Own Mind Quotes

402 Own Mind quotes by 292 unique authors

At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark… — Thomas Merton
The essence of leadership is making up your own mind and then being able to take other people with you. — Eva Cox
To write good SF today...you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the strange and terrible… — Gardner Dozois
This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it. Some days you don't want… — Natalie Goldberg
No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind. — Selma LagerlÃ¶f
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of… — Charles Dudley Warner
It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own… — H. L. Mencken
No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us. Some of the… — Jim Butcher
But what is madness, if not being able to control your own mind? — Unknown Author
He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten or twenty times… — Stephen King
[Perfection] is only possible if the mind of man is changed, if he, of his own sweet will, changes his mind; and the great difficulty… — Swami Vivekananda
When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself. — Swami Vivekananda
The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your amazement, you can… — Tim Wynne-Jones
You are the master of your environment. You've got your own head, your own mind. So once you figure out what you want for yourself,… — Tyrese Gibson
America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see. — Ajay Naidu
I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions. — Rivka Galchen
From a very young age, my parents taught me the most important lesson of my whole life: They taught me how to listen. They taught… — Steven Spielberg
There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own… — Charles Dudley Warner
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we… — Philip K. Dick
Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind. — Bob Dylan
Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind… — Joan Didion
Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still more… — Charles Babbage
I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have… — PJ Harvey
I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else's control. I feel that what I'm thinking and saying is now… — Malcolm X
The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind. — Napoleon Hill

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