Mind Quotes · Page 450

If I sat around thinking about acting all day, I'd lose my mind.

— Rebecca Hall

“You can lead people where they have never gone if you get there in your mind first.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I didn't mind being a public executioner, once I got the hang of it.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When I race my mind is full of doubts - who will finish second, who will finish third?

— Noureddine Morceli

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

— Anonymous

Our greatest natural resources are our hearts and minds, together with those of the people around us.

— Diane Dreher

“The poor wretch was doubtless torturing himself, after the manner of the insane, with needless thoughts of pain.”

— Bram Stoker

Whether we know it or not, our minds and hearts are populated by all the characters we will ever need - though…

— David Corbett

Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.

— Mary Baker Eddy

A playful mind is inquisitive, and learning is fun. If you indulge your natural curiosity and retain a sense of fun in…

— Bill Watterson

It's not just philosophy, not just words; it's knowing how the mind functions; only then can you develop loving-kindness; only then can…

— Thubten Yeshe

Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all…

— Sam Wyly

Dream up big, hairy, audacious goals that you are passionate about and pursue them relentlessly. You have to begin with the end…

— Clay Clark

Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined.

— Niall Ferguson

I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this…

— Tupac Shakur

Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.…

— Lewis Carroll

Funny how people don't really see each other. Men and women. They invent each other in their minds and then they see…

— Andrew Klavan

I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“He was astonished at how calm he found he was. Fear of death had always energised him, making him move far more…

— K.J. Parker

I never want to be that guy spouting off my political views. I mean, they're pretty well known, and it certainly comes…

— Patterson Hood

It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public;…

— Charles Darwin

To find this greater truth about God, Spirit, and the sacred, we must often set aside the limiting impressions from our childhood.…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

For a while I thought about studying medicine at school and becoming a doctor because I've always been interested in psychology and…

— Rumer Willis

The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.

— Frank Herbert

She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.

— Louisa May Alcott

Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your mind may be the center of all your thoughts, but your heart is the reason for all your actions.

— Anonymous

“If you don’t learn to control your mind, your mind will control you.”

— Ehab Atalla

Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

— Anonymous

Anger is poison. You must purge it from your mind or else it will corrupt your better nature.

— Christopher Paolini

Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that's the end of suffering.

— Byron Katie

“The past was something that had happened to another version of himself, a version that could be lit and hurled away.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.

— D. Wayne Calloway

It is as important to monitor your mind constantly as it is to sit down and practice meditation.

— Frederick Lenz

You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one,…

— Doris Roberts

Fantasy is only a state of mind that you can employ when existing in a real context.

— Woody Allen

“Now, he numbly stands stock-still, in abject fear that this whole catastrophe may well be his doing.”

— Dawn French

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

— Margaret Cho