Mind Quotes - Page 254

Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs.

Judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart.

Never underestimate the power of the mind, the importance of love and faith, and never stop dreaming.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.

You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be.

We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.

The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.

Mindfulness is the primary tool in that we get a little space between ourselves and the thoughts and then we actually can be more responsive, as in: Do I want to listen to that? Do I want to ignore it? Do I want to say "no thank you". Do I want to inquire if that's really true or helpful? So we start with mindfulness and we're not engaging, because as soon as we do that, we've given the critic authority. Instead, we want to notice the critic but not give it any attention, not really give it much value.

The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.

Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of Heaven. Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell.

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.

I am not doctor who and I can't turn back time. I once said the audience was all punks and little girls, now they are old punks and old little girls. I don't mind the fans being maturer, if there are younger fans that's good too.

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions

I'm always working on something. I wish I had more time for free-thinking and brainstorming new ideas. That's not to say my mind doesn't wander, but I find myself wishing for more of that kind of time.

Being blond is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blond has some incredible sort of sexual connotation.

The fact of the matter is that you can use your beauty and use your charm and be flirtatious, and you can get people interested in your beauty. But you cannot maintain that. In the end, talent is the only thing. My work is the only thing that's going to change any minds.

My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood.

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset.

I hope I will live to see a final meeting of the minds between Puerto Rico and statehood. But if I don’t live that long, I am certain it will happen.

For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beastsbut rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace.