A chief cause of unhappiness is what I call mental movies. Mental movies are a misuse of the imagination. You know how… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Success depends on the extent of one's general culture. one's set of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
We’ve all seen the same situation happen to two people. One looks for the lesson, sets their shoulders back and presses on… — Gail Kelly Copy Share Image
History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful.… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
Women will not be free until we can speak our minds and our hearts without having to worry that men will crucify… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Most of us fill up our lives and end our boredom with our involvement with other people - people we love, people… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
That’s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking,… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts , and power addicts, and the pure addicts… — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
There's nothing easy or simple or even entertaining (in our contemporary American sense of that word) in disciplining our minds to "see"… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To use Newton's words, our efforts up till this moment have but turned over a pebble or shell here and there on… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
I tell personal stories associated with aspects of the theory, and I hope they are interesting and compelling. I don't feel you're… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
None but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What is necessary for 'the very existence of science,' and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful… — William James Copy Share Image
Four hundred year old trees, who draw aliveness from the earth like smoke from the heart of God, we come, not knowing… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic than you can possibly imagine. A human mind can only contain a tiny fraction… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to… — Amilcar Cabral Copy Share Image
I just had a son and had to take him to the paediatrician and he measured his head and apparently he's in… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
“The act was an exorcism of relief for Florentino Ariza, for when he put the violin back into its case and walked… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Each of us seeks peace of mind, but we sometimes fear that it means giving up excitement and ecstasy. Peace sounds like… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
Man has subdued the world, but woman has subdued man. Mind and muscle have won his victories; love and loveliness have gained… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Worry is a state of mind based upon fear. It works slowly, but persistently. It is insidious and subtle. Step by step… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“As to what that exile and that longing for reunion meant, Rieux had no idea. But as he walked ahead, jostled on… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What made Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein such creative geniuses? It wasn't reading books or watching YouTube talks about… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
I haven't really thought about family in my work. I simply play with people I meet. They mostly become friends. There is… — Gaspar Claus Copy Share Image
The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come to us, the more good things we will… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
My mind is a center of Divine operation. The Divine operation is always for expansion and fuller expression, and this means the… — Thomas Troward Copy Share Image
For me, working in the fashion industry is about getting to meet the minds behind the brands. Sure, there are nice dinners,… — Ben Clymer Copy Share Image
I sometimes still go out hunting for bad weather, flying low in simple airplanes to explore the inner reaches of the clouds.… — William Langewiesche Copy Share Image
This time Clary concentrated, trying to focus her mind on Simon-The Simon-ness of him, the shape of the way he thought, the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I go to conventions all the time. I'm not one of those actors who's public-shy, meaning I don't mind when someone comes… — Aron Eisenberg Copy Share Image
The more we study mind and matter scientifically the more we see that all things follow a natural sequence, a sequence as… — Llewelyn Powys Copy Share Image
