“Do I shock you? I think I do. That’s the problem these days – nobody speaks their mind. No, don’t smile. They… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“I visualized myself pulling on my mental thinking cap, jamming it down around my ears as I had taught myself to do.… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
The completion of a rigorous course in mathematics - it is not even necessary that the student does well in such a… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Poetry is essentially the antithesis of Metaphysics: Metaphysics purge the mind of the senses and cultivate the disembodiment of the spiritual; Poetry… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“Without God’s command there will be no force in your instructions and there will be no room for them in the mind… — Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond Copy Share Image
“I still didn't know very much about the complex coping mechanism that had helped me survive my childhood. It was as if… — Olga Trujillo Copy Share Image
“Woke up from a Nightmare, realised my Life is Made of Dreams of Sunshine anyway, so maybe the Balance was thus, Happinesses… — Debatrayee Banerjee Copy Share Image
“PCA- (Psychological Character Assassination) Is when someone changes from who they are and start living their lives, according to the standards of… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“As a pauper, the obvious destination for James Tilly Matthews was the Bethlem Hospital, already long known in popular slang as Bedlam.… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
“What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text, in the face and behaviour of children, babes, and even brutes! That divided… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters: judgment is but the extent of the light… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
But it's the wrestler who can put the fatigue out of his mind and break through the "wall," like a marathon runner… — Lou Banach Copy Share Image
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous;… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Nature is objective, and nature is knowable, but we can only view her through a glass darkly and many clouds upon our… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Skullcrack City messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I'm a longtime fan of… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
“A bookseller," said Grandfather, "is the link between mind and mind, the feeder of the hungry, very often the binder up of… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“When you assume you make a you-know-what out of U and me. Yep, so let's stop assuming so much. We are often… — David Leonhardt Copy Share Image
“Words are a powerful aphrodisiac. They have the ability to awaken emotion, to excite the minds and senses. The right words entice,… — Shan O' Connor Copy Share Image
“What you seem so unwilling to accept, even now, is this: that the ideals which supported the old republic had no correspondence… — John Williams Copy Share Image
ADD sucks during training, but coming into finals I actually feel such an energy burst because when I step out on to… — Justin Gatlin Copy Share Image
I don't have too much interest in teaching other people how to get rich. And that isn't because I fear the competition… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
“The secure attachment of Western psychology is actually akin to Buddhist non-attachment; avoid-ant attachment is the inverse of being mindful and present;… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
In my view, madness is a place. You go. You come back. And I think we all take turns being the mental… — Carol O'Connell Copy Share Image
There's so many people in the music business or even in general who will tell you that you can't do this or… — Jeremy Davis Copy Share Image
Although I have no objection to accepting the existence of relatively constant psychic contents that survive personal ego, it must always be… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
“You must be aware of the words, thoughts, and beliefs that you are constantly feeding your subconscious mind. It does no good… — Bohdi Sanders Copy Share Image
“Unlike them, however, her path was not through daring deeds or the study of magic or the use of miraculous powers. She… — William Joyce Copy Share Image
I'm really proud of the way that 'Pose' has brought people's families together and touched people's hearts and opened people's minds. It's… — Indya Moore Copy Share Image
“The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand or fearful clinging to the past on the other. It… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“To Jana's mind everybody seemed happy to see BAbichka and resisted returning her, like a misplaced package sent to the wrong address.… — F.C. Malby Copy Share Image
“On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Whatever you eye falls on - for it will fall on what you love - will lead you to the questions of… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
I read to learn, tech myself stuff and teach myself math and do complex formulas, and it's very, very tough, but I… — Jeff Kendrick Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, [...]; and… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“There are three mental states that interest me. These are: one, amnesia; two, euphoria; three, ecstasy. Amnesia is not knowing who one… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
“As the video game designer and writer James Wallis puts it, “Human beings like stories. Our brains have a natural affinity not… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he… — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
“Everyone around us sees themselves as essentially different from others, and from life in general. So we move in a world where… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image