“Terry was cool, cooler then Ig would ever be, but he was afraid. His fear narrowed his vision so that he couldn't… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
To endeavor all one's days to fortify one's mind with learning and philosophy, is to spend so much in armor that one… — Robert Dodsley Copy Share Image
When I saw Air Boom perform, I went out of my mind. It was two guys with high-octane offence forming a team.… — Tyson Kidd Copy Share Image
I have a rule: before I can throw anything out, I have to write down five possible uses for it. This stretches… — Anna Olson Copy Share Image
Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together -… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Open the curtains of your mind! If there is light outside, it will come in; if there is light inside, it will… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to… — Amilcar Cabral Copy Share Image
Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic than you can possibly imagine. A human mind can only contain a tiny fraction… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
Four hundred year old trees, who draw aliveness from the earth like smoke from the heart of God, we come, not knowing… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful… — William James Copy Share Image
What is necessary for 'the very existence of science,' and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
None but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Lecturing is that mysterious process by means of which the contents of the note-book of the professor are transferred through the instrument… — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
Something is happening because of silence, because of peace, because of silence; if your mind is silent, if your mind is quiet,… — H. W. L. Poonja Copy Share Image
Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
She’d already decided to be with him. If only to wipe him from her mind, get him out of her system and… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments. — Daniel Okrent Copy Share Image
“There was a time when I could have slept with his friend Briffa, for instance. Around him the air was always fraught… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I don't mind either one [crowd that is more willing to interact or crowd that's more ready to just watch]. Both of… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I don't believe that many things are impossible to achieve so long as you put your mind to it and take the… — Cynthia Erivo Copy Share Image
That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
“respond rather than react to situations, people or environment. Let go of limiting emotions such as fear, frustration and anger and start… — Avis Williams Copy Share Image
Teaching is not the mere imparting of information but the cultivation of an inquiring mind which will penetrate into the question of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Little minds try to defend everything at once, but sensible people look at the main point only; they parry the worst blows… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Of course the job has a lot of glamour. But it really is about being smarter than your average bear. Your mind… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
For Henry James, class was 'the essentially hierarchial plan of English society' which was 'the great and ever-present fact to the mind… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
When you're sitting down and you're blocked and you just start writing and something in your mind just clicks, you start seeing… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Pursue your goals with all your heart, might, mind and strength. You are doomed to failure if you pursue them in a… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe,… — Charles Sturt Copy Share Image
May I examine my mind in all actions and as soon as a negative state occurs, since it endangers myself and others,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
“Open your mind to the infinite possibilities that exist for you. Born through your dreams, crystallised into form by your desires, given… — steven redhead Copy Share Image