Mind Quotes - Page 307

remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.

I had my back waxed once by two women... and at one point they said, Do you mind if we take a break?

Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.

I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.

Whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however, innocent it may be in itself.

That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.

Keep an open mind---but not so open your brain falls out.

Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

A noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow.

By wit we search divine aspect above, By wit we learn what secrets science yields, By wit we speak, by wit the mind is rul'd, By wit we govern all our actions; Wit is the loadstar of each human thought, Wit is the tool by which all things are wrought.

I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day.

And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair. Wha does the utmost that he can Will whyles do mair.

Oh, the things that go through my mind that I never say. Oh, the things I say that never go through my mind.

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

The mind's ability to rationalize it's own shortcomings is unlimited; I am no exception.

In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little minds, the only thing that I have learned for certain about women is that when a gal is gonna, she's gonna. All a man can do is cooperate with the inevitable.

I feel that there are great minds up there who would like to see what I can do with an Oscar nomination. I guess many people would change after a nomination in the way they see things. In my case it's really irrelevant in terms of what I do. Still, it was an incredible experience which I will put in my memories, like everything else.

For me, when I have the opportunity to exhibit abroad, I feel that the public understands some points I have raised and are open-minded and make an effort to understand my work, but there are still certain things that remain inaccessible.

They call me Ricky Fatton. Mind you I've had a lot on my plate recently. I got measured for this suit the other week. They measured my pants, jacket, top to bottom. Bloody hell Ricky you're a Mark F they said, a size up from a marquee.

There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as my picture unfolded, it emphatically suggested another direction... I always accept the risk and go for it. I'm convinced that at such times my painting is wiser than I am.

If the body had been easier to understand, nobody would have thought that we had a mind.

I refuse to make a decision that somebody else can make. The first rule of leadership is to save yourself for the big decision. Don't allow your mind to become cluttered.

It is good to keep in mind ... that nobody has ever succeeded in producing even one new species by the accumulation of micromutations. Darwin's theory of natural selection has never had any proof, yet it has been universally accepted.

My mind is open to the most wonderful range of future possibilities, which I cannot even dream about.

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection.