It took 10 years before I got any kind of recognition, with the 'Tightrope' series in the '60s. Until that time I… — Mike Connors Copy Share Image
“Preposterous ass, that never read so far To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That a man can change himself…and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
“I must make you one confession,” Ivan began. “I could never understand how one can love one's neighbors. It's just one's neighbors,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of artwork. It… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
I've always told my children that once they go out into the world, they must have two heads and two minds: one… — Claudette Colvin Copy Share Image
My degree was in Depth Psychology and Religion, so I can really speak directly about pop American psychology masquerading as Yoga. — Gary Kraftsow Copy Share Image
Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; Though fraught with all… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“But I felt them...hungry shadows who knew my name, clawing at my mind and my soul to be let in - and… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“If it were said that without such bones and sinews and all the rest of them I should not be able to… — Socrates Copy Share Image
With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“When young Black boys learn that there are no limits to our possibilities on the basketball courts, we create the athletic genius… — Na'im Akbar Copy Share Image
There are minds constructed like the eyes of certain insects, which discern, with admirable distinctness, the most delicate lineaments and finest veins… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
“Tolstoy’s interest in history began early in his life. It seems to have arisen not from interest in the past as such,… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Of course, if you have thought up to now that an actor relies merely on inspiration you will have to change your… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father, Because, in chief, it, only, can defend Against itself. At its mercy,… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“Morning. Vast. Imprecision. Fog has covered everything in gray absolute. This has lasted. Doubt looms over the mind. Absence is harder to… — Etel Adnan Copy Share Image
Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“Our individual consciousnesses were sieves of the divine. We could only know what our minds could encompass safely.” — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“I was stunned. He wasn't much of a talker in the best of times, but man, when he put his mind into… — Jay Crownover Copy Share Image
I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
I feel as if theres a need for you in my life. I want you at all times of the day because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you don’t have specific goals written down for your life, you are mentally malnourished. Your mind was designed to be fed… — Newberry, Tommy Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to… — Constance Reid Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of books in this world. One improves the mind, the other the bank balance. Sometimes they're the same… — Paula Gosling Copy Share Image
Okay, I admit it. My stomach aches, my heart skips a beat, and my mind goes in to overload, when I simply… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a natural firmness in some minds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to keep my mind and my body active. The tough part about it is that physically I'm sort of… — Terrell Davis Copy Share Image
Your mind is your life. It's your essence and your substance. It's the part of you that has always been and will… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you really care about someone, their mistakes never change your feelings because the mind gets angry, but the heart still cares. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“The body is an outstanding source of strength; the mind an incredible source of intelligence; the heart an uncommon source of might;… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
The ultimate quality of your life is not in your resume, but in the minds and hearts of those you mean something… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image