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Mind Quotes by John Steinbeck
- I don’t mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don’t want to get nibbled to death. There’s a difference.
- Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.
- The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be…
- Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
- The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.
- This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.
- Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home. He knows we…
- Texas is not a state - it's a state of mind.
- A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.
- I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a…
- I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the…
- The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.
- I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great…
- These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them…
- After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed.…
- I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities sometimes concern facets…
- The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
- Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created…
- And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would…
- Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time…
- He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't…
- Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.
- She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant…
- Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.
- The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.
More Mind Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle