I just saw an ad the other day that I couldn't believe. There was this woman-and I think it's degrading to womankind-she… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd… — Colin Blakemore Copy Share Image
For the lost are lost by nature, all your ideas of moral regeneration will make no difference, there is AN INNATE DETERMINISM,… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Your teacher cannot bridge the gap between what you know and what you want to know. For his words to ‘educate' you,… — Grace Llewellyn Copy Share Image
Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The neural basis for the self, as I see it, resides with the continuous reactivation of at least two sets of representations.… — António R. Damásio Copy Share Image
I can only guess that it made the world he went back to...strangely without meaning. Though he lived in it, though he… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively;… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
God in heaven sits on high and plays games with us. He has plenty to do up there, what with building worlds… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
When I'm going to do a Christmas album I had to put my mind in Christmas mode. I had to go back… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
There was something in the pages of these books that had the power to make him feel better about things, a life… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—and this is largely… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I do not know what is happening. The reason of my waking mind tells me that great evil has befallen and we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I write, I never think of segments as chapters; I think of them as scenes. I always visualize them in my… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Howard resented the ache in his heart. He resented that it was there every morning when he woke up... He resented equally… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
When the great religious and philosophical conceptions were alive, thinking people did not extol humility and brotherly love, justice and humanity because… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
I try to turn most things into an exercise. Sometimes, I can't get a workout in, so I will do things like… — Regina King Copy Share Image
I think men of science as well as other men need to learn from Christ, and I think Christians whose minds are… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
I know a painting so evanescent that it is seldom viewed at all except by some wandering deer. It is a river… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I can make the earth stop in its tracks. I made the blue cars go away. I can make myself invisible or… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
“He tried to calm his thoughts, but everything came back to what he'd almost done. Because he hadn't done anything, for years… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“He remembered the moment when his thoughts had inverted themselves—that shift from not being able to please everyone to not trying—and the… — Katherine Addison Copy Share Image
The idea that you would read Jesmyn Ward for credentials is, like, you've missed the point of the beauty of her writing… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
I trailed off.Patch leaned lazily against the counter. Dark hair flipped out from under his ball cap. A smile tugged at his… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Someone once inquired of a Far Eastern Zen master, who had a great serenity and peace about him no matter what pressures… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I think of the universe as the body of God, and the creative capability we see and can exhibit as the mind… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I just think that pop music is very interesting in how it can reach so many people. I like that I can… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
The Vimalakirti Sutra states that, when one seeks the Buddhas' emancipation in the minds of ordinary beings, one finds that ordinary beings… — Nichiren Copy Share Image
One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every… — Daniel Ortega Copy Share Image
The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry.… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
I contemplate the idea that maybe I'm an alcoholic. I get this occassionally, the need to define myself as something-or-the-other, and at… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image