Mind Quotes - Page 285

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.

The mind is the most important thing of the big picture and no one has a stronger mindset than amateur wrestlers.

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.

You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.

Quitting doesn't enter my mind.

The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it.

Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into what is meditation, the mind must free itself from what it has learnt about meditation, and the freeing of the mind from what it has learnt is the beginning of meditation.

Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?

Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.

Find out for yourself what are the possesions and ideals that you do not desire. By knowing what you do not want, by elimination, you will unburden the mind, and only then will it understand the essential which is ever there.

Love is not of the mind, it is not in the net of thought, it cannot be sought out, cultivated, cherished; it is there when the mind is silent and the heart is empty of the things of the mind.

I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the symbols in this image and any content that I have in mind.

For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a fancy nor a threat, but you are dragged to the rack, and you are tortured, and there is no marvelous rescue at the last moment, no awakening as from a bad dream. He felt it as a foreboding which struck him with terror.

The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.

You can achieve a shallow local maximum with A/B testing - but you'll never win hearts and minds.

I am confident that we can do better than GUIs because the basic problem with them (and with the Linux and Unix interfaces) is that they ask a human being to do things that we know experimentally humans cannot do well. The question I asked myself is, given everything we know about how the human mind works, could we design a computer and computer software so that we can work with the least confusion and greatest efficiency?

The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens.

All day my mind drifts off into fantasies and little stupid jokes.

Words and action in movies are the spirit or the mind. And these days the body is almost completely forgotten. In the beginning the body - nature - was more part of the action.

Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.

Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all. He would have fared better had he died young.

A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.