Mind Quotes - Page 320

No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

Light, the visible reminder of Invisible Light.

Repentance is the virtue of weak minds.

A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.

A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind.

For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation.

With respect to the development of powers devoted to coping with specific scientific and economic problems we may say that the child should be growing in manhood. With respect to sympathetic curiosity, unbiased responsiveness, and openness of mind, we may say that the adult should be growing in childlikeness.

Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.

We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.

The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.

With this in mind, for some twenty years I have set myself as my particular task the experimental investigation of the connexion between change in the structure and change in the spectra of chemical atoms.

Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.

Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

Invention requires an excited mind; execution, a calm one.

The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.

We don't know why we are here and . . . our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. [And] it's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets.

To generate great power you must first totally relax and gather your strength, and then concentrate your mind and all your strength on hitting your target.

she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist." "She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them.

Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.

The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has. Mere driving on the freeway is in no way the same as participating in it. Anyone can "drive" on the freeway, and many people with no vocation for it do, hesitating here and resisting there, losing the rhythm of the lane change, thinking about where they came from and where they are going. Actual participation requires total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over.

A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.