Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I use both instruments with their strengths in mind. Mandolin - no sustain and attack of the right hand, for rhythm. Fiddle… — Sam Bush Copy Share Image
I soon learned how to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside everything else, from… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Being ready is state of mind... It's a mentality. Do you think your the best in the world? Do you work hard… — Urijah Faber Copy Share Image
I don't really like listening to so much rap because I like to have my mind focused on what I'm doing instead… — Mustard Copy Share Image
One of the most important keys to getting through to anyone and then influencing them is to realize that inside everyone's mind,… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Brought up a Presbyterian, indoctrinated from the Catechism, and being naturally of an inquiring mind, I fell a ready prey to the… — Charles Taze Russell Copy Share Image
There are various forms of weaponry, intellectual weaponry, spiritual weaponry, political weaponry, economic weaponry. Because we are on the battlefield, and there… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
When, over fifty years ago, I first became interested in economics - as a discipline that provided the key to social structure… — Simon Kuznets Copy Share Image
It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Stephen Hawking won [Babson Institute competition ] one year with his black hole stuff. It's keeping an open mind on whether gravity… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“You may travel the whole world, but you'll not find true religion anywhere. Whatever there is, it is in your own mind.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
Five is for five heartbeats, the length of time it takes to breathe in or out. For that is how quickly a… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
When a film does well, everyone is usually happy and grateful, but for me, the impression the film leaves upon my mind… — Jim Sarbh Copy Share Image
Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
For too long, we've assumed that there is a single template for human nature, which is why we diagnose most deviations as… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“And the truth was that he was not afraid of being seen for what he was. He was afraid of being seen… — Roshani Chokshi Copy Share Image
whiskey makes the heart beat faster but it sure doesn't help the mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Chemotherapy is such a hard, hard kiss. Anything we can do to alleviate its side effects should be intelligently explored with an… — Diane Ladd Copy Share Image
Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Working nine to five, what way to earn a living. Barely getting by... It's all taking and no giving. They use just… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
By looking into physical causes our minds are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit, whether we take or whether we lose… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“He had to die someday too. He might do it on sheets with a six-hundred-plus thread count, but he'd die just the… — John H. Matthews Copy Share Image
Generally, when I wake up in the morning I set out a series of problems for myself and I write them down,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it's exciting to… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
“He could really fool the shit out of himself. A guy had to be careful about creating his own reality. Because you… — Anne Frasier Copy Share Image
“I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to 'make them alive'…but… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm dealing with so much business, and my mind will be so stressed, that I'll go a week without writing... But… — Lil B Copy Share Image
Abjure all accretions and turn off the lights. Put on some music - Leonard Cohen, say, perhaps his 'Various Positions' - and… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“...my ability to trust had been shattered into splinters, its fragmented shards slicing through every darkened recess of my mind, his absolution… — Jake Wood Copy Share Image
Nissan is designing a car that will read the driver's mind. I already know what I'm going to do. I want a… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
You use the body as a medium to bring the mind back to the brain. Perfect married between body and mind. Then,… — Bikram Choudhury Copy Share Image
Divine service, being the high contemplation of the mind, is at the same time, and pre-eminently, the peace, the sweetness and blessedness… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image