The mind commands the body, and it obeys forthwith; the mind commands itself, and is resisted. The mind commands the hand to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Casals says music fills him with the wonder of life and the 'incredible marvel' of being a human. Ives says it expands… — Richard Riley Copy Share Image
Magoo's appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he's not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what… — Jim Backus Copy Share Image
While I think it's very important that Marco Rubio and Senator [Ted] Cruz have contributed as senators... there's no doubt in my… — Tom Ridge Copy Share Image
We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
The Wire' was from a police perspective - in terms of the streets and that, it was probably like, thirty per cent.… — Kano Copy Share Image
Fast-moving views are not likely to be strongly held views. Instead, they're much more likely to be about people mirroring back the… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
“We breathe too fast to be able to grasp things in themselves or to expose their fragility. Our panting postulates and distorts… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
To be a scientist you have to be willing to live with uncertainty for a long time. Research scientists begin with a… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“For, as it has often happened to the traveller in the York or the Exeter coach to fall snugly asleep in his… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When a poor disconsolated drooping creature is terrified from all enjoyment,--prays without ceasing 'till his imagination is heated,--fasts and mortifies and mopes,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
Humans lived for several million years as fully wild beings: only in the last 10, 000 did we invent agriculture; only in… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
In my mind, if anyone can save the world from destroying itself, it will be the creative minds: the thinkers, the artists… — Bez Copy Share Image
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are dead, or the soon to… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
There's no doubt in my mind that I wouldn't be in the position that I am if I didn't have my 'One… — Jana Kramer Copy Share Image
Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Knowledge is inherent in man; no knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside. We say Newton discovered gravitation. Was it sitting… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Forgive yourself first. Release the need to replay a negative situation over and over again in your mind. Don’t become a hostage… — Les Brown Copy Share Image
I think something happens with age. And I find this really a lot in what I read from certain art critics: For… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
... a gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or jailbirds. They're… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
There is no short-cut to art, one has to work hard, be open and flexible in your mind, keep the child alive… — Bente Borsum Copy Share Image
Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. On the due digestion of the former depend the strength and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We live through myriads of seconds, yet it is always one, just one, that casts our entire inner world into turmoil, the… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything that’s really worthwhile in life came to us free; our minds, our… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
People want to see something authentic. If it's too polished and highly produced, people might not trust it as much. If it's… — Chad Hurley Copy Share Image
Of all the consumer products, chewing gum is perhaps the most ridiculous: it literally has no nourishment – you just chew it… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Since the uprisings in the Middle East many scholars have come out saying that freedom comes first before the Shariah. There is… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Time flies so fast after youth is past that we cannot accomplish one half the many things we have in mind or… — Theodore Gordon Copy Share Image
Ruthven surmised that he had hit upon some of the central deceptions which had wrecked him and reduced him and so many… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
Material progress and a higher standard of living bring us greater comfort and health, but do not lead to a transformation of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When you first start writing-and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers-you're scared to death that if you don't… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When I was younger, it was a lot more about the physical. As you get older, you understand that it's more about… — Joey Barton Copy Share Image
Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
I cleanse the windows of my mind, that it may become a mirror reflecting inspiration from the most High. I do this,… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
“There are two missions we are obligated to carry out during our life journey. The first, is to seek Truth throughout our… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image