Mind Quotes - Page 286

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale

I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know?

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

Drop the whole subject and put it out of your mind and let your subconscious do its thing.

How poor a guide enthusiasm is when it is not informed with the mind and spirit of God.

If we make sure we stay in a state of conscious alertness for the next synchronicity, our minds stay on the positive and off our fear and doubt.

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense--the life of Blake or of Dante--taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music.

The self divided is precisely where the self is authentically located. . . We all have identity crises because a single identity is a delusion of the monotheistic mind. . . Authenticity is in the illusion, playing it, seeing through it from within as we play it, like an actor who sees through his mask and can only see in this way.

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the results of analysis in our minds.

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.

The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.

The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.

Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.

The quieting of our mind is a political act.

don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.

Use the power of your conscious & subconscious mind to create a vibrational match for the abundance you desire and deserve.

Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.

We approach Scripture with minds already formed by the mass of accepted opinions and viewpoints with which we have come into contact, in both the Church and the world....It is easy to be unaware that it has happened; it is hard even to begin to realize how profoundly tradition in this sense has moulded us.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolically or experimentally, or in any of the other modes that might (if I were good enough) get me a Pulitzer prize. I would write merely clearly and in this way establish a warm relationship between myself and my readers, and the professional critics-Well, they can do whatever they wish.

We ourselves introduce that order and regularity in the appearance which we entitle "nature". We could never find them in appearances had we not ourselves, by the nature of our own mind, originally set them there.