Mind Quotes · Page 274

I was interested in ideas, not merely visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.

— Marcel Duchamp

“Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic.”

— Toba Beta

I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.

— Bernard Beckett

I'm talented and I don't listen to people. I have a mind of my own.

— Amaal Mallik

The Darkest Minds tend to hide behind the most unlikely faces.

— Alexandra Bracken

Art is technique: a means by which to materialize the invisible realm of the mind.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

“My mind couldn't fit itself around the shape of his absence.”

— Lia Mills

“The mind of no man is a unit, but is a community of mental states that influence one another.”

— Charles Fort

Your billion-dollar ideas don't show up in the middle of dramatic distraction. They show up when you have the business and personal…

— Robin S. Sharma

Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an…

— Richard Corliss

Very quickly, very suddenly, words fell through my mind. They landed on the floor of my thoughts, and in there, down there,…

— Markus Zusak

“He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet,serious, and retiring manners, and…

— Jane Austen

First of all you are a writer, a writer is what you are, so it doesn't actually stop the moment you leave…

— Terry Pratchett

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely…

— Sara Teasdale

His [Andy warhol] films were way ahead of the times...and I'm not suggesting this has all necessarily been a good thing for…

— Bob Colacello

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to…

— Edith Hamilton

The minute I sit down and think 'Okay, this must be KID SAFE!' my Muse develops Tourrette's and goes to lunch with…

— Ursula Vernon

“Pausing on the threshold, he looked in, conscious not so much of the few familiar sticks of furniture - the trucklebed, the…

— Walter de la Mare

A lot of the strings that hold us like puppets are really inventions of our own minds. I'm not saying that there…

— John Taylor Gatto

Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A…

— Bruno Dumont

He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and…

— Daphne du Maurier

I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to…

— Maya Angelou

Whenever learners or those beyond learning awaken the mind, for the first time they plant one buddha-nature. Working with the four elements…

— Dogen

Solve all your problems through meditation. Exchange unprofitable religious speculations for actual God-contact. Clear your mind of dogmatic theological debris; let in…

— Lahiri Mahasaya

The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist.

— Hannah Kent

No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

A change of heart is the essence of all other change, and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.

— Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

— Gary D. Schmidt

Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.

— Vance Havner

There is a vast region of enormous potential located somewhere between your ears.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

— Alfred North Whitehead

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

— Beatrice Wood

I saw a picture of Max Schreck as Count Orlok in a book in my elementary school and I lost my mind.

— Robert Eggers

Games are lost and won in your mind as much as they are on the field.

— Carl Deuker

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most [borrowed from Mark Twain]

— Gerard Way

The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are.

— Jack Kornfield

Stories about ourselves and about the world continually arise in our minds and shape our beliefs about reality.

— Tara Brach

“The only freedom you truly have is in your mind, so use it.”

— M.T. Dismuke

Whether anyone has ever changed their mind as a result of a celebrity endorsement of a candidate is a bit of a…

— Gavin Esler

The most important thing to keep in mind in being effective is focus.

— Jared Polis