart Tolle

“For many minutes, for many hours, for a bleak eternity, he lay awake, shivering, reduced to primitive terror, comprehending that he had…

— Sinclair Lewis

A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in…

— Antonio Damasio

I spent nearly two hours deciding on an outfit that would look as if the subject of clothing had never crossed my…

— Rosanne Cash

I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming…

— Nicholas G. Carr

We should not go to the [poor countries] and say: 'We come to ... teach you our science, to show you your…

— Che Guevara

I was going to tweet every three seconds about every thought that went through my mind, and I did that for a…

— Phil Elvrum

The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved…

— Eckhart Tolle

Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.

— George Lois

He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.

— Alan Cumming

Say someone tells me their name - that name can turn into a taste or a color and that's how I categorize…

— Ali Banisadr

Growing up in Ohio and just being kind of an average guy from flyover country - my dad was a factory guy…

— Roger Ailes

“But he was no longer in Tollygunge. He had stepped out of it as he had stepped so many mornings out of…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“I formed the impression that nature had given him little patience for fools, while society had cruelly decreed that he spend a…

— Andrew Killeen

“It wasn't who a person believed himself to be or what he pretended he would do in a given situation. It was…

— Robert Kurson

I never feel like I'm looking to get away from my own self. Not as much as I'm trying to get inside…

— Chris Wood

If you are around a lot of human beings who are filled with jealousy and anger and rage and desire, it filters…

— Frederick Lenz

On numerous different occasions I have had people tell me that I am only booked because of my dad, because of who…

— Tessa Blanchard

I sit and I write automatically. I don't really try to write. My subconscious mind takes over and writes the songs for…

— Brian Wilson

I am happy doing standup so I don't ever want to stop doing it. But I wouldn't mind venturing off and doing…

— Brian Regan

It will be a gay world. There will be lights everywhere except in the minds of men, and the fall of the…

— Herbert Read

It's hard to think too hard about anything Donald Trump says because, you know, he will change his mind in the next…

— Jill Stein

Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that…

— Gustave Flaubert