All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them. — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
I never, ever drink while writing. Never have from the start, and I'm happy that I never have to. A lot of… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
That's how it is online—there's no time in cyberspace. It's almost like everything physical evaporates, and it's just your mind and the… — Tim Tharp Copy Share Image
There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The name 'Clara' is significant in my life. When I was an adolescent and started thinking about my place in the world… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of all questions. Then… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We musicians, like everyone else, are numb with sorrow at this murder, and with rage at the senselessness of the crime. But… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
One of the great unresolved psychological enigmas of the modern western world is the question of what or who has persuaded us… — Philip Sherrard Copy Share Image
... nothing seems completely to differentiate the poor but poverty. We find no adjectives to fit them, as a whole, only those… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
Concentrate and think upon the problem in mind until a satisfactory conclusion is reached, and then finally go ahead. If you have… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I kind of miss the old sleazy Times Square, in a way. And yet I don't mind not being accosted by all… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body,… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.” — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
I don't know what to think of the money. It's kind of mind-boggling. I come from a middle-class, blue-collar family. We've never… — Pat Burrell Copy Share Image
The idea I'd been toying with fully formed in my mind. "I'm plotting." "oh?" His mouth curved in a wicked grin. "Do… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
O soul, be patient: thou shalt find A little matter mend all this; Some strain of music to thy mind, Some praise… — Robert Bridges Copy Share Image
The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be… — Chin-Ning Chu Copy Share Image
I'm a conservative because I believe in peace - real peace, not just the peace of mind. I'm a conservative because we… — Allen West Copy Share Image
A ward, and still in bonds, one day I stole abroad; It was high spring, and all the way Primrosed and hung… — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Some guys need to see things on a grease board, ... I like when you can see it in your mind. And… — Peyton Manning Copy Share Image
Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But that from us aught should ascend to Heav'n So prevalent as to concern the mind Of God, high-bless'd, or to incline… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The person of power uses their power to open up their mind to higher levels all the time, which creates tremendous happiness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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