Mind Quotes by John Steinbeck

Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.

— John Steinbeck

“He stopped, feeling lonely in his long speech.”

— John Steinbeck

“Why did his mind pick its way as delicately as a cat through cactus?”

— John Steinbeck

Texas is not a state - it's a state of mind.

— John Steinbeck

“Who in his mind has not probe the dark water?”

— John Steinbeck

Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.

— John Steinbeck

“It is possible that his virtue lived on a lack of energy.”

— John Steinbeck

“His mind had no horizon—and his sympathy had no warp.”

— John Steinbeck

I don’t mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don’t want to get nibbled to death. There’s a difference.

— John Steinbeck

I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique…

— John Steinbeck

The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.

— John Steinbeck

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

— John Steinbeck

Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she…

— John Steinbeck

She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything…

— John Steinbeck

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

— John Steinbeck

The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.

— John Steinbeck

“He raged at his farm, forced it, added to it, drilled and trimmed, and his boundaries extended. He took no rest, no…

— John Steinbeck

“They reminded him of something—what was it?—some memory, some picture. He strove to find it and then it came of itself. It…

— John Steinbeck

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are…

— John Steinbeck

“It set him free,” said Lee. “It gave him the right to be a man, separate from every other man.” “That’s lonely.”…

— John Steinbeck

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not…

— John Steinbeck

I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing…

— John Steinbeck

Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home.…

— John Steinbeck

“The one-eyed man watched them go, and then he went through the iron shed to his shack behind. It was dark inside.…

— John Steinbeck

I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities…

— John Steinbeck

After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he…

— John Steinbeck

He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and…

— John Steinbeck

Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or…

— John Steinbeck

And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And…

— John Steinbeck

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of the writer. This is…

— John Steinbeck

The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been…

— John Steinbeck

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers]…

— John Steinbeck

“And everywhere people asked him why he was walking through the country. Because he loved true things, he tried to explain. He…

— John Steinbeck

“Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes…

— John Steinbeck

“He did not often think of people as individuals, but rather as antidotes for the poison of his loneliness, as escapes from…

— John Steinbeck

The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it.…

— John Steinbeck

This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.

— John Steinbeck

A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers…

— John Steinbeck

And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind…

— John Steinbeck

“He always tell what it will be like someday." "Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does.”

— John Steinbeck