Mind Quotes · Page 483

The mind is the slayer of the real, let the disciples slay the slayer.

— H. P. Blavatsky

All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time.

— Eli Wallach

I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.

— Pierre Dukan

The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

You can lose your ability to play romantic scenes... you have to ensure that your mind is in the right place.

— Genie Francis

In whosever presence you find peace of mind, devoid of fear, only that person can be your guru.

— Ilaiyaraaja

As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.

— Chika Anadu

Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.

— Jack Kornfield

“Martin was swept up in the sound—no longer blood and bone, frozen feet and hungry belly, but an empty vessel filling with…

— Jessica Shattuck

Mental happiness is more important than physical comfort. Physical comfort comes from the material. But material facilities cannot provide you with peace…

— Anonymous

Clary: Now that I'm in your mind, want to see some mental pictures of Jace? Simon: I heard that and NO... You've…

— Cassandra Clare

I definitely think women are running it right now. We are not afraid to speak our minds. It's exciting because that's what…

— Kesha

“It was a difficult ride for him. He had passed this way before, to bury John Root. The fair had begun with…

— Erik Larson

He is older than me, and before I started MMA I watched many of his fights. In my mind I want to…

— Islam Makhachev

We must always bear in mind that the primary purpose of our work is not to get people to join a church,…

— R. A. Torrey

For, in truth, an image is only dead matter shaped by the craftsman's hand. But we have no sensible image of sensible…

— Clement of Alexandria

“I realized clearly, perhaps for the first time, what strained and anxious lives dogs must lead, so emotionally involved in the world…

— Anonymous

“Most of us probably fall several times a day into a fit somewhat like this: The eyes are fixed on vacancy, the…

— William James

For me, collages manage to - it satisfies all of my madness, like I'm able to make these obsessive things, but then…

— Wangechi Mutu

“Now he experienced a feeling akin to that of a man whom while calmly crossing a bridge over a precipice, should suddenly…

— Leo Tolstoy

But just as it sometimes happens that the most temperate people, who have never acquired the habit of drinking alcohol, or even…

— Rebecca West

An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge; words are the cables that hold up the bridge. Images are…

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

This is a good thing to say to film students. If there's a story point that you don't feel right about, that…

— Annette Bening

People have a right to change their minds and it has absolutely nothing to do with you. People change. As people change,…

— Iyanla Vanzant

The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

— Chris Hedges

Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.

— Jean Piaget

I work out regularly because I don't see the mind and body as that separate.

— Jamie Hyneman

I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.

— Oscar Isaac

I became a reader - never mind a writer - because of Stephen King.

— Paul G. Tremblay

“They’ve already wrapped around his heart, squeezing, and making him ache.”

— Leta Blake

I prepare so no one can take what is mine, no one can replace my mind, my heart.

— Ray Lewis

Prophecy is an intercept from the mind of an all-knowing and all-seeing and all-powerful God.

— Joel C. Rosenberg

There are no rules in life. It’s a mind-set that limits people dramatically.

— Tara Stiles

“He had become her whole world,a way out of the prison of her own mind.”

— Lynn Matheson

I think when you exercise in open spaces, it kind of detoxifies your body and gives you peace of mind.

— Nushrat Bharucha

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

— Brian Tracy

I couldn't think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow's leaders.

— Al Franken

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

— Edmund Burke

I was really talented at football and my mind was opened up by it.

— Joey Barton

Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.

— Mahatma Gandhi