[His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
“All he felt now was envy. These people had expectations. Of the world, of the future, it didn't matter--expectation was such an… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have, what you lack, or what you have too much… — Stephen Curry Copy Share Image
Continue to invest in your personal development. Expand your occupational horizons by constant study . . . look to your present job… — J. Richard Clarke Copy Share Image
Maybe philosophical problems are hard not because they are divine or irreducible or meaningless or workaday science, but because the mind of… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The word translated, koan, it means a problem. But it's a very special problem. And to strip it down to the way… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Talking about freedom, about ethical issues, about responsibilities as well as convenience, is asking people to think about things they might prefer… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
The mind, properly controlled, can do just about everything. You can think your way through adversity, you can think your way through… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
There did not have to be a moral. She need only show separate minds, as alive as her own, struggling with the… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The whole world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Far too often scripts are being written with race in mind, but the subject matter doesn't lend itself to any conversation on… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror… — Kealan Patrick Burke Copy Share Image
The mind is a mechanism. It has no intelligence. The mind is a bio-computer. How can it have any intelligence? It has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Idrith didn’t want to go back to his cold lonely room, with all its unanswered questions. He took the glass and sat… — Michelle Frost Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a day that goes by where I go to the supermarket that a woman doesn't come up and… — Ron Cephas Jones Copy Share Image
The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When my kids love my work, I feel elated and victorious; it means more to me than an Oscar. And when they… — Hrithik Roshan Copy Share Image
Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Painting dissolves the forms at its command, or tends to; it melts them into color. Drawing, on the other hand, goes about… — Alexander Eliot Copy Share Image
He was an Afghan Hound name Kabul. Since him I have had other Afghan Hounds… Perhaps I am looking for his ghost.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I also came to see that liberalism's superficial optimism concerning human nature caused it to overlook the fact that reason is darkened… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between; in doubt to act… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If that happens to us," she whispered, unable to wrap her mind around the idea of a life so long and so… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
There is no danger if our prayer is without words or reflection because the good success of prayer depends neither on words… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Christ used the flesh and blood of Mary for his life on earth, the Word of love was uttered in her heartbeat.… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
In a world suffering from mental stress, yoga promises calm. In a distracted world, yoga creates focus, creates concentration. In a world… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I John Hancock, . . . being advanced in years and being of perfect mind and memory-thanks be given to God-therefore calling… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. Yet you are still in great company - the Numen and your Genius… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
When I finally got together with Rostropovich as a student, he was very focused, almost entirely focused on the music itself, on… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
“When Carhart finally looked at his former partner and former friend, for the first time in years he wasn't struck by the… — Santino Hassell Copy Share Image
I don't read the reviews because it somewhere affects my work. If some critic doesn't like a movie, I can't keep his… — Gautham Menon Copy Share Image